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Survey: what do you consider stable?

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SuperPickle

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Doh!
Reading all over the ?net about overclocking and stability, I see many people say things like ?I have my t-bird xxc completely stable at yyy.? Some consider their machine stable if it can run Unreal for a few hours without a crash while others won?t claim stability unless they can continuously run Sandra?s Burn-in for a week. My question is--what does the collective voice of the Anand community consider ?stable??
 
Hmm, if you can keep your system up 24/7 for weeks on end doing whatever you do, that's stable. I always have SETI or UD running, surf the net, play games such as: UT, RTCW, DoD, AoE2, etc; running at 100% cpu utilization 24/7. My Hardware(WOWZA) runs completely stable, but I do have some problems with my Voodoo5 5500s hacked WinXP drivers(new WinXP drivers coming soon 🙂 ). If I avoid certain games, my system will keep running for weeks, maybe months, on end.
 
I consider my current machine stable. 🙂 Basically, I run SETI 24/7, browse online all the time, use Photoshop regularly, play MP3s, play games all the time, use 3D rendering programs, etc. My machine has no problems with applications crashing, slowdowns, lockups, reboots, etc...for periods of well over a week. I usually don't get beyond that, just because I'll end up rebooting for some reason, usually due to a software install.

That's stable
 
My rant:

Sandra Burn in Wizard is a joke... It was stable on my p4 for about 10 hours, but as soon as i ran Warcraft III, it crashed within 10 minutes.

I do concur that Prime95 is the ultimate in testing system stability, especially if you have it running on several different processes.
 
Thanks for all the replies. I see a sort of consensus on Prime95 coupled with a 3D pounding proggie.

dexvx,
Why is Sandra crappy? My sys has been running Seti 24/7 for months and has ripped piles of DVDs with no apparent problems but firing up Burn-in last night, it locked after about 1/2 hour--twice, so something must be a little off-kilter.

Does anyone have any thoughts on the program 'HotCPU Tester Pro' by Opuswear? This proggie heats my chip up as hot as anything. Thanks again.
 
Hmm, if you can keep your system up 24/7 for weeks on end doing whatever you do, that's stable.

Agreed

I don't really care about Sandra's Burn In and Prime '95 test for 12 hours or so(then, when i got
the chance to enjoy my "stable" computer?), as long as all my apps runs smoothly and don't have
to restart all the time you run something, then it's stable. just my $.02
 


<< (or quake 3 torture test, etc) >>



Meaning? Is there a way to run QuakeIII unattended for hours like 3DMark's batch run? Specify plz....
 


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<< (or quake 3 torture test, etc) >>



Meaning? Is there a way to run QuakeIII unattended for hours like 3DMark's batch run? Specify plz.... >>

There is a timedemo that loops itself. Very intensive. Do a search on google for quake3 torture test demo.
 
I run Prime 95 overnight (12 hours) and monitor my temps. As for 3D I don't overclock much, but I do look for artifacts when playing games and sometimes use artifact tester to back it up.
 
The ability to run unhindered 24/7 running any non-beta software. I.e there is no such thing as far as desktops go, its sad really. I settle for my computer not crashing when i am doing something important i.e I don't mind much when games crash. Anything else is absolutely unnaccaptable
 
Running Prime 95 and/or looping 3Dmark 2001 for 10-12 hours for starters. Then fragging my favorite games for an unlimited amount of time. If I get one crash a week, sumthin' ain't right!
 
Prime 95 for 24 hours, simple as that. I don't understand why people think looping 3dmark proves anything in terms of CPU stability. Sure if your cpu is not even close to stable, 3dmark will crash, but 3dmark really stresses the video card, not today's screaming +2ghz cpu's.

On my system, the AGP and PCI bus is always in spec, so I never have to worry about a high AGP bus crashing my GF3. It is pretty much a given that if P95 runs for 24 hours, 3DMark would more easily do the same.
 
If running Prime95 or Burn-in or the like along with Q3A torture or 3DMark, what should the priorities be set to? It seems inefficient to run both if Quake is going to be hogging the priority and leaving Prime95 twiddling its thumbs waiting for a 'spare cycle.'
 
My system is stable... in my opinion, it runs for months on end ( it only stops running when i turn it off to get some sleep, not because it crashes 😛 )
I run seti 24/7 and do all my day to day stuff on it aswell. in my opinion you cant get any more stable!

for reference:-
t-bird 1.4 @ 1.442 (small overclock, because i want an oc'd system out of principle but dont want lots of noise from fans!)
ECS K7S5A
voodoo3, assorted hd's and cd drives
 


<< Hmm, if you can keep your system up 24/7 for weeks on end doing whatever you do, that's stable. >>



That's what i say 🙂

I run my system AMD Athlon 1.0@1.467 (when i reinstall CPUFSB, just upgraded to WinXP), currently at 1.333GHz on a K7S5A, and that can run for weeks without needing to restart, only times i restart it is if i take it to a mate's or install software, other than that it does what i want it to (Seti@home, email, web, games, mp3s) without a hiccup! 🙂


Confused
 


<< I don't understand why people think looping 3dmark proves anything in terms of CPU stability. >>


If you're close to the edge on your CPU overclock, the extra heat from your maxxed-out video card could push you over. It doesn't matter if you can Prime95 all week long if the heat from your video card takes you down after 10 minutes of your favorite game.


<< It seems inefficient to run both if Quake is going to be hogging the priority and leaving Prime95 twiddling its thumbs waiting for a 'spare cycle.' >>


Priority shouldn't matter too much. The main purpose of using Prime95 in this case is to put a full load on your CPU. If Quake is "stealing" cycles from Prime95, those cycles are still being used for something and you still have 100% CPU utilization.

For my own personal purposes, I don't like the "If it does what you normally do without crashing, it's stable." statement. I know that sooner or later (usually sooner) I'm going to do something I don't "normally" do such as trying out a new piece of software. It's nice to have already tested for worst possible *realistic* case. That way, if I have problems with new software, I can be more sure that it's not OC related.
 
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