Stress Test MK II

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Yeah, kinda is....OH WELL, I'm listening to music now and singing along really loudly (I think that's a little more sad).

Maxtor disgraces the six letters that make Matrox.
 
so.. after 6 motherboards, two psu's and god knows how many memory sticks and litres of thermal paste, the 840EE now averages 3 reboots every 12 hrs. Impressive ! I sure hope they have a VIA C3 server as backup for the 840EE that does the video serving 😀

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LOL!

On a separate note...the Intel system finally got its fan speed back up to a >2300 level. Too bad the computer is idling right now, I want to see how much that helps the temps.

The server isn't an 840EE....it's a Gallatin at 3.4GHz.

Maxtor disgraces the six letters that make Matrox.
 
Huh?

Oh, if anyone is interested, they wrote two pages about the fiasco with the NF4I boards that caused the Intel system to be non-existent in the competition for the first day or so...

Maxtor disgraces the six letters that make Matrox.
 
THG final put a second update. It seems we missed a motherboard in there. He tried a new Epox NF4 board and it fried after 10 minutes. I guess the Intel chipset boards are 955x boards (I thought they were 945), but the first one did not work. So yes they are on their 5th board right now. They have not said anything was changed other than that, but they are a day behind.

Yes the P-EE is down again and likely the counter is actually behind by one. It should be 4 going on 5... plus the 10 others. I think the only cure is a little gas and a match... well actually the systems is probably hot enough to ignite the gas. 😀

Its back up again and it looks like they fixed the temps.
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Todd_a on 06/08/05 01:16 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
 
OMG Look now !!
<A HREF="http://users.pandora.be/compas/stresstest/intel.html" target="_new"> http://www.tomshardware.com/stresstest/intel.html</A>

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>Its back up again and it looks like they fixed the temps.

Indeed. 70°C is still hot, but at least its credible and doable unlike the 90°C. I also see fan speed is up again where you'd expect it. Would they have been stupid enough not to connect the fan to the correct header or something ?

I figured the app reading the fan speeds was misreporting, but it seems correct.. are these guys THAT stupid not noticing ?

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No, everything was right...it scaled according to CPU usage. Why it never went higher is beyond me, though (sometimes that happens to my fan, actually...it just doesn't get up to full speed, but it's rare).

Maxtor disgraces the six letters that make Matrox.
 
Maybe they're just roasting porkster!

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
 
The reason the fan was running at a lower RPM is that it is temperature controlled, based on the temp of the heatsink and not the CPU. Likely one of the pins on the heatsink was not locked in right so the heatsink was not applying equal pressure across the heatspreader. The heat is not transfering well to the heatsink and the heatink stays cool, so they fan does not speed up.

The dumb thing is it did exactly the same thing the last time they did a stress test. You figure it would not take them almost a day to sort this out. Maybe the clip on the heatsink failed and they had to replace the heatsink with another one laying around the lab.

Maybe they can get it stable now. If it crashes in anything under 24 hours they better just get a new CPU and have this one tested by Intel so they can say why it failed.
 
AMDMan you really are a fool. It clear to see that the Intel system has had a rocky road due to the poor choice in equipment to start the experiment. Most of the items required to run the new Intel chips are in beta to first release versions!

Thom should be using an Intel reference board or a board from ABit or something.

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>Thom should be using a Intel reference board or a board from
>ABit or something.

Maybe if had you read the update, you would have seen they tried both, as well as 4 or 5 other motherboards.

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I wonder if they started to melt the case behind the motherboard and that is when they noticed the temps were so high. 😛
 
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