Agreed, David. My experience is that a machine that fails the prime95 torture test is much more likely to have lock-ups / crashes, even if only occasionally. And crashing during a long video encoding job or game session is definitely undesirable, never mind in a presentation. The test often gives a quick result, and it's a definite result.
Maybe Dell support would be more familiar with memtest & believe its result? Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's been mostly stable otherwise, although there have been a few times when > the system locked up and had to be forcibly rebooted. Of course I won't be > running the torture test all the time, but I will be running Prime95, and I > consider a system defective if it can't pass the test. Otherwise, what is the > point of having the torture test at all? > > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: Keith Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Um, gee, David. Not to sound flippant, but did you intend to use that >> new computer for anything _ELSE_ besides running a prime95 torture test, >> or is that all you bought it for? >> >> How does it perform doing *ordinary* tasks? You know, like >> word-processing, gaming, Internet browsing? >> >> Keith Alexander >> Detroit, MI >> >> -- >> America has sunk to its lowest level. >> All we produce here now is debt, WalMarts >> and morons--one of whom we periodically >> let into the White House. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Prime mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime >> > > _______________________________________________ > Prime mailing list > [email protected] > http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime > > _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
