Reliable Freeware CPU Tester

Anyone know of a reliable Cpu tester that will tell me if its pass/fail? Its an AMD 9950 Black Edition. Bios Recognizes it. But It could fail under load. I'm hoping to all run it under a boot able OS (Live CD) as no to waste time loading the OS and applications.

Anyone?

I agree with Wes, in 20+ years of repairing PC's I have only seen 2-3 bad CPU's in that whole time. ALOT of MB, Ram, PS etc but CPU's just don't fail really.

garfi3ld wrote: from my experience its almost never the CPU unless its an overclocking issue, damaged pins, or (from back before heat spreaders) thermal paste issues.
If you are able to boot the CPU is normally good as well. You are welcome to put it under load using something like prime95. The CPU is different than RAM where each sector can be scanned and tested.

What is it doing

Well thats just it. I bent the pins, rebent them carefully. Didnt see any that broke off. Got it to post, bios recognizes it. Wanted to test it before I went to the trouble of loading the OS, apps, customizing it, etc. Via Live CD, version of a cpu tester program. Underload though it could conk out with prime.

I think I'll Prime 95 it and see what happens. Ran memtest 86, which I know is a side bar to this with 5 passes and it came out find.

thanks! for the input.

It passed Prime 95 for 3 hours. I then took it out and looked at it with a magnifying glass. No broken pins and they seemed to have gotten even straighter in the socket.

thanks for the assist.