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 ...

Before we go forward and run some of the tests that we are going to see hereinafter, let us check a few of the symptoms to understand if those tests are worth doing. We have mentioned some symptoms ...