Stress tests to validate used hardwares' integrity

[79wjd]

I'm going to be buying some used hardware and wanted to know what stress tests to run and what's the likelihood of passing all the tests and having a problem down the road.

I was planning on running prime95, Aida64, and memtest86 for at least 24 hours.

Xeon e3 1230v2, supermicro c204, and four sticks of ECC memory.


Edit: spell check fucks with my title and now I forgot what word I meant to say.

[Goodman2265]

please dont use prime95 unless you plan on killing the CPU

[The_Stig]

Just get Intel Extreme Tuning Utility. It has both a CPU an RAM tester set to timers, allowing you to control exactly how long the test run.

[Guest Kloaked]

I personally don't even do 24 hours of stress testing if I had no issues on first post when putting the PC together. Even if I ran into an issue, it's probably because I forgot to plug in a cable, or plug it in all the way anyways, so nothing related to making sure something will be stable.

 

I just run stress tests to get reads on temperatures and hand them off to the people I built them for and ask them to let me know immediately if they run into any issues. I've done about 8 of these so far and never had any complaints, and I'm almost always using Xeon chips.

 

Though, I am using ASRock boards.

[79wjd]

please dont use prime95 unless you plan on killing the CPU

prime95 doesn't kill haswell let alone ivy ridge.

[Goodman2265]

prime95 doesn't kill haswell let alone ivy ridge.

I dont mean like legit kill in one go, It will shorten its life span tho

[79wjd]

Just get Intel Extreme Tuning Utility. It has both a CPU an RAM tester set to timers, allowing you to control exactly how long the test run.

I personally don't even do 24 hours of stress testing if I had no issues on first post when putting the PC together. Even if I ran into an issue, it's probably because I forgot to plug in a cable, or plug it in all the way anyways, so nothing related to making sure something will be stable.

 

I just run stress tests to get reads on temperatures and hand them off to the people I built them for and ask them to let me know immediately if they run into any issues. I've done about 8 of these so far and never had any complaints, and I'm almost always using Xeon chips.

 

Though, I am using ASRock boards.

And what's the likelihood that I'm able to pass all the tests but run into an issue in a month? 

 

Well, since I'd be buying used hardware I'd want to validate it some how. (HA!, that's the word I was using that spellcheck made me forget *sigh*). 

 

I dont mean like legit kill in one go, It will shorten its life span tho

Running a stress test isn't going to drastically affect the life of a cpu unless the cpu is going to be failing anyway. 

 

 

Also, if I get the receipts will I still be able to utilize the warranty on the hardware if I run into any issues (assuming I'm still within the warranty period)? 

[Guest Kloaked]

And what's the likelihood that I'm able to pass all the tests but run into an issue in a month? 

 

Well, since I'd be buying used hardware I'd want to validate it some how. (HA!, that's the word I was using that spellcheck made me forget *sigh*). 

 

I've never done a stress test longer than three hours and I haven't received any complaints. I was working with new, out of the box hardware so I'm not sure about used. Depends on the condition, but if it works it works y'know.