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Breaking in a new laptop

Hooobi

Hooobi

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I just received my new Inspiron 9300 today and had read in a forum somewhere that it's a good idea to break it in by running cpu intensive tasks for days on end. Seems like overkill to me and I've never done it before, but I'd like to know what you guys recommend before I start replacing hardware (RAM & drive) on this thing.

TIA
 
Dell does a certain amount of system/component testing when they assemble the computers as well.

You can certainly run your system with a CPU intensive application (like Prime95) to test stability, but I seriously doubt it will show any errors at stock speed, and I also seriously doubt it will benefit/harm your system in any way at stock speed.
 
Originally posted by: Hooobi
I just received my new Inspiron 9300 today and had read in a forum somewhere that it's a good idea to break it in by running cpu intensive tasks for days on end. Seems like overkill to me and I've never done it before, but I'd like to know what you guys recommend before I start replacing hardware (RAM & drive) on this thing.

TIA
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It would be a good idea if you have the time, Purpose: to weed out any weak components and still take advantage of Dell's 30 day no questions asked return policy if it breaks.

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