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Just curious whether anyone is dissatisfied witht he current state of testing motherboards and computer hardware in general.
What brings this up for me is that I now need to build a new system with a quad core and at least 8Gb of ram. This is going to be my new "work" box at home, where I'll be running engineering & number-crunching apps as well as rendering visualizations. (moving on up to 64bit XP - hit the 2Gb 32bit limit too many times.)
All hardware sites that seem to test systems and components only use 2 Gb of the fastest ram they can find, but not one has tested any motherboards fully loaded with max ram for performance or stability.
Just noticed that the new Giga-byte AMD chipset mobos will now support 16Gb of ram. So...how stable are the new (any) mobos, and how much performance does one loose when all the memory slots are full? How's the overclocking stability when the ram is maxed out? Could it be that some mobos don't function properly with the maximum amount of ram loaded?
It would be realy helpfull to run a few stability tests on the latest and greatest, seeing as the capability of the hardware is there. I think that any mobo will run well on the minimum, but load'em up and see what they'll do.
Just my 2 cents (strike that - it's 2 bits now) worth.
What brings this up for me is that I now need to build a new system with a quad core and at least 8Gb of ram. This is going to be my new "work" box at home, where I'll be running engineering & number-crunching apps as well as rendering visualizations. (moving on up to 64bit XP - hit the 2Gb 32bit limit too many times.)
All hardware sites that seem to test systems and components only use 2 Gb of the fastest ram they can find, but not one has tested any motherboards fully loaded with max ram for performance or stability.
Just noticed that the new Giga-byte AMD chipset mobos will now support 16Gb of ram. So...how stable are the new (any) mobos, and how much performance does one loose when all the memory slots are full? How's the overclocking stability when the ram is maxed out? Could it be that some mobos don't function properly with the maximum amount of ram loaded?
It would be realy helpfull to run a few stability tests on the latest and greatest, seeing as the capability of the hardware is there. I think that any mobo will run well on the minimum, but load'em up and see what they'll do.
Just my 2 cents (strike that - it's 2 bits now) worth.