Benchmarking, stress testing and overall stability

[Chazdude42]

I got my new PC up and running (eventually) and I've clicked it up to 4.6GHz. I'm looking for software for benchmarking, stress testing etc. to make sure it's all stable and can handle the grunt of extensive use (which I'm sure I'll need for VR).

I want to push my computer a bit more, just to squeeze all the power I can out of it but I want to know it's worked, rather than hope I don't get a BSOD or fried chips...

Does anyone have any recommendations for software? Free stuff is always good but I don't mind paying if its worthwhile

PC spec for those that are curious:
Asus Maximus Viii Hero
i7 6700k @ 4.6GHz (oc)
Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR4 @ 3020MHz (oc)
Corsair H115i
Asus STRIX nvidia GTX 970 4GB
Corsair Force GT 120 GB SSD
WD Black edition 2TB HDD
Lots of Corsair fans

(Haven't worked out how to do pictures on the forum yet...)

[TeaLeaf]

I've used several over the years, but start with these:

Prime95 for your CPU.
SuperPi for single-thread performance on the CPU (often correlates well for single thread game performance).
MemTest for your RAM.
FurMark or Unigine's Valley for graphics.

These are all free, but you'd need to spend $20 on Unigine's Valley for the 'Advanced' version if you wanted to loop it.

HTH.

[Twyst]

Might be overkill, but I've found over the years, one of the best stress tests is to compile a load of open source software in bulk. Gentoo, NetBSD and any OS which supports pkgsrc allow parallel bulk builds (esp NetBSD) and will stress all CPU's, memory and disk IO. The only thing it won't stress is the GPU (and maybe the soundcard, but who clocks that anyway?) but we have games for that yes