Benchmark/System Testing Tools

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 

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