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Subject: Re: Some Crafty 16.19 results on my XP 2.44GHz

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 14:10:05 02/19/03

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On February 19, 2003 at 16:30:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 19, 2003 at 14:48:34, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>
>>On February 19, 2003 at 11:43:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>I'm saying you will get a few random bugs by doing so.  I refuse to tolerate
>>>inconsistent
>>>behavior.
>>>
>>>The vendors market chips at a particular clock frequency for a _reason_.
>>
>>As I said in previous posts my chip is 100% stable, tested with Prime95 and
>>memtest86. It is absolutely rock-solid. I can boot into linux and setup a shell
>>account and you can spend all day trying to crash it if you'd like, it won't
>>happen though.
>
>
>So?  The chip we had the problem with had _also_ run perfectly with all the
>"overclocker
>benchmarks" available.  But it failed on a real application.  I don't have the
>time to deal with
>that...

What "overclocker benchmarks" did you use? Anything other than Prime95,
Memtest86 and Burnk7 is pretty much useless for testing the stability of the
cpu/memory. Other programs MAY do such a thing but not nearly as well. As I said
before, go ahead and try to crash my CPU via overclocking instabilities. Won't
happen. ;) If I ran 2.6GHz, yeah. It'll be unstable. 2.46GHz is 100% rock solid
stable and I'd be willing to bet my entire system on it, too.

Prime95 runs on linux too by the way, if you want a copy go to
http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.html
Right now it appears their server is down though, thats not usual so check back
every so often. Also, www.memtest86.com. If you haven't tested your memory with
that you may want to give it a shot.



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