System burn in. Yes or no.

[Fury190]

What, if any, method would you gents suggest for a brand spanking new system burn in. Got my 8kha+ and 512mb of crucial sitting here, xp 1600 on its way.

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[yodayoda]

go download SiSoft Sandra 2001 TE and have it run the burn-in wizard. do about 100 cpu and memory benchmarks. you can download that at Download.com.

 

[DaveSimmons]

...also go to www.simmtester.com and download their free memory tester -- I was having really odd problems with Win2K on an HP Pavillion until I discovered one of the 256 MB SDRAMs had a bad spot at the 210 MB mark -- it worked well enough to fool power-on self-test and because of the high location Win2K was running OK most of the time.

 

[Yvo]

I always do 12 hours of Prime95 testing and another 12 hours of SiSoft Sandra's burn-in wizard for all systems I build for all customers.

Since I know most of my customers will just use it for the internet, email, chatting and the occasional gaming. I do have exceptions when someone wants the "ultimate" gaming machine or for the highend AV editing... then I also include a 3dmark 2001 12 hour test...

I would fully recommend a burn in test

Yvo