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Find out what your PC is capable of with HeavyLoad

HeavyLoad
Ever wonder how your PC would hold up under stress. Like, a lot of stress? HeavyLoad is an application designed to do one thing: give your computer a hard time. The program writes a large file to a temp directory and puts strain on your CPU, RAM, hard drive, network connection and operating system.

HeavyLoad doesn't provide detailed results. The test is more of a pass/fail kind of thing. You can run it for as long as you'd like. If your PC or the application doesn't crash, then it means your PC can hold up to a reasonable amount of stress.

Because HeavyLoad is likely to fragment your memory and swap files, you should reboot your computer after you're done using the program. And if the program terminates unexpectedly you may have a huge test file left in your temp directory.

[via gHacks]

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