So after managing to sort out my overclock problems in another thread, I have my system running at what I thought was stable settings. 12 hours of memtest gave no errors, so I left prime95 running a large FFT stress test overnight. After 10 hours 2 of the cores got an error and stopped. My question is, how important is it to have an overclock that lasts 12/24/whatever hours in prime95? When will my computer ever be working that hard for 12 straight hours? Or am I looking at this wrong?
Its up to you really depends what your going to be using your rig for. If you dont plan on stressing your machine to that extent then you may never see any issues in real world usage. You do however run the risk that the issue could under certain unknown circumstances manifest unexpectedly depending on how the applications you use tap the system resources. For me stability is defined by f@h as I run two machines 24/7. I recently had to drop an OC that wasn't even apparent running f@h for months until Stanford updated the software stressing my system over the edge.
I don't run any programs such as folding@home. Really I use it for gaming, and that's just 3/4 hours a day and even that doesn't utilize 100% of the cores. So would it be fine to leave the voltages as they are, because I really don't want to keep raising them
I didn't assume you do, just using my own experience to help provide an answer to your question. As I said previously it's completely up to you, I'd suggest just leaving things as they are & if you don't get any problems, happy days. You can always reduce the clock speed instead of increasing voltages.
Ah ok, nah I was just stating it's primary function. I might as well stock with the current voltage until I get any crashes. Thanks for your help
@moussekateer: I had a similar problem a while ago. I'd put my CPU to 4.2GHz and found it could survive the typical tests for stability but when using a specific piece of software, the settings weren't stable enough, even when pumping more voltage through everything. In the end I settled for just over 4GHz. Keep using your settings if it's only for gaming but if you experience quite a few unexpected crashes then back off the overclock.
No crashes so far, but im planning on reinstalling windows 7 as I'm currently running the 32bit version and want to install the 64 bit version. I wonder if that will make a difference to my overclock...
Same except not furmark because I find it just murders my processor and graphics card no matter what setting they're on. I have no idea what it does but I've never seen my graphics card get ANYWHERE near those temps while playing games that stress it!
