Heh I am totally for leaving my case open all the time. I use compressed air to clean it monthly. My memory is still going through testings but so far so good!
Extra note for you guys! I have a Zalman Al-cu at full rpms and the side of my case open all the time for better venting. :)
Ok I'm going offline for a 24hr memory test on my 2x256 Samsung chips.
Ps. These chips are not set to optimal or agressive settings just the stock 4,3,3,8 timings. :)
Thank you for your concern, I agree I should run memtest86 and will tonight just before I go to sleep. I have a Asus Nforce2 A7N8X Deluxe Rev 2.0. I have a SilenX 400W Power Supply, which I watched the voltage monitoring and didn't see anything dip just before my monitor turned blue then rebooted.
Conclusion:
His 3200+ with the stock cooler and his no name samsung ram is rock solid stable.
THANK YOU GUYS! ! ! !
ps. wish I could say the same for my 3200+, it crashes 1 minute into prime 95 with my cpu cooled to 40c :eek: and my mobo chipset @30c.. must be my memory, though heck I...
Update: I got the puter back and from 10pm - 6pm all small ffts tests passed so I presume the "windows is now shutting down" message has to do with windows updates which I have changed from auto download and install to auto download manual install ! What I am going to do now is run the large...
Still haven't got the computer back here as my cuz is still @high school.
I have a thought though I wish to share.. maybe the computer shutdown due to automatic updates, I will have to check that out! I will still run all of the tests I mentioned anyways.
Later!
ah forget it I will just bring the computer down here into my temperature controlled lab and run this torture test myself and throw some unreal championship 2004 at it for a good hour and see this job through myself :cool:. He can borrow my spare (micro atx!) windows xp computer for a few days.
I have some bad news ..I think.
Can anyone here confim this for me please?
I called my cousin today and he said the computer I put a new 3200+ amd barton in last night @10pm and started a small FFTS Torture Test at that time as well, said the next day @6pm: "windows is shutting down"...
Thanks guys this test is now running on my stock 3200+ 32 bit barton.
Operation temperature with the stock amd (copper bottom) cooler and stock voltage in a semi warm house(24c) is 62c/143f after 30 minutes of prime 95's small ffts test! all is stable so far.
which test should I choose from here?
Some info; My cousin's pc-3200 ram is good and this oem cpu will have the retail amd cooler designed for it. The internal case has dual intake fans running at high rpms and dual exaust fans and the power supply fan is dual as well so heat will not be a...