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For pure CPU stress tests Prime95 is an excellent free option.

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What program shoud i use to stress test my cpu ? 

 

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Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 3.9 GHz 8-Core Processor $339.99 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML120L RGB 66.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $39.99 @ Newegg
Motherboard Gigabyte X570 I AORUS PRO WIFI Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard $219.00 @ Amazon
Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory $144.99 @ Amazon
Video Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB Founders Edition Video Card $1199.99 @ Best Buy
Case Cooler Master Elite 130 Mini ITX Tower Case $51.91 @ Amazon
Power Supply Asus ROG Strix 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $134.99 @ Amazon
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Hit it with Aida64 + Prime95 at the same time to test the CPU. Use MSI Kombustor to hit the GPU. HWInfo to monitor all temps.

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Use "prime95", its a stress test that runs as long as you want it to. Monitor your Temps etc with "hwinfo".

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For pure CPU stress tests Prime95 is an excellent free option.

Who needs fancy graphics and high resolutions when you can get a 60 FPS frame rate on iGPUs?

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I usually do prime95 and a couple runs of cinebench r20. Sometimes things are stable under prime 95 for hours but cinebench isn't. Also I always start with cinebench as it makes things go faster as it usually crashes the pc immediately rather than having to wait a half an hour before the cpu becomes unstable. 

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I used Prime95 but eventually trusted my stable OC with LinX

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