Intel Burn Test and Prime95 are two of our favorite stress test utilities, and here's how you can use them to validate the stability of your CPU. Although stress testing is a relatively safe ...

Monitor your PC while stress testing to prevent hardware damage & know when to quit if necessary. Download HWMonitor or CoreTemp to check temperatures & CPU-Z/GPU-Z for clock speeds. Be cautious ...

Two are platform agnostic, and one is for Intel CPUs only. This “real world” CPU stress test will peg your CPU at 100% load for as long as the test runs. It's a great way to see what your CPU ...

If you're seeing that your CPU is routinely operating at much higher temperatures when idle or under stress than what we've outlined then your cooling solution may not be able to handle the core ...