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I have purchased my first upgrade parts in over two years (was upgrading near Turkey Day every year for the last eight). I went for my first Intel chip since my old Cellery back in the day.
My setup:
Q6600 G0
PCP&C Silencer 750
Tuniq Tower 120 cooler with AC5
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6
4gb (4x1) Crucial Ballistix PC6400
~1200 GB storage (4x320 Maxtors in RAID 5)
Samsung 20x SATA
BFG 7800 GT OC (temporary until Dell ships my 8800 GT)
Vista 32bit (yes I know it's not seeing all my RAM)
All crammed into a CoolerMaster Cosmos case (damn its heavy)
MY QUESTION(s):
Running the system up at 3.3GHz with memory at 868MHz, memory with 4-4-4-15 (not 12) timings and at 2.2v, all else being set to default -- I ran up 4 instances of Prime95 using the -A0 through -A3 shortcut settings. I was able to run the "Torture" test on all processors completing Test 1 without a problem. A1 failed during the second test, A3 failed during the fourth test, A0 failed during the fifth test, and A2 failed during the seventh test.
At this point I am looking for some advice on running a burn-in program (if so, which one?) and any suggestions on moving along with the OC to make sure I am stable. What would be good tests as I go? Is there anything that I can run that could be run without having to boot Vista to test both memory and CPU (perhaps burn a CD with some image?). I ask because of how long it takes to get into Vista, but am concerned that I wont be testing the cores correctly without something like Vista to address them all...
Any suggestions would be appreciated, I am going to be reading the sticky article of this forum now...
My setup:
Q6600 G0
PCP&C Silencer 750
Tuniq Tower 120 cooler with AC5
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6
4gb (4x1) Crucial Ballistix PC6400
~1200 GB storage (4x320 Maxtors in RAID 5)
Samsung 20x SATA
BFG 7800 GT OC (temporary until Dell ships my 8800 GT)
Vista 32bit (yes I know it's not seeing all my RAM)
All crammed into a CoolerMaster Cosmos case (damn its heavy)
MY QUESTION(s):
Running the system up at 3.3GHz with memory at 868MHz, memory with 4-4-4-15 (not 12) timings and at 2.2v, all else being set to default -- I ran up 4 instances of Prime95 using the -A0 through -A3 shortcut settings. I was able to run the "Torture" test on all processors completing Test 1 without a problem. A1 failed during the second test, A3 failed during the fourth test, A0 failed during the fifth test, and A2 failed during the seventh test.
At this point I am looking for some advice on running a burn-in program (if so, which one?) and any suggestions on moving along with the OC to make sure I am stable. What would be good tests as I go? Is there anything that I can run that could be run without having to boot Vista to test both memory and CPU (perhaps burn a CD with some image?). I ask because of how long it takes to get into Vista, but am concerned that I wont be testing the cores correctly without something like Vista to address them all...
Any suggestions would be appreciated, I am going to be reading the sticky article of this forum now...