Testing new Laptop for Issues

Hey guys after all suggestions I bought,

GIGABYTE P57Xv6-NE2 @ ~$1300 along with free Gigabyte Headset + Watchdogs2 title

• GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB
• Intel Core i7 6700HQ (2.60 GHz)
• 16x1 GB Memory + 1 TB HDD + 128 GB SSD (M.2 SATA)
• 17.3" Full HD IPS 1920 x 1080
• 6 Cell battery and 6.61 lbs.
• DVD Super Multi (changeable slot to M.2)
• Total capacity: 2 Memory slots @2400 MHz (Max 32 GB)

As I have bought this laptop in USA and will be bought to India after 1 month. I want to check the laptop for any defects and get them solved in US itself before I get that in India. So how do I test the laptop for any defects in in its Hardware such as,

• CPU/GPU
• Dead screen pixels
• Keyboard
• Battery
• Speakers etc.,

I know about CPUID for getting hardware info and also know about some Load/Stress/Benchmarking software.
Kindly suggest me(I am also googling stuff), just want to know from the experts.


Which software should I use for stress test and what are the maximum temperatures for CPU and GPU of this laptop ?

Please direct me towards any place where these things are explained

 

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Just use occt to bench the laptop that should give u temps as for deadpixels and lightbleed google is ur friend there are sites same for speakers webcams etc.

 

For screen you'd want to just open a completely white page at fullscreen and look for any pixel that isn't white, and then do the same for black. That should show you any dead/stuck pixels. Note that most places will not replace a screen just cause you have a dead/stuck pixel and it usually needs to be x amount in y space (for example, 5 pixels in 1 square inch)... so there are thresholds. In general, you just want to make sure that the screen looks ok/good to you, like no excessive light bleeding around corners and and no flashligting/blobs of white on the screen.

For CPU/GPU the best way would be to just loop a benchmark tool like 3dmark. There is furmark but that puts on an unrealistic load on the cpu/gpu which would never happen under normal gaming circumstances and should probably be avoided. Some still use it furmark (it causes the absolute worst case scenario), others steer clear of it. An alternative for CPU would be Intel's XTU, which has it's own stress test built in.

Not much you can do for battery other than perform the same test as a reviewer (like notebookcheck) and make sure you get similar results. You can also do powercfg /batteryreport to get the current mah of the battery.

For keyboard not much you can do there either, just make sure every key works; you can also check to make sure ghosting is not an issue: https://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/KeyboardGhostingDemo.mspx

For speakers, unless you have a high end mic and proper software I don't see how one would do 'proper' testing of them. Instead I would just make sure each speaker works and you don't get excessive degradation at higher volume.

You can also run tests against the wifi/bluetooth card, RAM, as well as the drives, but I don't think that's going to yield much of anything.

You can also check that the case doesn't have defects/bends and that the screen closes flush with the case, but with all these things keep in mind that the more you search for those things, the more likely you are to find things which you would have otherwise never noticed. There is something to be said for 'ignorance is bliss'.