Component Testing Programs

Hi Folks. My business has been keeping me away from my hobbies for a long time now, but I'm seeing a window of opportunity to build a new office rig so I'm going for it.

I did not realize just how long I have been out of the game. I was recently looking up my old component info/testing websites and seeing that things have changed (or not changed).

MemTest86+ does not look like it has been updated in years, so I want to ask: What are people doing for RAM testing today?

How about Burn-in testing? You guys still doing that? Is Prime95 still the go-to program?

What do you like to use for Graphics Card comparison? GPUReview looks long in the tooth today.

And I used to use a website that told us who actually makes the power supply.
https://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/psu_manufacturers
But again, it hasn't been updated since 2014. Have you found that info somewhere else?

Thanks

MemTest86+ is still used, not much has changed since DDR started but it's only checking for HW errors not as used in the system.
As for other HW testing, it can be divided in at least 2 groups, HW testing/torture tests and benchmark/performance tests. Prime95 can still be used for stability tests but there are few variants for use with various systems. I like to use OCCT Download as it also provides real time monitoring with graphs and saves generated graphs to analyze it later.
For benchmarks, there are many and some of them you can see in this forum and compare with other people's results although, because of wide variety of systems and settings, results may not be most accurate and 100% repeatable. I like to use them to compare results after changing some HW, drivers overclock and settings.
For decisions about new HW, there's tons of descriptions/evaluation articles as well as Youtube videos although my preferred method is to look them up at various forums to see actual experiences real people have with them. Most faults show up there as opposed to payed testers that are most often payed by particular manufacturer and (of course) lean heavily to their side.

Thanks Mike, I'll check out that OCCT program, sound good.

I have always looked at it as due diligence, not completely necessary. You put the rig together and then do a couple of quick overnight tests to see if there is anything obviously wrong before spending the time setting everything up and installing software before finding out.
I've found that bad hardware blips out at first use normally (not always!), so those initial tests just ease up the concerns.

TV2 said:

Thanks Mike, I'll check out that OCCT program, sound good.

I have always looked at it as due diligence, not completely necessary. You put the rig together and then do a couple of quick overnight tests to see if there is anything obviously wrong before spending the time setting everything up and installing software before finding out.
I've found that bad hardware blips out at first use normally (not always!), so those initial tests just ease up the concerns.

Yes, those tests are most useful to troubleshoot problems or for fine tuning/OC. Benchmarks too.