Software to give my machine a good workout?

deadfingers · 07-09-2005 11:40am #1

Hey I have problem where a guy gave me his laptop and told me that it keeps crashing. I have taken a look at it and it seems fine a bit slow but its an old machine. I was just wondering is there any software out there that will give the laptop a good processing workout as I feel the laptop only crashes when there is a large amount of processing being done.

TerrorFirmer · 07-09-2005 11:48am

Install a game that requires a minimum spec of whatever the laptop has at its disposal. Or a game that's close enough.

Sgtshaft · 07-09-2005 1:07pm

Prime95 just run the torture test any flaky machine will go belly up within minutes if not seconds.

Khannie · 07-09-2005 1:45pm

seti@home is also good.

blorg · 07-09-2005 6:20pm

www.ultimatebootcd.com has a good range of tests that can check out all the various components, CPU, memory, etc.

The website has links to all the individual components as well if you don't want to download the whole thing, e.g. CPU Burn-in for the CPU, Memtest for the memory, etc.

mp3guy · 07-09-2005 6:32pm

McAfee, Norton... internet explorer, windows media player,

Tony H · 07-09-2005 8:07pm

http://folding.stanford.edu
folding at home will give any computer a good workout , just change the settings to let the programme have 100% of the processing power

Thomas_S_Hunterson · 07-09-2005 8:08pm

mp3guy wrote:

McAfee, Norton... internet explorer, windows media player,

Sad but true,

Software to give my machine a good workout?

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