Probably have to skip programs like Prime95, Seti, Folding@home that have an actual purpose. Those all offload info to hdd and memory regularly. AMD has an internal program that supposedly is similar to Intel's MAXPWR program that only loads processor and to 100%. I suspect that such programs will have to be tailored to the cache of the processor, and then they just send it off on some endless loop. K7Burn seems to be the closest thing to this I can find, but I don't have the resolution (for another few days) to really check that.
Just like the die simulators, this is quickly going to move away from what "feels good to end users". Any monitoring equipment should be on a separate PC; don't know too many overclockers doing this though. Probably a good many more nights of discussion and thought (not many do that either).
Embedded RTDs in the simulator? Looking at heat flux through the unit? Lots of temps needed for that...
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