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ForumsLinx is a small, free and portable application designed to benchmark an Intel CPU in GFlops and to test the stability of a CPU.
Linx supports both 32 and 64 bit operating systems and Single, Dual & Quad Core CPUs. While I was reviewing this application to see if its worthy of becoming the repair tool of the week, it happily maxed out all 4 cores of my QuadCore system at 100% to the point where everything loaded very slowly, but my OS remained stable.
There has even been a well known member on our forums writing a few posts (1, 2) about how this application saved him in a few hard-to-diagnose situations.
This application is a great way to really stress test a CPU so it is defnitely worth adding to your toolkit.
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Downloads:
Download from Youwatched – 1.32mb
Download from Technibble – 1.32mb
Sounds like another good stress testing tool. I also use CPUStabTest, HeavyLoad and prime95
It looks like the Technibble mirror has only the CLI version?
Can someone cite more examples of when this tool might be useful?
Larry: stress test tools are good for determining if a system is completely stable or not. They can check to see if CPU temperatures are getting to high while under a full load. Some test RAM, GPU, and CPU. OCCT is another decent one. Some of the programs will take longer to stress your system. For instance prime95 is suggested to be used for about 24 hours to make sure a system is fully stable. While OCCT only takes an hour to test your system. Each one is different in what it will stress but the general idea is the same. Not a bad idea to use different ones to check stability.
Definitely one of my favourite tools. I also use it to stress test all of my custom-built computers.
This seems like something that needs to be on my boot cd.
(thought you meant to say lynx at first… sometimes when all you have is a command line it will save your life!)
IntelBurnTest-Legacy is another compilation of LinX + GUI. You should run it on 64-bit, and use as much memory as possible.
Is there something that is of AMD equivalent ?
Somethin’ to stress test AMD processors?
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New version is out.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=201670
To Methical:
both Intel and AMD CPU support (thanks Right from forums.overclockers.ru for that)