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Best Benchmark Program for New Rigs and Newegg Rebates?
I figured I'd ask two questions in one thread.
First, I've heard using Prime 95 for 12 or 24 hours after all your drivers and stuff are updated was good for making sure all the parts were good to go. I wanted to get some people's opinion on what to use/do.
The Second question is do rebates from newegg show up after my order gets here? I got all my stuff but I don't see anything that looks like a rebat yet. I've never ordered anything with a rebate before, so I'm sure if thats how they work in general or if thats how it works with newegg. My google-fu couldn't find the answer.
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For all my Newegg rebates there was a PDF link right on the item description page. Would say something like $149.99 after rebate for example. Clicking on that brought up the link to download the pdf of the rebate.
Hope that helps.
Thanks. these rebates suck ass. American Express gift cards that can't be used at ATMs. geez. I guess I'll count it as a life lesson
A program called LinX is actually even more intense for testing for stability. If something survives an hour or so of that on max - its stable. I used that for the CPU/RAM, and I use Furmark for the video card.
If I got the time I use to run Memtest 86 and let it run for a few hours, issues that you don't detect right away is almost always memory problem, usually on the ram, sometimes on the GFX card and in the worst case I seen on the cash on a old P4 processor (that one was hard to figure out since it only happened every 5 hours or so).
After that I run heaven benchmark to check the graphics and get the computer heated up. If it performs well there as well it is ready to go.
Rebates are usually on the site with the item - either a PDF to mail off, or a web site to go enter data into or something. They almost never come with the equipment itself.
Benchmarking I don't do much of, that's testing to see how fast your computer is.
Burn-in and stress testing, I usually use Prime95 for the CPU/Mem and Furmark for the video. I've not got around to getting Heaven yet. If I have problems, I use Memtest86 for troubleshooting. I'll have to check out LinX.
Unigine Heaven isn't a stress test. As benchmarks go, it's about as close to a synthetic tessellation benchmark (which would tell you nothing about gaming performance) as it is to being representative of real games.