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There is a nice burn-in tool included that will thrash your system continuously and report any errors. Having said that, I must add that nothing seems to thrash my system as bad and heat it up as quickly as my Goes-8 satellite method. It brings the full power load of my GeForce4 card to bare in addition to the CPU load and its very simple to use if you don't really care about the numbers.. Sincerely, Tim Hutcheson Institute for Human and Machine Cognition University of West Florida 40 South Alcaniz St. Pensacola, FL 32501 --------------------------------- "There are 10 types of people in the world; those that read binary and those that don't." -- Anonymous Poster -- -----Original Message----- From: Terry Harris [mailto:terry.harris@;iname.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 11:10 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] [OT] memory testing and benchmarking - programs On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:46:25 -0500, Tim Hutcheson wrote: >Seems that my server was blocking me from this group for awhile so I'll >repost this since the discussion is ongoing. A simple CPU/video torture >test is to go to the NASA Goes-8 weather satellite, >http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goes8hurrir.html, select all previous 30 >images and then animate. When the animation starts, click on faster until >all the delay is gone. Image will blur out on the faster CPU's and your >temperatures will start rising rapidly as the video pipeline and the CPU >work to sustain the data flow. Simple and effective. A batch file :loop goto loop also uses 100% CPU and proves about as much. The Self test in Prime95 is an excellent system stabilty test. It thrashes the system processor, cache and memory (always 100% CPU usage for me) and most importantly verifies they functioned correctly. Apparently stable systems do fail running Prime95 which is probably why they felt the need for a built in self test. Cheers, Terry. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:proteledaforum@;techservinc.com * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:ForumAdministrator@;TechServInc.com * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@;techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
