[geeks] "Stress test" for Vista system - suggestions sought...

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Sat Sep 8 19:06:11 CDT 2007


On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 06:31:17PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> OK, OK, keep your smart-aleck remarks to yourself, but I've just put
> together a system,a nd I am concerned about its "health" - I want to
> "burn it in" for a while (overnight should do it), and the machine
> currently has Vista installed - anyone have some ideas?

Sadly, HONESTLY, just doing stuff in the GUI should be plenty of a 
stress test.  

Interacting with the main system user interface should NOT require a video
card with more processing power and RAM than the systems I first ran XP on,
six years ago!

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas



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