How well is your PC performing? That question arises if you have purchased or built a new PC and also if you want to know how well an old animal still performs. StressMyPC pushes your machine to its limits, but does not provide any analysis itself. It is up to you to judge how the machine survives.
StressMyPC 4.4
price
Free
Language
English; Dutch
OS
Windows 7/8/10
Website
www.softwareok.com
6 Score 60 
- Pros
- The three test types
- Simple interface
- Negatives
- Can cause overclocked or unstable systems to crash
- The translation is confusing rather than helpful
StressMyPC is an exe file that you can run from your PC, but also from a USB stick. The small tool has three tests: a stress test for the graphics card, one for the CPU and finally a test for the hard disk.
Graphics Card
To conduct a good stress test, first close all non-essential applications. Besides, if you close programs and background processes, the computer will run faster anyway. Then you open StressMyPC. The working environment of this test looks unusual. At the top left are four buttons, which look like tabs. When you get on Paint-Stress select the test for the graphics card. It does not start automatically. You then have to click on the button again StressMyPC. This will fill the screen with alternating green and black stripes. You can see this at the bottom of the status bar Paint-Stress is active and the other two tests are not yet.
Processor and hard drive
The cpu test is done in the same way. You click on Agressive CPU stress and then activate the test via the button StressMyPC. The same goes for the button HD Stress. In this way you can also run two or three stress tests simultaneously. On the right side are the buttons to change the language setting and the button to Windows Task Manager to start. If you don’t, perform a blindness stress test. In Task management you see in the tab Performance how StressMyPC puts the whip on the processor, hard disk and GPU. You can optionally use the app Source control also monitor the load of the various components.
Conclusion
This program certainly doesn’t win a beauty prize, but it doesn’t have that pretense either. This is a relatively simple tool to see how the PC and battery behave under extreme conditions.
