How Do You Determine System Stability?

[AkumaX]

You know, like, how can you determine a custom built computer "stable"?

Like, other than using Sandra 2003, Prime95, 3DMark, etc...

What do you determine a stable system?

 

[ScrapSilicon]

up for more than 20 days, burning/ripping DVDs,installing/uninstalling progs, holding too many IE pages open for too many days, etc. ...without rebooting.

 

[BentValve]

Prime 95 does a pretty good job, run it for a few days straight.

 

[Chaotic42]

If it can survive lots of BF1942, Photoshop, Bryce, and kernel compiles, it's stable to me.

 

[chizow]

I run Prime95, Memtest86, 3DMark when testing for hardware and system stability.

Any real world test is more a function of OS and driver stability and compatibility IMO.

Chiz

 

[BFG10K]

I just run my computer normally and do the things I do all the time. If I can use it at least a few days like that then I deem it stable.

If I'm suspicious of something then I run looping timedemos for several hours from a wide range of 3D games, preferably as many different ones as possible.

 

[RobCur]

can play divx movies for at least 30min and gaming 3o min, no crashes? good, very stable!

 

[ProviaFan]

If my system can endure weeks of my daily torturing it with hard work, then I deem it "stable enough" - however, if it fails Prime95 or Memtest86, it still isn't stable, despite what some people here like to think.

 

[0roo0roo]

use xp, patch it up all the way. then run stress test like prime95/games etc. see if it crashes

 

[Priit]

Stable = runs everything as should and never crashes unless I do something wrong (like fck up kernel . I may forgive 1 unexpected crash/restart a year but definately not more. I demand such stability both from hardware and software...

 

[BentValve]

Originally posted by: chizow


Any real world test is more a function of OS and driver stability and compatibility IMO.

Chiz

Yep , I agree 100%