Do I need to stress test my PC?

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I'm building a new PC for general use such a small emailing, watching videos, paying bills, and internet browising. It's got a Pentium G4560. It's not going to be for gaming at all or anything more intensive than the aforementioned tasks.

Based on this, do I need to stress test the CPU? If I do, what program should I use and what specifically should I do? I've never done stress testing before and I'd be a little fearful of burning a component up. I'm also just using the Intel stock fan.

Thank you!
 
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Although stress testing can show if there is something failing, they are also quite often unrealistic (especially in your case) and have more to do with claiming testicle size. I would install a program like HWInfo (free and good) that can show you what hardware you have, and how it's performing during use (speed and temperature). If that shows fine, I'd be happy
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stress test to see if it is slow or is prone to fail?

the g4560 is quite decent

so you could run prime 95 to see if it fails and how hot it can become

also you could run cinebench r15, it should give you 350 cb more or less, perhaps more, if gives you less, then check temperatures and other parts of pc like ram
 
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Although stress testing can show if there is something failing, they are also quite often unrealistic (especially in your case) and have more to do with claiming testicle size. I would install a program like HWInfo (free and good) that can show you what hardware you have, and how it's performing during use (speed and temperature). If that shows fine, I'd be happy
 
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