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Accepting Lockups, and Reboots as part of daily life?

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Spook

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I was reading a review earlier on a motherboard, and I got to the Stability blurb...



<< Stability >>



<< I tested the board with 10 loops of 3D Mark 2000, 10 loops of Business Winstone2001 while having FOLDING@HOME running at the background. The machine passed the test successfully. I also used the board as a daily machine to write the review, play a few games, surf the net and things like that. I noticed occasional crashes and lockups. Thus I would rate this board just below the KR7A. >>


Have we gotten to the point that we have to accept the occasional daily or hourly lockup as 'Normal'... Is running 3DMark2000 or even 2001 for 10 loops, and Winstone2001 for 10 loops a way to judge stability? Jees I require of my systems to run for hours, not based on the number of loops it can run....

Wow calling the motherboard stable based on that criteria is sad...

Spook
 
yep another so called marketing scheme ...send it out the door after a measley few tests and watch as the geeks (yes insert our names here) push it to the limits and find that their limits are different than our limits lol
 
I don't accept lockups and reboots and why should I? I got sick and tired of Win9x getting pushed just over the edge when I used it, I moved to 2k and have been happy ever since, so happy I don't even want to move to XP (although I have it in dual boot). Although, stability is a perfect balance between hardware and software imho. The thought of measuring stability based on a few rounds of benches like that is laughable.
 
i think thats kinda a good test because it really stresses the system... of course, as hardware addict said, their idea of stability may differ from your idea of stability.

Personally I'd call it stable if that computer crashed zero times during the test, but oh well. I have been a win98 user for many years, and I can count all my "stability" problems on one hand. When they do crop up (if ever), then I don't think any less of my system - everything b0rks up once in a while, not much you can do about it.
 
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