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Below are links to software tools to benchmark and stress your system to check for system stability or bragging rights. Using this software may over stress and/or damage your system, use these programs at your own risk.

Monitoring/Information Tools

• Open Hardware Monitor
  A free open source software that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer.
• CPU-Z
  freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system
• GPU-Z
  GPU-Z is a lightweight system utility designed to provide vital information about your video card
• CrystalDiskInfo
  Provides information about Hard Drives, SSD, or NVMe

Windows Benchmark / System Stress Tools

• AIDA64 Extreme
  An industry-leading system information tool, loved by PC enthusiasts around the world, which provides extremely detailed information about hardware and offers benchmarks to measure the performance of the computer.
• OCCT
  Stability testing software
• FurMark
  FurMark is a lightweight but very intensive graphics card / GPU stress test
• Prime65
  CPU Stress Test. But actually Mersenne Prime Search Software
• Cinebench R20
  Cinebench is a real-world cross-platform test suite that evaluates your computer’s hardware capabilities
• CrystalDiskMark
  Simple disk benchmark software

Linux Benchmark / System Stress Tools

Linux’s stress or stress-ng

# Debian/Ubuntu Install
sudo apt install stress
sudo apt install stress-ng

# RedHat/Fedora/Rocky/Alma Linux Install
sudo yum install stress
sudo yum install stress-ng

# run tests - stress
sudo stress --cpu  [--io <# of IO workers> --vm <# of memory workers> --vm-bytes ] --timeout 
sudo stress --cpu 8 [--io 3 --vm 2 --vm-bytes 1024M] --timeout 120s

# run tests - stress-ng
sudo stress-ng [--all <# of workers] --cpu  [--cpu-method ] [--hdd  --hdd-ops  --vm <# of memory workers> --vm-bytes ] --timeout  [--metrics-brief #summary]

Additional Resources for: Stress or Stress-ng:

• Arch Linux Wiki – stress
• Arch Linux Wiki – stress-ng