When do you consider it stable?

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KoolDrew

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What do you guys run and for how long until you finally consider your overclock stable?
 
synthetic progs are a good start. orthos, prime95, systool, superPi, 3dMark06, etc. If you can run (on dual core), dual Prime95, orthos, and SuperPi @ 32M caculations for around 8 hours, I'd call it good. Then get to the gaming, and have a few good hours on it, and I think most would agree, that will be a decisive factor. If anything can kill a "stable" OC, it'd be some hardcore gaming. If there's a fault, one of those steps will find it.
 
When I can play Oblivion without it crashing every 5 minutes :rolleyes:

Seriously, I was Orthos and Prime95 stable, but I had to drop off about 75MHz before Oblivion would stop crashing, go figure...
 
Orthos and Prime are very lame indicators of stability. Unless you are going to the record, I find they are both useless. They do very little to exercise memory and they only excercise a small part of the CPU instruction set for that matter.

OCCT is much better.

You hit the nail on the head when you pointed out that Orthos says it is stable then the system crashes playing Oblivion. Seriously, if you want stability for Oblviion you should tune to Oblivion, not to some floating point benchmark that calculates pi or prime numbers.
 
It's funny... At 3500mhz, my system will play oblivion for, well start to finish in 1 night (I always got like 80% of the way through it before having to reinstall XP lol) while folding on the other core, and sharing video to another computer on the network. A good 10 hours on end.

F*cking Orthos fails after 5 minutes.

So, Idunno. When I can game for HOURS on end without it crashing.
 
Orthos and Prime are very lame indicators of stability. Unless you are going to the record, I find they are both useless. They do very little to exercise memory and they only excercise a small part of the CPU instruction set for that matter.

OCCT is much better.
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What if both were used in conjunction with one another? Which one would you recommend running first and how long for each of them?
 
I can never be Orthos Stable (maybe 10 or 15s), however, EVERYTHING I do to abuse my PC never fails.

As far as I am concerned, my PC is very stable!
 
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