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Hardware Testing Software

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Best Buy, Dell and all those other companies that sell PC’s typically have a hardware diagnostic program they use to test everything out. It’s not perfect and obviously won’t catch everything but I was wondering if there was a good program you could put on a usb drive and use to test a computer you’re buying from someone off of Offerup or Craigslist...without installing individual benchmarking programs like 3DMark or something and spending upwards of an hour in their house.

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Not that I am aware of.  There is risk in buying used and theres a reason there is risk (as you have noted).

 

Does it post to desktop (if you are buying with a clean OS)?

Does it post to BIOS?  (check temps there, if wonky or you don't know, educate what it *should* be in your areas ambient environment)

In bios check the RAM situation (recognized, what speeds)

In bios check the Storage situation (recognized, as advertised capacity - check in OS as well)

What does device manager say about the GPU?  

 

All in all, and I don't buy used systems without some allowance for validation testing, I would demand that I can at least install CPU/GPU-Z (or they should have it installed ready) and do a few of those things before I would consider buying a system of anything not protecting the buyer, like Craigslist or Offerup.

 

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They are essentially running very light benchmark which compares results to baseline. There's benchmark you can boot and run of USB https://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/

That's closest you will get.

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