Stress Tester for rMBP

[Squilly]

I've been looking for a little while now. Something along the lines of FurMark for Windows but for Mac. Does such a software exist to stress the CPU/GPU?

 

[robvas]

I've been looking for a little while now. Something along the lines of FurMark for Windows but for Mac. Does such a software exist to stress the CPU/GPU?

Still trying to unlock all 8 cores?

 

[Squilly]

Still trying to unlock all 8 cores?

Yes, lol. "Stressing".

 

[vatter69]

This wors pretty well

http://macfidelity.de/2009/05/10/mac-how-to-stress-test-your-cpu-in-mac-os-x/index.html

 

[leman]

Why? What is you purpose? Just watch the world burn? Start 7 Terminal sessions with cat /dev/random > /dev/null and then run the Unigine Benchmark...

P.S. BTW, there seems to be a FurMark port for OS X (http://www.geeks3d.com/gputest/). Please at least TRY to use google next time.

 

[Ploki]

http://www.coolbook.se/CPUTest.html

still works. And still I have 0 idea what are you trying to achieve...

 

[duervo]

http://www.coolbook.se/CPUTest.html

still works. And still I have 0 idea what are you trying to achieve...

Burn-in is the only logical explanation that I can come up with, aside from just mild curiosity or boredom.

For that matter, you don't really need any specific app for CPU burn-in or "stressing", but that's been said multiple times already, both in this thread and that other one.

GPU burn-in is a wee bit more challenging (teeny tiny bit) ... but nothing that one of the latest games out there right now can't handle, provided the right graphics settings are used to beat the crap out of the hardware.

I haven't been that bored in many years, though, and when I was, I usually tinkered with Linux. Now, I don't care, as long as my crap works so I can get my other crap done, because it's all just a pile of crap anyway.

 

[alphaod]

It you just redid your processor thermal paste, I'd understand all this "stress testing," but as it stands it just all feels like a waste of time.

 

[ervintere]

i agree it,Burn-in is the only logical explanation that I can come up with, aside from just mild curiosity or boredom.

 

[leman]

I think the next post will be: 'I run a stress test for 2 weeks straight and now the rMBP won't turn on! Apple sux!'

 

[Patrick Boyle]

I haven't been that bored in many years, though, and when I was, I usually tinkered with Linux. Now, I don't care, as long as my crap works so I can get my other crap done, because it's all just a pile of crap anyway.

You sound like you're in the IT industry

 

[Squilly]

I think the next post will be: 'I run a stress test for 2 weeks straight and now the rMBP won't turn on! Apple sux!'

Nawww... just curiosity.