Stress Test MK II

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I posted the information on page 12. The last one was a ASUS P5ND2 Deluxe with an NF4 chipset, but the third board was the ASUS P5LD2 Deluxe and it is an i945 chipset. It has 2 x16 sized PCI-e slots, but the second one is actualy run through the southbridge and is a 2 or 4x slot. The other slot is 16x all the time.

I think at this point the benchmark scores are completely worthless, but the stability test is. The fact that the P-EE system has been down about 10 times in 4 days and about 36 hours total. They has swapped out half the parts... Lets see if they can keep the system stable now.

I really think an Antec 550 TP2 power supply would have been a much better power supply. The voltages are much bette with only one card and this was an 850w power supply with 30 amps on the 5 and 3.3v rails a a total of 4 12v rails with 17 amps each. That is a mighty powersupply based on specs, but in real world it fell way short. Both systems had very unstable voltages do to the extra draw the second card in SLI was drawing. This is sad since these were only GeForce6800GT and not Ultras (which draw about 20w more each). They had to fall back on Antec last time, but they desided to run some new PC Power and Cooling ones instead. Antec is well proven PCP&C is not. Three of my systems have Antec TP power supplies (430, 480, and 550w).
 
Actually I'm a regular at Hardware Central... under the same handle. I don't generally post at other places. I was mostly looking to see if THG was posting any info on the stress test here. I was pretty happy that they finally did update at least some of the things. They did not say why they swapped the boards and memory and pulled the second card. They are like a day behind or more. I think they want to find out what caused it all.

I actually registered here a long time ago, but never posted. I had to have my password e-mailed to me. Oh well.

I'm not too sure who "spud" is. I'm pretty much and AMD fan boy as 5 out of 6 of my systems are AMD... Duron600, AthlonXP 1600+, 1800+, 2500+M, and Athlon64 3500+. I do have a P4 2.2Ghz laptop though. 😀 I'm also an ATI fanboy too, but I have a mix of cards from a GeForce2 GTS, GeForce4 Ti4200, Radeon 9600, Radeon 9700Pro AIW, and an x700Pro 256. The laptop has a GeForce4MX 420-Go. If I could insert pictures I would show you my case mods... well I have not mod'd my laptop.. yet. 😛
 
Yes be sure to ask for wingding he'll show you around

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one thath will go wrong first will be the one that will do the most possible damage
 
Sorry endyen, I agree with Xeon or spud ,tatortot, Xeon might play favorites and voice contorversial opinions. But he's nothing compared to this clown.

IMHO anyway.

If I glanced at a spilt box of tooth picks on the floor, could I tell you how many are in the pile. Not a chance, But then again I don't have to buy my underware at Kmart.
 
now you turn to insulting all AMD users, nice...

your either ignorant or just out to insult anyone that doesnt agree with you. thats not how you discuss things in a proper way. your the only one sounding like a teenager to me.
 
This pig dude has taught me an important leason. If you have HT enabled, and are running a game, with lots of background bs progs, you will loose a lot of perf. Just like the stuff spud said about prescott.
 
Hay It a shame Porkster talk from his ( ! ). He dont have any brians.

Well when do pigs have brains. Next time I eat bacon I remember how dumb you have shown your self.
 
" "Intel's ICH6R SouthBridge, now featuring RAID -1"

"RAID-minus-one?"

"Yeah. You have two hard drives, neither of which can actually boot." "

Nicest signature ive seen in a while. Gonna laugh all morning from this one 😀 Thank you 😀

PS: Intel system restarted again and is idling hmmmm...

Sofar the scores (not that they matter much) seems perform the same as before. The amd leads on winrar and farcry. The cd encoding was about the same until the intel crashed and now the x2 is pulling past the intel. x2 is behind on divx (idle thread right?). The same as before.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by NT78stonewobble on 06/08/05 01:44 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
 
I wish they'd hurry up and get that Intel machine back up and running.

Nice though it is to see at least one of the platforms being ultra stable it is a bit boring to watch.

The Intel machine doing it's 'Yo-yo' impression is far more enthralling!

Nice to see they've added figures for all 4 logical cores on the Intel 24 hour graph.

Addition: Yeah! They must have heard me, FarCry is being loaded on the Intel box!

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<font color=green>AMD</font color=green> Athlon64, Abit AV8.
<font color=blue>Intel</font color=blue> Dual PIII, Asus P2B-DS.
<font color=blue>VIA</font color=blue> Epia M9000.
<font color=red>I</font color=red><font color=green>B</font color=green><font color=blue>M</font color=blue> Thinkpad 570E.
 
