Test Options > Remarks on the test methods

The purpose of HeavyLoad is to put your system under stress to analyze its behaviour and to determine if it runs stable at this utilization.

HeavyLoad is not a benchmarking tool and will not evaluate on how well a system performs in comparison to similar setups.

Please also keep in mind that stress testing a system can always lead to crashes and bluescreens and because of that, important data should be saved before running the tests.

A few hints on telling if a test was successful:

•You should run a test for at least one hour. Usually new issues won't be found if the system is running stable while running the stress test for more than 5 hours.

•If the machine does not show any bad symptoms the load test was successful.

•If the stress test has not been successful, the machine might crash or show a blue screen of death.