Software for Stress Testing

[Pendragon]

I'm curious about how long I should run stress test software and which ones to run on my laptop. I'm going to do some repasting and undervolting and I realized I probably shouldn't run like a 24 hour Prime95 + Furmark on my laptop as that would probably kill it in the long run. Any suggestions or recommended time to stress the CPU or GPU?

[desertcomputer]

Why you stress testing your laptop? you shouldnt really need to overclock your laptop cpu or gpu... 

[Pendragon]

3 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

I'm going to do some repasting and undervolting

I need to test gains and stability from undervolting

[Curufinwe_wins]

1 minute ago, Pendragon said:

I need to test gains and stability from undervolting

Intel XTU. Has its own stress tests and benchmarks.

[Pendragon]

1 minute ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

Intel XTU

I would, but I needed to get the GPU as well as the XPS15 has both on the same cooling heatpipes. But for sure I will. How long do should I stress the computer for? That's mostly the question.

[Curufinwe_wins]

4 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

I would, but I needed to get the GPU as well as the XPS15 has both on the same cooling heatpipes. But for sure I will. How long do should I stress the computer for? That's mostly the question.

Use XTU to stress/cpu and monitor everything while using say 3dmark to stress the gpu (although stressing both at once is pointless and not a good idea as it is not representative of gaming loads at all).

 

I only do 15 minutes for undervolting. It isn't something I have had issues with (stability lines seem to be very clear). Additionally intel mobile cpus have a set time for their maximum boost which is like 120 or 300 seconds I think so when they down clock that step or two stability is guaranteed anyways.