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OC Diagnostics via Bootable Flash or CD-ROM Image

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I'm putting together a new Phenom II X6 soon and will be overclocking it.

So was wondering if anywhere in the overclocking community I can download flash or CD images that boots into a lightweight Linux? This bootable Linux must include stress test utilities like Prime95 and memtest86 and maybe other useful OC tools I don't know about.

I am of the opinion of getting all the hardware tested out and OC tweaked before even putting any of my real OS stuff on it. This bootable Linux on a USB flash drive makes perfect sense if such a thing exists. Just don't want to re-invent the wheel if its already there.

BTW, I overclock through the dip switches or the BIOS -- not through the crappy Windows desktop utilities so a Linux boot utility is fine for me.
 
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This would be a nice. If you find any please post. If not I'll try to find some time to put some thing together.
 
Piece of cake, make an Ubuntu 10.04 on a USB Stick with some space reserved for Prime95, Y-Cruncher and any other util you may find usefull, boots fast runs perfect and does the job fine, just remember that Linux or FreeBSD has different *tolerances* on overclocked systems, especially if you compile and optimize the entire OS for the CPU, FreeBSD does that and it rocks on AMD64, a complete *make world* on FreeBSD 64bit is one of the most cool OC tests around. 🙂
 
Maybe as a start, we can start putting down all known useful Linux and Windows OC utilities and apps? Here's what I've gathered but there's got to be dozens more.

Linux
  • memtest86 (I don't think this one can run in an OS. Also, is there finally a 64-bit version?)
  • Prime95
  • Y-Cruncher

Windows
(Windows bootable disc can be made from BartPE though I've never used it)

Just to highlight that the important thing is, whether Linux or Windows, is that they are bootable from Flash USB or DVD-ROM. You don't want to do initial OC or OC limit testing on an actual usable/production OS because it can corrupt your operating system files and boot up of a full OS is slow.
 
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