CoreHeaterQt

Building a computer is not an easy task since not all hardware components are fully compatible when combined, and your physical system needs to be cooled down. A solid configuration heats up pretty quick, and is not recommended to go over a certain temperature. In this regard, CoreHeaterQt comes as a straightforward utility that puts pressure on your CPU to see if you need some extra coolers.

The application comes in a pretty lightweight package and although it requires an installation, the process only takes a little time, and no other third-party utilities are required. Once set up, you can go ahead and run it to start heating up your processor.

On the visual side of things, there aren’t any shiny elements to look at, nor is there any need for them, since the core function has nothing to do with aesthetics. The main window is pretty compact, managing to neatly hold and display all functions you get to manage.

However, there’s one thing we need to get clear, and that’s the application is not a benchmark utility with which to put your CPU to the test, but rather make it work heavily until stopped, to check if tweaking needs to be done.

The main idea is to heat up your processors to see if installed coolers live up to the task. As a consequence, starting the process makes your CPU function heavily until you stop it. Yes, it continues to perform operations until you manually press Stop.

The options you get to manage are not abundant. You can choose the computation technique, which can be integer, real, or both, as well as resources with the possibility to set number of threads, and array size in MB. However, you need to know what you’re doing, and an incorrect configuration can lead to literally frying your CPU.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that CoreHeaterQt is a straightforward method with which you can make your processors work without a real reason. It can help you pick a better heating system, or decide if it can handle complex tasks, but without a result or any kind f scores, practicality becomes highly questionable.