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Old 21st April 2009
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Not a motherboard specific test, no. There are tools that will report temperatures from sensors on the board, and fan speeds.

Better would be stress testing. In the case of Windows, a great stress tester that produces lots of heat, is "prime95" -- the tool is used in a massive distributed computing project, but it just happens to have a "torture test" that works very well for testing PC hardware. It finds ... or rather, induces ... failures that pure memory testers can't find, as they don't stress the processor(s). And it is heat management where PCs often have problems. Tools like this produce incredible heat stress -- even greater than CPU-heavy applications like video encoding.

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