How long before it hangs?.......

[Stallion]

I bought a 700E cb0 thats gaurenteed (sp) to do 933 but I have been at 868 for a few weeks now because I was worried that my 770 ultra and/or my ram(Corsair PC100) wouldn't be able to cut the 133 FSB. It did 120 with the ram at CAS2 but to get to 124 I had to go to CAS3. So this mornin I thought I would try it so I set it to 133 and it booted right up and loaded windows no problem with default voltage. I only kept it there for a few minutes as I was trying to figure out a internet problem.

Question is , when will I know if it won't cut the mustard. If it boots am I good to go or do I need to try some games, let SETI run, just leave it be for a few hours? What's the best way to test it out.

thanks.

 

[subhuman]

prime95 and sandra, quake3 loop, seti. use them all for a couple hours, if its stable, you're set, if not, add a golden orb (personal choice due to low noise) or alpha, raise the voltage a little, and repeat.

 

[IaPuP]

If you're only wondering about the AGP and SDRAM speeds (and you know the CPU can handle it) you can pretty much skip Prime95 and those.

Play some games. Open Quake 3 or something and crank the resolution up a bit and let it run for an hour.

Sandra can do some decent 'synthetic' testing, but things like Quade and 3dmark are the most brutal on the system. Especially with a TNT2 vid card- lots of data going thru the bus to the AGP card...

Eric

 

[Stallion]

Sweet , thanks for the advice. subhuman, I have me a Gorb also.

well I'm off to see what she can do...

 

[Stallion]

Ok, here are some preliminary results. It booted and I ran some Half-Life for about 20 minutes with no problems. I then went out side and just now when I came in it was hung...

It ran for over 2 hours as a SETI unit was almost done when I booted it and now when I restarted it had done about 2 hours of another unit.

So it must have been stable for that long but I'm wondering if my RAM just gave out after awhile...Any clues?

 

[overdoze]

did you up the volt to 1.70V, 1.75 etc. I got a chip only running stable at 1.7V and not higher or lower ain't that wierd?

 

[Stallion]

I left the voltage stock. Since I restarted it a while ago it has been fine for over 4 hours. How do you know that you need to add voltage? Is there something I need to look for?

 

[subhuman]

hangs == you need more voltage or more cooling. that's a sweet chip, most of the ones i have had need 1.7v to get 933 stable. well, maybe you do too.. ;-)

 

[compuwiz1]

Bud, that cpu is doing good if at default voltage. All indicators are that you could use a tad more..just to 1.7 or 1.75. That's not drastic and shouldnt result in much more heat.

 

[Losty]

dude...i ran all those programs before...ran fine for a day...but try cpu stability 6.0
this caused a blue screen after 13 hrs on my system...
and at other times...my system wouldn't wake up...so i decided it wasn't stable...