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Bovinicus

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I like to use Passmark's BurnInTest as a stability tester. People overlook this program all of the time. It runs loops of various operations for memory, CPU, drives, USB, network cards, just about everything. The loads can be set to 100% for max stability testage. Also, it reports any errors, and reveals them more than just about any program. For example, memtest86 showed zero memory errors when my FSB was set slightly higher than it is currently. However, I had a few CD-ROM errors when the FSB was that high (Presumably because of DMA transferring using the memory). I lowered the FSB slightly and the errors went away. www.passmark.com has it for download. It can only be run for short periods of time without registering, that's the only problem.
 

godspeedx

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Aug 20, 2002
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I think there's a broken linky.

Under Video Benchmarks, the very last link - UT2k3 Benchmarking Utility @ HardOCP

You have it linked to here
I believe you want it linked HERE

Love the new look :)
 

johnlgalt

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Nov 26, 2002
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K, since I am a newbie to the forums, I guess the easiest way to get my answer is to ask directly. My rig that I began building in Jan and finished in May is decent, but I guess I screwed myself in some aspects. The old hunk that it replaced *was* a P200 (non MMX) with 96 MB RAM and a 3 GB HD, so........

I built this one from scratch - P4 20A / Northwood, 1.25 GB PC2100 DDR, Tyan Trinity 510 (s2266) motherboard, Dual IBM Deskstar 18 GB HDs (I skimped on storage - for now), QPS Que Fire 16X10X40X burner removed from case and installed a master on secondary IDE channel, with a generic 48X ROM as slave, and an nVidia GeForce 4 MX 440 based GA with 64 MB and dual heads.

Is it even worth it to try to play with it and overclock? Just for reference, I have 20 80 mm Fans pushing through, and I bought the ThermalTake Dragon Orb w/ the Switch, so I can definitely cool it, but I am wondering if my motherboard is not going to like it or not - last time I played with the settings (such as freq mult) I changed it from 100 to 101 and it would not boot, so I had to go back to defaults.

Suggestions?

TIA
 

Mikki

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This is still one of the best and most useful threads ever, and the "new look" is great SCK, keep it up!!!!!! :D