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Question about "burning in" a new system
I am currently in the process of building a system. I have in the past,
like many in this group, replaced just about everything in my systems. But, this is my first attempt at a complete system from scratch. I have noticed that many of the bigger gaming computer system companies (Alienware, Falcon, VooDoo) tout the fact that they put their systems through vigorous and time intensive tests to "burn in" the system and test it for overall performance. I have also noticed that many in this group have mentioned that they have run one program or another to do that very same thing. Is this something I should consider? and what programs can I run to really push my new system? BTW, I am putting together a relatively high end system... Also, sorry if this is running on and on... I have put the kids to bed and had a few drinks. Tomorrow, this may all look like gibberish. hehe ) Mr. Mom |
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I would not worry about it too much, you can get sysoft sandra and use
it... Just do a search for it on downloads.com... Mr.Mom wrote: I am currently in the process of building a system. I have in the past, like many in this group, replaced just about everything in my systems. But, this is my first attempt at a complete system from scratch. I have noticed that many of the bigger gaming computer system companies (Alienware, Falcon, VooDoo) tout the fact that they put their systems through vigorous and time intensive tests to "burn in" the system and test it for overall performance. I have also noticed that many in this group have mentioned that they have run one program or another to do that very same thing. Is this something I should consider? and what programs can I run to really push my new system? BTW, I am putting together a relatively high end system... Also, sorry if this is running on and on... I have put the kids to bed and had a few drinks. Tomorrow, this may all look like gibberish. hehe ) Mr. Mom |
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plug it in and let it run for a day
"Mr.Mom" wrote in message ... I am currently in the process of building a system. I have in the past, like many in this group, replaced just about everything in my systems. But, this is my first attempt at a complete system from scratch. I have noticed that many of the bigger gaming computer system companies (Alienware, Falcon, VooDoo) tout the fact that they put their systems through vigorous and time intensive tests to "burn in" the system and test it for overall performance. I have also noticed that many in this group have mentioned that they have run one program or another to do that very same thing. Is this something I should consider? and what programs can I run to really push my new system? BTW, I am putting together a relatively high end system... Also, sorry if this is running on and on... I have put the kids to bed and had a few drinks. Tomorrow, this may all look like gibberish. hehe ) Mr. Mom |
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If you want to "Burn-in" your system run folding@home from
http://folding.stanford.edu for a day or so. It pegs your CPU for the good of humanity best of all it is designed to run in the background so you can still use the system fine. If your worried about the graphics play some UT2K3 and raise your resolution to 1600x1200 w/ the setting maxxed for an hour or so. ~Eric "BigJim" wrote in message news:vYJSb.148588$5V2.794013@attbi_s53... plug it in and let it run for a day "Mr.Mom" wrote in message ... I am currently in the process of building a system. I have in the past, like many in this group, replaced just about everything in my systems. But, this is my first attempt at a complete system from scratch. I have noticed that many of the bigger gaming computer system companies (Alienware, Falcon, VooDoo) tout the fact that they put their systems through vigorous and time intensive tests to "burn in" the system and test it for overall performance. I have also noticed that many in this group have mentioned that they have run one program or another to do that very same thing. Is this something I should consider? and what programs can I run to really push my new system? BTW, I am putting together a relatively high end system... Also, sorry if this is running on and on... I have put the kids to bed and had a few drinks. Tomorrow, this may all look like gibberish. hehe ) Mr. Mom |
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 08:47:23 GMT, "BigJim"
wrote : plug it in and let it run for a day "Mr.Mom" wrote in message ... I am currently in the process of building a system. I have in the past, like many in this group, replaced just about everything in my systems. But, this is my first attempt at a complete system from scratch. I have noticed that many of the bigger gaming computer system companies (Alienware, Falcon, VooDoo) tout the fact that they put their systems through vigorous and time intensive tests to "burn in" the system and test it for overall performance. I have also noticed that many in this group have mentioned that they have run one program or another to do that very same thing. Is this something I should consider? and what programs can I run to really push my new system? BTW, I am putting together a relatively high end system... Also, sorry if this is running on and on... I have put the kids to bed and had a few drinks. Tomorrow, this may all look like gibberish. hehe ) Mr. Mom Go here and download Prime 95 then run it for 6 - 24 hours, it the program over clockers use to test the stability of their systems. http://ocwarehouse.com/downloads/ RedBack |
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on Sat January 31 2004 12:05 am, Mr.Mom decided to enlighten us with:
I am currently in the process of building a system. I have in the past, like many in this group, replaced just about everything in my systems. But, this is my first attempt at a complete system from scratch. I have noticed that many of the bigger gaming computer system companies (Alienware, Falcon, VooDoo) tout the fact that they put their systems through vigorous and time intensive tests to "burn in" the system and test it for overall performance. I have also noticed that many in this group have mentioned that they have run one program or another to do that very same thing. Is this something I should consider? and what programs can I run to really push my new system? BTW, I am putting together a relatively high end system... Also, sorry if this is running on and on... I have put the kids to bed and had a few drinks. Tomorrow, this may all look like gibberish. hehe ) There is a free download version of SiSoft Sandra that has a burn-in module. This is used mainly to stress test an overclocked machine to make sure it's stable and running cool. You'd never want to do something like defrag the system without making sure an overclocked machine is absolutely stable. -- Big Daddy Ruel Smith My SuSE Linux machine uptime: 9:35am up 5 days 0:10, 2 users, load average: 0.36, 0.57, 0.37 My Windows XP machine uptime: Something less... |
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Mr.Mom wrote:
I am currently in the process of building a system. I have in the past, like many in this group, replaced just about everything in my systems. But, this is my first attempt at a complete system from scratch. I have noticed that many of the bigger gaming computer system companies (Alienware, Falcon, VooDoo) tout the fact that they put their systems through vigorous and time intensive tests to "burn in" the system and test it for overall performance. I have also noticed that many in this group have mentioned that they have run one program or another to do that very same thing. Is this something I should consider? and what programs can I run to really push my new system? Prime95, SiSoft SANDRA, Toast.exe, Super Pi and 3DMark2001SE are all good tools to stress various hardware components. www.Mersenne.org http://www.sisoftware.net/ http://majorgeeks.com/download867.html http://pw1.netcom.com/~hjsmith/Pi/Super_Pi.html http://www.futuremark.com/download/?3dmark2001.shtml |
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:05:50 -0700, "Mr.Mom"
wrote: I am currently in the process of building a system. I have in the past, like many in this group, replaced just about everything in my systems. But, this is my first attempt at a complete system from scratch. first install OS & programs you use, than optimise everything there & than make Ghosted copy of the sistem before you start forcing Burn-in after few days of normal work & maybe OC-ing later. Do it slowly that machine "settles" down in a month or so ... so you can be sure, that if anything screws later was not bad hardware or bad installations involved! -- Regards, SPAJKY ® & visit my site @ http://www.spajky.vze.com "Tualatin OC-ed / BX-Slot1 / inaudible setup!" E-mail AntiSpam: remove ## |
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