Repeatable thermal benchmarks. rethebes is a command-line utility that runs a repeatable benchmark of the CPU temperature under user-configurable load conditions.

rethebes has only been tested on Windows 10 and python 3.8. It should also be compatible with more recent Windows and python versions.

Internally, rethebes uses LibreHardwareMonitorLib, which is not distributed with rethebes and must be installed separately. To do so, you must:

1. Download it from the Releases page on github.
2. Add the directory where you have extracted LibreHardwareMonitorLib.dll to your PYTHONPATH environment variable in Windows.

Note that you also need some version of the .NET runtime, but that is commonly installed in Windows.

Then, you can install rethebes from github via pip or (recommended) pipx:

pipx install git+https://github.com/giuliofoletto/rethebes

In an elevated terminal (required to access temperature sensors), run:

rethebes run <config-file>

where <config-file> is the path of a configuration file. See examples/README.md for a guide about configuration files, and pre-made examples.

Note that unless you specify otherwise in the configuration file, running rethebes creates the folder ~/.rethebes, which is not deleted by pipx during if you uninstall rethebes.

Assuming your configuration file instructed rethebes to save the measurements results, you can visualize them with

rethebes analyze <output-file>

For convenience, if you place your configuration file in the default folder (~/.rethebes/config/), you can invoke it via name only, without necessarily including the full path or the extension. For instance

rethebes run short

will work if file ~/.rethebes/config/short.json exists.

You can do the same for output files (in ~/.rethebes/output/):

rethebes analyze foobar

will work if file ~/.rethebes/output/foobar.csv exists.

The package that loads the CPU uses code by Gaetano Carlucci and Giuseppe Cofano (MIT licensed). In addition to LibreHardwareMonitorLib (MPL licensed), the code depends on other open source python packages that are downloaded automatically during installation. See setup.py for the list.