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HeavyLoad 2.41

By Mike Williams | 08 November 10

HeavyLoad is a simple but effective tool for stress-testing your PC.

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The program is very easy to use. Launch it, click the Start button, and HeavyLoad will immediately begin allocating memory, reading and writing to your hard drive, exercising your graphics card, and more, while its graphical display shows you exactly what's going on.

Why bother? This kind of utility has several applications.

If you believe your PC might be crashing when it overheats, for instance, running HeavyLoad will help test this.

If you've just overclocked your system then running HeavyLoad will check its stability.

And we regularly use HeavyLoad to test programs which claim they can optimise the processes running on your PC, for example to prevent "runaway processes" from grabbing all your CPU time.

Be careful, though. If your system really is unstable, then this kind of stress-test can cause it to lock up or crash. Be sure to save any important work in other apps before you give HeavyLoad a try.

Platforms: Windows 7 (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit), Windows Vista (32 bit), Windows Vista (64 bit), Windows XP
Version: 2.41
Licence: Freeware
Manufacturer: JAM Software
Date Added: 2010-11-08 14:22:00.0

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