The Best Linux Stress Tests for Gaming PCs and Servers

Have you just assembled your monstrous gaming PC or server and, do you want to give it a Linux stress test grind on the fly, to see what comes out of the benchmarks?
Here are some performance tests ready, to wake up the silicon-hearted monster, from its slumber, and test the preformance

Best Linux Stress Tests

Phoronix Test Suite

Surely the benchmark for stress testing on Linux, the most comprehensive PC benchmark suite is available for Linux, freely downloadable from the phoronix GitHub repository
If we install the version found on the repository, multiple tests are available and must be downloaded individually:

$ phoronix-test-suite list-available-tests

This command will display the long list of available tests in the Phoronix Test Suite that can be installed, divided by the type of hardware to be tested (Processor, Graphics Card, Disk, RAM Memory...)
We can pass the list to a | grep or | less to read it more conveniently

To install the benchmark we use the command below, this will take some time, some tests (Unigine, Bioshock etc) need a lot of space, for these reasons I have chosen to use gputes which requires little disk space and is fast in download

$ phoronix-test-suite install pts/gputes

We run the stress test (it will take some time)

$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark pts/gputest

At the end of the test we have a numerical result of the benchmark, comparable with those published by other users

Inquisitor live CD

Inquisitor is a Linux Live CD (it boots at boot time and contains a complete system) for hardware stress testing, it contains various tools that allow us to test performance, it does not target graphics testing but more towards processor, memory and storage
Here are some of the features and benchmarks available to test performance

• Array configurator
• BYTEmark benchmark suite
• CPU benchmark: Dhrystone
• CPU benchmark: Whetstone
• Database to Detects comparison
• Firmware reflashing
• HDD array stress
• HDD array benchmark: Bonnie
• Memory benchmark: STREAM
• Memory test: Memtester
• Network interface
• ODD write
• Partimage
• Reference-based detects comparison
• Stress compression
• UnixBench benchmark suite
• USB flash drive

StressLinux

Another Live with tests similar to the previous one always oriented more to the server world or testing the computing power of processors, disks and memories
You can find the test list and links to downloads at official