Home | Forums | Article Search | Subscribe & Shop | Contact Us | Log Out Ultra-X R.S.T. Pro3 & QuickTech Pro Email This Print This View My Personal Library Heavy Gear July 2009 • Vol.9 Issue 7 Page(s) 28 in print issue Add To My Personal Library Ultra-X R.S.T. Pro3 & QuickTech Pro R.S.T. Pro3 $859 QuickTech Pro $429 Ultra-X www.uxd.com CPU Rating: 4 PC enthusiasts love benchmarks. In providing hard numbers, benchmarks allow us irrefutable bragging rights about how well our builds perform. Ultra-X’s testing kits go way beyond simple benchmarks: These are serious tools that help professionals test and troubleshoot hardware issues to a level of minutiae most of us have probably never encountered. Though Ultra-X’s catalog of testing tools is extensive, we tried out two of its kits, the R.S.T. Pro3 and the Quick-Tech Pro. The devices will give you all the information, but it’s up to the user to make some kind of sense of it. R.S.T. Pro3 The R.S.T. Pro3 comes in a PCI-E card form factor and is designed to test memory for servers and workstations, though you can use it for testing any system, really. (Note that the R.S.T. Pro2 is ideal for desktop system memory.) To use it, just plop the card into an available PCI-E slot, restart the system, and configure the card as the first boot priority in the BIOS. The system will boot from the card and present you with options for testing. The level of detail to which you can drill down to test and evaluate is staggering. If there’s any information you care to know about your system’s memory, the R.S.T. Pro3 will find it for you. QuickTech Pro The QuickTech Pro device we tested is in a USB form factor, and like the R.S.T. Pro3, you can boot directly to the USB dongle after configuring the boot order in the BIOS. Unlike the R.S.T. Pro3, which is designed specifically to test memory, the QuickTech Pro tests virtually everything—memory (though not in as much detail as the R.S.T. Pro3), CPU, hard drives, optical drives, graphics, and more. Included in the testing kit is a variety of devices you can plug into the machine for loopback tests, including ones for a 9-pin serial port, 25-pin serial/parallel port, network connection, and audio jack. It also includes a CD-ROM and DVD-ROM equipped with media for running optical drive tests. by Seth Colaner  User Reviews Be the first to write a review of this product Want more information about a topic you found of interest while reading this article? Type a word or phrase that identifies the topic and click "Search" to find relevant articles from within our editorial database. Enter A Subject (key words or a phrase): ALL Words (‘digital’ AND ‘photography’) ANY Words (‘digital’ OR ‘photography’) Exact Match ('digital photography'- all words MUST appear together) Home      Copyright & Legal Information      Privacy Policy      Site Map      Contact Us Copyright © 2010 Sandhills Publishing Company U.S.A. All rights reserved.