On Friday 20 January 2006 02:16, Midnight Toker wrote: > Not really an option. > > I want to be able to test PCs running Windoze as well as Linux / > whatever else, so it cant really frag the harddrive. -Although i like > to think a Stage1 Gentoo build puts new boxes through their paces :) > > Any other ideas? Possibly something that could test sound/graphics/ > network... > > I suppose what I'm really looking for is a hardware benchmarking tool... >
no benchmark is not testing. There is no way to test a soundcard except using it. There is no way to test a harddrive except moving around lots and lots of data If you want to test network, copy around lots of data with scp/ftp and co If you want to test memory (because memtest86 is f* unreliable) there is no better way than compiling something big. cpuburn is a nice CPU test, but it does not show you PCI problems - which are pretty easy to find if you have a soundcard and use it, and a controller (scsi, ide) and shove some data from and to the connected drives while listening to music. Oh, btw, via and nvidia are both known for their crappy pci implementations with lots of quirks and depressing low pci performance. There is no better test than using. Benchmarking gives you some numbers, but it does not tell you, that your PCI bus corrupts every nth package or that your network card looses connections once in a while. It does not tell you anything about memory or harddrive errors. -- [email protected] mailing list