Poor CPU, the temp is already at 76 degrees!

Sorry, make that 85!

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<font color=green>AMD</font color=green> Athlon64, Abit AV8.
<font color=blue>Intel</font color=blue> Dual PIII, Asus P2B-DS.
<font color=blue>VIA</font color=blue> Epia M9000.
<font color=red>I</font color=red><font color=green>B</font color=green><font color=blue>M</font color=blue> Thinkpad 570E.
 
Hehe! Don't worry, the Intel box only managed about 10 hours. There will be plenty more times to catch them messing!


Edit: Spoke too soon, it's back on the desktop!
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<font color=green>AMD</font color=green> Athlon64, Abit AV8.
<font color=blue>Intel</font color=blue> Dual PIII, Asus P2B-DS.
<font color=blue>VIA</font color=blue> Epia M9000.
<font color=red>I</font color=red><font color=green>B</font color=green><font color=blue>M</font color=blue> Thinkpad 570E.
 
>Those people at THG are lazy bumhole...

No, they have to let the 840EE cool down before they dare to approach it, let alone touch it. Third degree burns are quite painfull 😀

= The views stated herein are my personal views, and not necessarily the views of my wife. =
 
Hey! THG!

Can you sort the graphs out?! The AMD 24 hour graph is the only one still going. Or have you lost all the data? Or is it too embarrasing to show the Intel graphs? All that down time and heat etc...

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<font color=green>AMD</font color=green> Athlon64, Abit AV8.
<font color=blue>Intel</font color=blue> Dual PIII, Asus P2B-DS.
<font color=blue>VIA</font color=blue> Epia M9000.
<font color=red>I</font color=red><font color=green>B</font color=green><font color=blue>M</font color=blue> Thinkpad 570E.
 
Hi all this is my first post on here.
This is one of the funniest threads ive read in ages!!!

What i wanted to say is that I wish they kept the AMD
running, and if they could have setup another AMD minus
the SLI to compete against the Microwave... sorry I
ment intel

It would have just been nice to see how far that it could have gone
 
Looks like the Intel machine is having yet more issues. There's a dialog box up and FarCry has frozen.

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<font color=green>AMD</font color=green> Athlon64, Abit AV8.
<font color=blue>Intel</font color=blue> Dual PIII, Asus P2B-DS.
<font color=blue>VIA</font color=blue> Epia M9000.
<font color=red>I</font color=red><font color=green>B</font color=green><font color=blue>M</font color=blue> Thinkpad 570E.
 
Good idea.

As it already reached over 100 hours, though, we may have had to wait a loooong time for it to admit defeat!

Still, would've been nice.

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<font color=green>AMD</font color=green> Athlon64, Abit AV8.
<font color=blue>Intel</font color=blue> Dual PIII, Asus P2B-DS.
<font color=blue>VIA</font color=blue> Epia M9000.
<font color=red>I</font color=red><font color=green>B</font color=green><font color=blue>M</font color=blue> Thinkpad 570E.
 
The Intel machine is off again!
More hands are messing in the case.

Note the AMD machine is using 267 watts. With SLI it was running at 345 watts. Nearly 80 watts per VGA card. Wow!

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<font color=green>AMD</font color=green> Athlon64, Abit AV8.
<font color=blue>Intel</font color=blue> Dual PIII, Asus P2B-DS.
<font color=blue>VIA</font color=blue> Epia M9000.
<font color=red>I</font color=red><font color=green>B</font color=green><font color=blue>M</font color=blue> Thinkpad 570E.
 
How long did it run this time at the about 90 c?

15 - 20 mins?

Ahhh theyr fiddling with the cooler now... Removing the fan as far as I can se?...

Next picture looks like he burnt his hand ... waving it around... LOL<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by NT78stonewobble on 06/08/05 07:03 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
 
The dialogue box sais [message from P4 HT (high-temperature edition with two heater units)]:
''Pardon me, i have just killed something on that board again, mayb the graphics card ;( - but don't worry, it's just a minor issue. please contact manufacturers of hardware that seems to be unoperational (if it's not intel).'' Warning!!! If the processor fails to throttle down, DO NOT approach it without certified fire protection gear and an extinguissher!
 
I think I just saw them change the PSU

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by kps on 06/08/05 07:06 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
 
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