On Thursday 28 August 2003 01:22 am, Tom Brinkman wrote:
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> I know y'all believe memtest86 is _THE_ test, an I confess I run
> it first too. But it's a weak test. It sort'a sux. Better is
> mprime's #17, the torture test. Harder still, the acid test is,
> cpuburn's 'burnK7'. One or two passes with memtest is a breeze, run
> mprime's torture test thru test #1800 or so, run burnK7 for 25
> minutes ..... then you know your hardware is stable. So far I am
> with an XP core at 2301, CL2.5-2-2-2 DDR427.
Tom, I know you remember when I was having the spontaneous reboot problems?
Well, you're right about memtest - I ran it overnight 2/3 different times and
never found anything - cpuburn....now thats *another* story!
> So I gott'a XP Whatever (3600+?) that RUNS like a scalded ape.
> Glibc compiles are a lot shorter ;) No Winsux ;)
You're better off. :-)
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