Whats a good paid complete computer diagnostic package program?

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moulderhere

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If you had say 20 workstations of different motherboards, processors, hard drives, everything.

You wanted to test ALL hardware FULLY, what software would you use to do this?

I need to buy a good complete system testing software.

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If it passes RB, have no reason to go any further. If there are failures, at that point we would try and narrow them down:

a) If a memory error appeared likely, I'd test w/ memtest 86+ overnight (12 hours0.
http://www.memtest.org/

b) Never used on a new system but if had storage concerns, would use manufacturer supplied SeaTools by Seagate of whatever is appropriate for other manufacturers.. We haven't used a HD in about 7 years (only SSDs and SSHDs)
http://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/support-content/downloads/seatools/_shared/downloads/pdf/SeaTools-for-windows-en-us.pdf

If you want to go further, there's SpinRite which is the best tool available... Crystal Disk is another option.

https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

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To test for what ?

Frankly I no longer put any value on synthetic testing (P95, AIDA, OCCT, etc) I build my workstations to run programs ... and using synthetics doesn't allow me to do that. Asus RoG Real Bench is a collection of actual workstation programs and runs them individually and in a multitasking environment. I have has 24 hour P95 stable OCs fail under RoG RB in < 2 hours so that's pretty much all I depend on that this point while using HWiNFO for monitoring

http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?43233-Realbench-v2-Discussion-Thread-Download-Links
http://www.hwinfo.com/download.php

Of course testing with your main applications is a great step:

AutoCAD - Cadalyst Benchmark
http://www.cadalyst.com/benchmark-test

SolidWorks Benchmark
http://www.spec.org/gwpg/apc.static/sw2015info.html
https://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/benchmarks.htm

Adobe Premier Benchmark
http://ppbm7.com/index.php/homepage/instructions
 
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If it passes RB, have no reason to go any further. If there are failures, at that point we would try and narrow them down:

a) If a memory error appeared likely, I'd test w/ memtest 86+ overnight (12 hours0.
http://www.memtest.org/

b) Never used on a new system but if had storage concerns, would use manufacturer supplied SeaTools by Seagate of whatever is appropriate for other manufacturers.. We haven't used a HD in about 7 years (only SSDs and SSHDs)
http://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/support-content/downloads/seatools/_shared/downloads/pdf/SeaTools-for-windows-en-us.pdf

If you want to go further, there's SpinRite which is the best tool available... Crystal Disk is another option.

https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

c) Again, there's numerous CPU stability testing tools but they don't give me any answers that RB doesn't. You could use Intel's own tool but to my eyes, doesn't provide anything of value.

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/19792/Intel-Processor-Diagnostic-Tool

d) Motherboard diagnostics are built in, the MoBo checks everything at start up, and if you chose wisely, the MoBo is equipped with an lCD that will display a 2 character code that points to the problem area.

e) For GPUs I test with Furmark to determine if cooling is adequate and card is not throttling

If you just want to buy something. AIDA 64 will give you loads of data, but most of that is readily available and freely available. It's $200 for a single tech license

https://www.aida64.com/products/aida64-engineer

Other purchase options:

https://www.aida64.com/online-store

We've been building CAD Workstations for going on 25 years and have not had the need or saw any value to using anything other than the aforementioned tools.
 
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There are a few professional class benching programs that can be run against a network. Probably not worth it for 50 machines though.

Preemptive computer maintenance involving part replacement is actually costly. Ideally you should just have a good backup plan for each machine. Then if they do fail, downtime is minimal. Really have to weigh the costs of regular replacement of the entire system against regularly replacing components in older systems. At a certain point it tips the other way. If you keep a spare machine or two to replace a failed unit you are probably all set at that scale.

Some of the basic stuff can be gathered with powershell scripts using WMI cmdlets. Regarding system information itself, including memory capacity and drive statuses.



 
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