An automated suite for determining stability and performance of a PC under load. This software is focused on stress testing the major heat-generating and power-consuming components (CPU, GPU, and potentially HDD).
Created in quarantine, during the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic.
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to eliminate uncertianty in a computer's performance and stability. Largely concerned with power and temperature of a computer:
The score it returns is more representive of the practical performace of the hardware, rather than the max potential of the hardware. This entails putting the hardware in less-than ideal circumstances, such as multiple simultaneous tests or not giving hardware time to cool down
a pattern of benchmarking and stressing 0) on first launch, confirm with user the dangers of stresstesting hardware and perform first-run initalization[1]
- start logging temperatures
- start by benchmarking each component
- stresstest the following, with another benchmark done after each module:
a) CPU; prime95, max heat
b) GPU; furmark, <res TBD> @ max settings
c) CPU and GPU: simultaneous
- benchmarks during stress tests- the exact scope has not been decided, but so far I want to do the following:
a) CPU benchmark during GPU Stress
i) simulates GPU bottleneck
b) GPU benchmark during CPU Stress
i) simulates CPU bottleneck
ii) note: score will absolutely be lower because of limited CPU time for the GPU benchmark
- generate some sort of log[2] with a score[3]
Benchmarking tests are the biggest contributers to a score
Stresstests are meant to put the computer in difficult situations to confirm stability under pressure
I also want to include temperatures in the score, but I haven't figured out exactly how I will yet.[3]
technically speaking you could probably do everything this program does yourself just by running things with the same commands that I do and then doing the formula lol
Created under the MVC framework. I learned that under Java and have absolutely no C++ experience prior to this project so like, haha that might be an awful idea but it's what im doing you cannot stop me
- CPU
- GPU
- RAM
- HDD
- CPU
- GPU
All files are downloaded to %LOCALAPPDATA%/QAST-Bench
todo: figure out the softwares used
If you have any questions or concerns, please email me at spencerfinch7@gmail.com.
[1]
- log that the user has accepted the risks
- find/download all softwares needed: keep user informed during this
- <more?>
[2] for now, just a simple HTML page will work
in the future, I'd like to implement a viewer that lets you compare your scores to all previous runs, but that isn't feasable for the moment
[3] i need to figure out a formula for this
current thoughts:
* temperatures should act as a modifier, with cooler temperatures slightly multiplying the score. Should probably be limited to reasonable temperatures for silicone? 0-90c, to discourage both excessively high (i.e. cards that run too hot) and excessively low temperatures (i.e. LN2 cooling). Maybe add a mode to disable this multiplier in the future.
* score needs to be scalable but meaningful
* what i mean is that it cant be some like 30 digit number, but it needs to have some amount of granularity for weaker systems
* how the heck do i calculate a formula for this
* i need to figure out how other programs do this kinda stuff