As I've been playing with different OC settings for my system, of course I've been stress testing, mostly with Prime95, but leaving it on for hours on end burning electricity number crunching without doing anything useful seems incredibly wasteful to me. My experience with Prime is that if I have a bad OC, it'll bluescreen - I've not seen a single error thrown up yet - so I figured maybe stress testing with a more useful piece of software where it's actually doing some scientific research would be nice. Last night I downloaded BOINC, threw on Milkyway@Home (I chose that one as it's both multithreaded and will make use of the GPU), and let it run. Unfortunately, it's not maxing out my processor: I'm seeing only 90-95% utilization, and the difference between something like Prime and this in terms of heat and stress on the CPU seems obvious.
Are there any good distributed computing projects that'll actually max out my CPU (a 2600K) so I can feel like my stress testing is contributing to the greater good, or are things like Prime and Intel Burn Test really the only good stress testers out there?
Are there any good distributed computing projects that'll actually max out my CPU (a 2600K) so I can feel like my stress testing is contributing to the greater good, or are things like Prime and Intel Burn Test really the only good stress testers out there?