New PC: After Building

[ButthurtTumbleweed]

So I'm building a new PC soon.

I have heard that I should stress test my parts and make sure everything is working fine before I do anything big. (I plan on a liquid cooling loop and don't want to take it apart if a part doesn't work)

 

How do I do that?

[Rodneyg87]

So I'm building a new PC soon.

I have heard that I should stress test my parts and make sure everything is working fine before I do anything big. (I plan on a liquid cooling loop and don't want to take it apart if a part doesn't work)

 

How do I do that?

Build the system outside the case using the stock intel cpu cooler and do your stress tests there then if they pass build it in the case with your water cooling loop. Or what most people do is build the system inside the case using the stock cooler and do their testing then add the water cooling components and do their overclocks then and redo the stress tests to verify the overclock is stabile.

[SImoHayha]

There is no point in stress testing your parts once you first get them personally it doesn't make any sense what so ever to do so unless you plan on overclocking your CPU.

[ButthurtTumbleweed]

There is no point in stress testing your parts once you first get them personally it doesn't make any sense what so ever to do so unless you plan on overclocking your CPU.

Actually, I am

[ButthurtTumbleweed]

Build the system outside the case using the stock intel cpu cooler and do your stress tests there then if they pass build it in the case with your water cooling loop. Or what most people do is build the system inside the case using the stock cooler and do their testing then add the water cooling components and do their overclocks then and redo the stress tests to verify the overclock is stabile.

This was my plan, but how do I actually stress test it?

[Fgtfv567]

This was my plan, but how do I actually stress test it?

You'll need to download a stress-testing program like AIDA 64 (but it does way more)

[ButthurtTumbleweed]

You'll need to download a stress-testing program like AIDA 64 (but it does way more)

Thanks! I'll look into it.