If you cannot measure a 'crash rate' you're doing something wrong. Because if nothing else, there is a low but present base rate of crashes caused by overclock

If you cannot measure a 'crash rate' you're doing something wrong. Because if nothing else, there is a low but present base rate of crashes caused by overclocked CPUs, bad memory, and flaky motherboards. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/04/12/407562.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/04/12/40756... I worked on software for a hardware system sold by my company. We were able to detect when a supplier changed memory suppliers because of the increased number of 'impossible' crashes.