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I'm thinking that my new CPU is a p.o.s or its the ram or motherboard.
my reasons:
Orthos running the test: Large, In-place FFTs - stress some RAM
my system will last from 4 seconds to 1 min 18 seconds so far as the best all the other tests run fine (6hours). The super pi fails periodically after 512k i finally got one 1m run.

i still suspect that its just the combo that i am using

Abit K9N SLI
X2 4600+
2gb DDR2 800 (adata lol)

i think it may be just crappy ram, and could explain the intermittent problems with super pi. but have swapped that out and tried OCZ ddr2 800 and the same thing happens.


i do plan on doing some low end overclocking on either option that i choose


if i change my setup i think ill try a Intel setup P965/OCZ 2gb DDR800/E6420 and just overclock it


any opinions comments would be greatly appreciated.

edit Orthos log

Type: Large, in-place FFTs - stress some RAM Min: 128 Max: 1024 InPlace: Yes Mem: 8 Time: 15
CPU: 2399MHz FSB: 200MHz [199MHz x 12.0 est.]
CPU: 2400MHz FSB: 200MHz [200MHz x 12.0 est.]
5/3/2007 11:31 AM
Launching 2 threads...
2:Using CPU #1
1:Using CPU #0
2:Beginning a continuous self-test to check your computer.
1:Beginning a continuous self-test to check your computer.
2:Press Stop to end this test.
1:Press Stop to end this test.
2:Test 1, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922945 using 1024K FFT length.
1:Test 1, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922945 using 1024K FFT length.
2:FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4
2:Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
2:Torture Test ran 0 minutes 8 seconds - 1 errors, 0 warnings.
2:Execution halted.

1:Torture Test ran 0 minutes 10 seconds - 0 errors, 0 warnings.
1:Execution halted.

http://www.memtest.org/

Run this and see if it throws up errors.

Dan

no errors at all took about an hour to test. but passed. so the ram is good. hmmm super pal sometimes get a an error bad round or something about SQR not sure if that matters but yeah

Is your system new?

yeah i had a 3700+ overclocked to 29gh for the last year and a half. tried to push it too far recently and fryed the motherboard. and its hard to find a good s939 board so i upgraded to the AM2, but after playing with this board, i don't think Ocing is a viable option, cant push this damn thing past 2.5ghz. the system works fine for every day usage, but i want to push it up a bit to 3ghz, i dont see that happening on this board, or with this 4600+ i guess ill be jumping ship to the E6420 next week.