telos, 4x1gb at 2000 cas8 wont be easy...
i have 4 sticks here so let me give it a try

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2. suggestions for cooling the nb
use the waterblock
works great for me

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3. what criteria is there for claiming that a system is stable, how many times should a stress program be run, if it passes once is that enough, because i can get memtest+2.01 to run all 8 tests once but on the second pass it fails, the same goes for super pi
i always used test 5 which worked great for me. sometimes other tests error out first, but test5 is reliable and fast, so id recommend that one.

but memtest is really only a chipet/mem thing, and more mem than chipset even. so to make sure the board is really stable run some 3d like the crysis benchmark, that really stresses all the hardware a lot.