Cpukiller Alternatives

Cpukiller is described as 'CPUKILLER is a software capable of slowing down your computer up to 99% permitting you to run old software' and is an app in the gaming software category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Cpukiller for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Android, Cinnamon and GNOME apps. The best Cpukiller alternative is Prime95, which is free. Other great apps like Cpukiller are CPU Frequency Selector, SetCPU, Auto-CPUFreq and HeavyLoad.

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  1. Prime95 icon
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    Prime95 is a program that searches for new Mersenne prime numbers. It is commonly used as a stability test for overclocked computers.

    25 Prime95 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    One is a stress test, the other an cpu speed emulator for old fashioned and badly written programs.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Prime95 is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Cpukiller.

    • Prime95 is the most popular free alternative to Cpukiller.

    • Prime95 is Free and ProprietaryCpukiller is also Free and Proprietary
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    cinnamon-cpufreq-applet - Port of Gnome 3 CPUFreq applet to Cinnamon - with some fixes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Cinnamon
    • GNOME
     
    • CPU Frequency Selector is the most popular Open Source alternative to Cpukiller.

    • CPU Frequency Selector is Free and Open SourceCpukiller is Free and Proprietary
  3. SetCPU icon
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    SetCPU is a tool for changing the CPU settings (capable of overclock and underclock) on a rooted Android device, to improve performance or save battery.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
    • SetCPU is the most popular Android alternative to Cpukiller.

    • SetCPU is the most popular commercial alternative to Cpukiller.

    • SetCPU is Paid and ProprietaryCpukiller is Free and Proprietary
  4. HeavyLoad icon
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    The individual test methods employed by HeavyLoad can be customized to fit your needs. Can stress test CPU, hard disk, memory and GPU.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    One is a stress test program, the other an cpu speed emulator for old fashioned and badly written programs.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • HeavyLoad is Free and ProprietaryCpukiller is also Free and Proprietary
  5. cpulimit icon
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    CPU Usage Limiter for Linux - cpulimit is a simple program which attempts to limit the cpu usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to control batch jobs, when you don't want them to eat too much cpu.

    13 cpulimit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. CPU Limiter icon
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    Limits CPU power to applications based on percentage CPU limit (per target process) ou or suspend target processes. The program permit add process using wildcard and actions triggered.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Qt
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
     
  7. SuperPI icon
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    Super PI is a single threaded benchmark that calculates pi to a specific number of digits. It uses the Gauss-Legendre algorithm and is a Windows port of a program used by Yasumasa Kanada in 1995 to compute pi to 232 digits.

    11 SuperPI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    One is a benchmark, the other an cpu speed emulator for old fashioned and badly written programs.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • SuperPI is Free and ProprietaryCpukiller is also Free and Proprietary
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    No-frills CPU Control is a tool you can use on your rooted device to quickly set the CPU frequencies and governor to use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  9. Ananicy icon
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    Ananicy (ANother Auto NICe daemon) — is a shell daemon created to manage processes' IO and CPU priorities, with community-driven set of rules for popular applications (anyone may add their own rule via github's pull request mechanism). It's mainly for desktop usage.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    StressMyPC is stress testing software, to do a PC stability test ergo computer stress test at fully load of the hardware.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    One is a stress test, the other an cpu speed emulator for old fashioned and badly written programs.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • StressMyPC is Free and ProprietaryCpukiller is also Free and Proprietary
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