Is Super PI 8M and OCCT stable enough?

[jjeffreys]

I can run Super Pi and OCCT with no problems but when I run Prime I error out. Do you guys think that for gaming my system will be fine. I can prime no problem at 260x10 1.5v and 2.66 @ 1.55 but if I go 2.7 @ 1.6 I can't prime. I can even pass Super Pi and OCCT @ 2.7 @ 1.55. I don't want to go above 1.6v because my temps go to 51 under load and I have set my personal limit at 50. My 3.3 rail sits at 3.26 but my 5 and 12 volt never go below their respective numbers. I am on the 166 divider for my ram at 2.5-3-3-6 1T. Any suggestions. Thanks.

[toreide]

I would say occt + 32M brings you closer to a stable system.

[angra]

I can run Super Pi and OCCT with no problems but when I run Prime I error out. Do you guys think that for gaming my system will be fine. I can prime no problem at 260x10 1.5v and 2.66 @ 1.55 but if I go 2.7 @ 1.6 I can't prime. I can even pass Super Pi and OCCT @ 2.7 @ 1.55. I don't want to go above 1.6v because my temps go to 51 under load and I have set my personal limit at 50. My 3.3 rail sits at 3.26 but my 5 and 12 volt never go below their respective numbers. I am on the 166 divider for my ram at 2.5-3-3-6 1T. Any suggestions. Thanks.

well in my book if it fails any test, it is not _stable_.

however, if it runs the app you want it to run for as long as you want, then it is "stable enough"! :)

how does your game run? Does it have a stress-test/benchmark/demo mode?

[Dave_Sz]

I can run my system up to 2846mhz occt and 32m stable but can only get it stressprime stable at 2700mhz. I played farcry for 7 hours with the 2850mhz and not one problem. Currently however I run it at 2700 24/7 cause it's not that mcuh of a perfomance difference and I can run it at only 1.4v.

[Absolute_0]

8M isn't close to stable. Even 32M doesn't mean it's very stable. OCCT is probably game stable but not 24/7 stable. I still notice games crashing even if i'm 10-20 Mhz beyond my prime range. Stick to prime95 stable, 50 extra Mhz isn't worth an unstable system.

[Korpse]

We cant tell you, Stable is what you believe stable to be.

(saying that, I see "stable" Super Pi 32m stable. But myself I use games, D2OL and Windows aswell as 32m to tell me if my stuff is stable.)

[jjeffreys]

Ok great thanks guys I will probably just go ahead and leave it at the 2600 since my temps stay in low 40's and then when I get the itch to tweak I will still know that I have some overhead to play with. :) As far as the game it is FS2004 and yes it ran good for about an hour, that was all I was able to test it for last night. Thanks alot guys.

[K.I.T.T.]

Prime :fact:

[Fresh Daemon]

Prime for 24 hours. That's stable to me.

[Zeus]

We all have our own standards for stability.
Personally i think if it passes OCCT "test" and SuperPi 32M it won't crash easily.

I have to say i'm not a ga(y)mer. :D

[toreide]

As long as it doesn't crash I guess it's ok :)

[Nettwerk]

I find that steam games will error with that "memory error xxxxx at xxxx" msg when my o/c sucks.

[dogsx2]

If it will pass 32m, OCCT and play games= it's pretty stable. If I thought it had to be prime stable, 72hrs and nothing less. 24hrs is nothing, could fail at 24 1/2 hrs.

[RPGWiZaRD]

for me stability is when all games & programs I use never crash... I started to hate prime quite fast as it always failed in a few mins and then all games and appz never crashes. And since I got this bad clocking sandy 3700+ I really dun feel like going back to 2.5GHz just to get it prime stable when 2.7GHz works fine for all games + appz I use.

btw weird temps u got there imo, my SD 3700+ @ 2.7GHz 1.65V idles at 29 - 32C depending on room temp and 42 - 44C load with a TT Big Typhoon tho. Most I've tried is 1.7V and then load temp still never got higher than about 46C. I think I'd need like 1.78 - 1.8V to reach load temps of 50C. But since I couldn't even run 2.75GHz with 1.7V I stopped at 2.7GHz :)

[IvanAndreevich]

I'd stick with 2.66 GHz 1.55V with complete stability. 40 MHz is a laughable percentage of the CPU clock which is absolutely unnoticeable.

[dnottis]

Prime for 24 hours. That's stable to me.


Same here... 24 hr prime 95.