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Quote:

Originally Posted by JPMiller

I use a combination of things...
For personal testing...
Memtest
CPU Burn-in
Video Card Stability test
and whatever flavor of 3D Mark is appropriate to the system specs

I also run Prime for at least overnight

For customers, I like to run PC Pitstop's tests so they have a 3rd party estimation of the system as a whole...

As well as some other random options
Passmark

Here are the specs of the system that I want to test,

Motherboard - ASUS M2N-E SLI Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 500 SLI MCP ATX AMD

Processor - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+(65W) Windsor 2.4GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2

Video Card - SAPPHIRE 100164L Radeon X1650PRO 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16

Hard Drive - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA

Optical Drive - LITE-ON Beige 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM ATAPI/E-IDE DVD Burner with LightScribe Technology

Memory - CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel

Power Supply - XCLIO GOODPOWER 500W ATX 500W Power Supply 115/230

OS - Microsoft Windows XP Professional With SP2B