Ok guys, my RAM came back from being RMAed, and I'm testing the system. First off, thanks to everybody for helping me pick through my first build in many years, this place is great 
Silly quick question, but would it be considered stable if SP2004 ran for 14 hours and 45 minutes? I had to shut the PC off, it had absolutly nothing to do with stability issues, as it was still running fine and temps were cool. When I stopped SP2004, it said both cores had 0 errors. I havent done any overclocking yet, everything is default, but after my RAM situation, I want to make sure everything is fine.
I'll run memtest later on, when I can get a spare CD-R to burn the ISO version (dont want to waste a DVD-R, but I might have to). Silly quick question on this subject, but how long is it recommended you run memtest?
Thanks guys!
BTW, if anybody is interested, here's what my old PC was at:
3DMark03: 1334
3DMark05/06: Can't run
PCMark05: 1244 (took a half hour to load the program)
AquaMark: Total score of 15217
SuperPi: 1M in 1m43s, 32M in 1h33m10s
So yeah, I'm enjoying this new system a lot already.
I couldn't help myself and, before running any stress tests, I played through Prey (in one sitting) and about 4 hours of FEAR, so I guess those count as stress tests too.
Silly quick question, but would it be considered stable if SP2004 ran for 14 hours and 45 minutes? I had to shut the PC off, it had absolutly nothing to do with stability issues, as it was still running fine and temps were cool. When I stopped SP2004, it said both cores had 0 errors. I havent done any overclocking yet, everything is default, but after my RAM situation, I want to make sure everything is fine.
I'll run memtest later on, when I can get a spare CD-R to burn the ISO version (dont want to waste a DVD-R, but I might have to). Silly quick question on this subject, but how long is it recommended you run memtest?
Thanks guys!
BTW, if anybody is interested, here's what my old PC was at:
3DMark03: 1334
3DMark05/06: Can't run
PCMark05: 1244 (took a half hour to load the program)
AquaMark: Total score of 15217
SuperPi: 1M in 1m43s, 32M in 1h33m10s
So yeah, I'm enjoying this new system a lot already.