Burn-In?

[descent]

I am building a new system:

Enlight 7237AZ (340w) medium tower case
Shuttle AK31A mobo
Athlon 1700+
2 X 256MB Crucial 2100 DDR
Visiontek Xtasy 5632 GF2 GTS-V (32MB DDR)
($412 delivered from newegg.com)

HDD, CDRW, DVD are all coming out of my old system.

Anywho, once I get it all together, is there any kind of burn in that I need to do? Any utils I can loop that might point out any flaws in the components? Any advice is appreciated,

descentr

 

[MrGrim]

What I usually do is create either a UT or Q3 game with the maximum amount of bots and an unlimited number of frags. Just let it play for as long as you like. If it doesn't crash it doesn't mean that it's 100% stable but nothing can guarantee you that anyway. There is also another program called cpuburn2 which is supposed to be quite effective.

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

There's a bunch of free ones you can download off the net. Do a search on CNET.com. Sisoft Sandra also has a burn-in suite.

 

[MikeMike]

how bout looping 3dmark2k1? would that work if you looped each one for about 20 times then kept rerunning it after it was done about 2 hours later or would that only use ur graphics card?

Quake 3 would bbe better than UT since it is more cpu oriented than gpu

 

[jcmkk]

UT is mainly effected by the CPU not the graphics card.

 

[AppleTalking]

Even better yet, how about dropping by the Distributed Computing Forum? There are quite a few programs (like RC5 and OGR from distributed.net, or the ECCp-109 project) that you could download. They use all available CPU power, so they're great for testing new processors or computers. And not only would you be testing your machine, but you'd be helping out Team Anandtech!! So come by the Forum and check out a few of the recruitment threads. It's very addictive!

Good luck,
Nick