![]() ![]() Operating System - Windows XP Professional x32 RAM - 4GB (became 2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400 (4x 1GB) Dual-ChannelĬooling- (Air) ULTRA ChillTec Overclocking Cooler I brought it over, we plugged it in, he turned it on and did nothing basically but press the power button and it booted into Windows XP. Last attempt: take it to a fellow techie friend's house. Nothing and after 2 days of troubleshooting, resetting the CMOS, and even installing a floppy drive to reflash the BIOS I was about to give up. ![]() I tested EVERYTHING, every port, every drive, even new drives. Then the next problem, no SATA drives detected. I went from 4GB of ram to 2GB but got it to post. First power on, BIOS beep codes, figured out it was bad RAM, removed 1 by one until it booted. My quest to bring it back from the dead is why I decided to name it Z0MB1E. I could also see why it had sat so long when I plugged it in and it was dead. When dad first had it, it had an 8800GTX in it, which wasn't what was in it when I found it. I decided then to turn it into a gaming rig because my desktop had died years before and my gaming laptop had aged horribly though the years. Her son used it a very short time I believe but then it just sat for years and years from probably 2010 to when I found it in the summer of 2015. Dad now has an i7 Ivy Bridge System that he had a custom builder online build for him, it has 32GB ram and thats about all I can tell you about it because I really don't know the specs past that.Īnyway he put this system together for his then girlfriend to use, which she never did. Dad bought an Ultra Aluminus full tower case and a cheap off brand crap 600W PSU and he put these internals into the case, where they have been since. The insides of this system were returned with the new build. In 2009, my dad had our friend gut the case and put a 790i Ultra board in it (which is now the PC my mom uses, my dad gave it to me and I gave it to her). He had our OEM builder friend build the system. This PC started out as his 1st in early 2007. He has had 3 essentially gaming PCs to edit photos and video since that time. My dad has been a professional photographer since 2006. However, most poorly engineered products fail within the first couple of hours, or even minutes, allowing us to make a conscious decision on whether a motherboard (or platform) is worth your money, regardless of how well it performs in our benchmarks.So I would like to go into the background of my Z0MB1E build. We believe that the consumer is never likely to subject their platform to this level of stress and we are not expecting every product to complete an entire extended stress test. This is to ensure that all parts of the system are stressed simultaneously over a period of time. ![]() That involves a gradually increasing amount of stress starting with Prime95 and expanding to IOMeter and an endless loop of Far Cry loop if all is well. We are also focusing a lot more of our time on evaluating the stability of the motherboards (and platforms) using a stress test designed to highlight any of the potential weaknesses that the product may have. Testing Methods:With the exception of SiSoft Sandra, all of our benchmarks have been engineered to give you numbers that you are likely to find useful when actually using the products we have evaluated in the real world. ![]()
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