OK, Prime95 has now been running for 15 hours with no errors or warnings. In the readme it says to run for at least two hours.
LOL - I think I'm gonna forget it about and assume the RAM is OK, or has such a minor fault that it will never show up...
Have done some more testing and I'm just as confused, if not more so...
Microsoft Windows RAM tester (which runs off a bootable CD) also finds some errors (on a couple of different tests...). However, RightMark memory stability test (a Windows app) finds no errors on all 62 tests. I've also...
Detailed post ahead - bare with me :)
I originally had a TwinMOS 512MB (2x256MB) dual chan kit for my P4 system. It was always a bit dodgy - it would only run Memtest at CAS3. At the advertised CAS 2.5 it would throw errors in test 5 and 6. Set to CAS3 and it was perfect, so I decided to live...
Trying to connect a PS2 to a 19" RCA TV with an S-Video cable but cannot get any signal at all. I know the cable and the PS2 are both fine because I've just moved them from another TV where they worked with no probs. On the this TV tho it just can't get a signal from the PS2 and I have no idea...
Those ratings mean nothing in the real world. Antec make quality PSU's and everybody knows that.
Ford could say an Escort will run for 500,000 miles before the engine blows, where a Mercedes is only rated at 300,000 miles. Does that mean an Escord is better than a Merc? I think not...
I'd go for the Antec every time. Actually, I recently tried using an Enermax and it was faulty and kept powering off my machine - from now on I won't even consider anything other than Antec :)
Just try upping the VDIMM a notch or two. My TwinMOS throws loads of errors at stock VDIMM - but increasing it a tiny amount resulted in zero errors in over 6 hours of Memtest.
Also, some G.Skill I just bought for another machine threw one error - upped the VDIMM and, again, no more errors.
I'd go for the Intel. That sounds like the better all-round option for you, especially if you're going to be doing other things while encoding - Intel are much better at multitasking. And they are still more than good enough for games. I'd say go for the AMD if pure gaming performance is what...
Thanks for the replies guys - things have progressed a bit now...
So the Enermax basically died a death and wouldn't start up again. So I ripped out the 400W Antec SmartPower from my machine and tried that in the new PC. It worked perfectly. So the Enermax must have just been a faulty unit...
It's an Enermax Noisetaker 370W. It should be more than powerful enough as it's quite a modest P4 system. I noticed straight away the rails looked a bit on the low side - the 12v rail in particular was reading as low as 11.5v, and usually 11.6v. I know you can't fully trust software readings on...
6600 - it has 8 render pipes compared to 4 on the 9600XT. However, if it's AGP then there aren't that many 6600's to choose from as most of them are PCI-E. I think Newegg as a nice ASUS AGP version going quite cheap tho...
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