Stress testing your CPU is a great way to ensure that your overclock is stable, check that your cooling is powerful enough, or run in some new heat paste that you've applied to your processor. But ...

...without being run in Windows? I have a bootable USB drive with the latest Hiren's on it, and I'll be running memtest86+ overnight to test my RAM, but I don't know of any program for stress testing ...

CPU Temps during Prime 95 stress test Ostascio Jul 17, 2004 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...

Stress Testing, in this scenario, includes the execution of a series of tests or processes on the system hardware, more specifically, the CPU. The tests aim to make the processor run at maximum power ...