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Friend of mine helped me to overclock it. :D

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I ran prime 95 for few hours, it never exceeded past 74 degrees.
 
GJohn said:
We tried 4.0 and system locked up as soon as prime 95 started lol
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I can run mine at 4.0ghz on the stock Intel cooler at 1.475 vcore. It gets really really hot and reboots after 2 minutes but I think if I had a better heatsink it would not be a problem. So you might consider increasing the vcore, maybe not. :)
 
old skool said:
I can run mine at 4.0ghz on the stock Intel cooler at 1.475 vcore. It gets really really hot and reboots after 2 minutes but I think if I had a better heatsink it would not be a problem. So you might consider increasing the vcore, maybe not. :)
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I hope your kidding....

I dont understand this facination with finding the most stressful CPU tester AKA intel burn test, prime 95, core damage etc. Reguardless of which one you use it will take your CPU to temperature and stress levels, you would never experience in day to day computing activities.
 
When your saying that Xenozx, your basically saying why even stress test? Run the chip on what ever voltage you want and as long as it boots its stable!

Most people including myself like doing ibt, Why? Its faster, It stresses more, and it just gives us more of a stable mindset. In the meaning, if its ibt stable, its stable. Yes prime95 might be enough since you probably will not have the chip that high of usage most of the time. Then why overclock? Since your not even using the chips max clock potential?

Its faster, more stressful, and it gives you the feeling that its 100% stable, what more can you want?

Even more when a chip can be 25 hour prime95 stable and yet it does not pass 10 half stressed ibt passes.
 
Xenozx said:
I hope your kidding....

I dont understand this facination with finding the most stressful CPU tester AKA intel burn test, prime 95, core damage etc. Reguardless of which one you use it will take your CPU to temperature and stress levels, you would never experience in day to day computing activities.
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Well I think most people here already know you only need a stress tester if you want a stable computer. If you don't care about random reboots or just browsing the web at 4ghz then I don't see the point, either.
 
uhm, even IBT/linx won't insure stability. I've seen reports from people who had looped linx 20 times without a hitch only to have the same system fail 15 min into prime, so make your own conclusions.
 
im saying, using any stress tester should be fine, to put a stress on your PC.

Even prime is going above and beyond what any task you would do normally. I dont know of any computing task a person would do that would get near the stress levels of 8 thread prime.

Im not saything they dont exist, but can you name one that you do that puts a stress on your PC like Prime does?

I overclock, because that 4.0ghz is more beneficial on the main core, then 8 cores. It also gets my FSB up, and helps it run 1:1 with my ram, to make my whole computing experience faster.

I am Prime stable. I am not Intel Burn Test stable. Temps get too high. but again, I have been gaming, and torrenting, and encoding video, streaming, and doing all the normal stuff I use my PC for and I have never seen my temps go over 60c. Prime hits 80c, Intel Burn test goes over 90c.

I have never had a BSOD, or a reboot. I am stable, however, not at those super high temps that IBT does :(
 
Xenozx has a point but people are stresstesting, because they want to see the worst case scenario. When you spend about $300 on cpu and another $300 you want to make sure you are not going to burn it.

I used my Q6600 @3.75Ghz when i stress test, it was going 77-78C. but i never hit those temp when i was gaming. i hit to 68C after a couple hours crysis-UT-cs 1.6 gaming combination. Now i am sold my cpu to a friend he is running @3.4 at most 50-55C . i ordere I7 it should be here soon. I dont know what i can get with it but like everybody else, i am gonna try to get as much as i can.
 
I to don't put any stock in "stress test" apps. My Q6600 has never (since I built it) crashed on me. It was put together almost a year ago. Yet if I run Prime95 or that Intel utility it BSOD's in 10 minutes. That being said, why should I care? It has never crashed doing what it does all day (x264 encoding).
 
criccio said:
I to don't put any stock in "stress test" apps. My Q6600 has never (since I built it) crashed on me. It was put together almost a year ago. Yet if I run Prime95 or that Intel utility it BSOD's in 10 minutes. That being said, why should I care? It has never crashed doing what it does all day (x264 encoding).
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That's insane. Your corrupted backups are waiting for you. Just because a bit flips occasionally doesn't mean it will crash ... so that's where those online videos come from with corrupted compression blocks ...
 
xorbe said:
:eek::eek::eek:

That's insane. Your corrupted backups are waiting for you. Just because a bit flips occasionally doesn't mean it will crash ... so that's where those online videos come from with corrupted compression blocks ...
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Then you would think it would have happened already.... Been perfectly fine since it was built almost a year ago.
 
old skool said:
I can run mine at 4.0ghz on the stock Intel cooler at 1.475 vcore. It gets really really hot and reboots after 2 minutes but I think if I had a better heatsink it would not be a problem. So you might consider increasing the vcore, maybe not. :)
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Yah 4.0 requires a lot of juice, almost 2 volts more in my case from 3.8, which for 200mhz is not worth the extra heat. Although I am air cooling.
 
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