How much do you care about prime (or other) stability?

[sirheck]

I always figured the F@H SMP client was a good test.
Mine ran for about 3 months continously.

Then i stopped folding

[Movieman]

I always figured the F@H SMP client was a good test.
Mine ran for about 3 months continously.

Then i stopped folding

It is, I just ran 2 of them on a "new" machine.
Now is a good time to get back into it, they have a little "push" going and can use all the help they can get.

[MikeB12]

For long term oc's, I usually tune an oc until it can pass about 30 minutes occt without fail or bsod, then stick it on a couple crunching clients like smp folding and gpu folding... normally it's not stable long term at this point, but real close.. if it bsod's while crunching at 100% on the cpu and gpu; and while doing my normal daily user stuff within the next few days, then make fine adjustments and that usually cures it... but this method is for my 24/7 oc's, and I tend to like them at a fairly low vcore, the point right below where the oc/vcore balance starts getting skewed... right now on my Q6600 g0's that seems to be about the 3.4ghz range. anything higher than that seems to start getting vcroe hungry, and I'd rather not have the cpu sucking power out of the wall like a vaccum cleaner.

for benching it's a different story. max it out on cpu, ram, and video... so that it can pass benches and do whatever tasks are involved in getting that process completed, screenshots, posting, registering a score, blah, blah, blah.. then back to my daily settings. so I've never actually left a max oc on long term... the powerbil is a concern when running multiple quads with higher end video cards at 100% crunching 24/7...

[Zeus]

Since i'm using one system for benching-surfing-mail-etc it has got to be stable.

If it passes 2-3 hours Prime, OCCT, 3d mark 01 and 06 and SuperPi 32M it's good enough for me.

No need for endless periods of Prime but some stablity as i don't want freezes or BSOD's when the missus is behind the keyboard.

[BenchZowner]

i don't want freezes or BSOD's when the missus is behind the keyboard.

Are you sure about that ?
I mean... think again...

It's late at night, you're in the bedroom waiting for her, and she's using the computer and saying "Give me some more minutes honey, I really need to figure how to order this dress from Versace's online shop"...

A freezing & BSODing PC could save your *ss in that kind of situations easily

[Solarfall]

System is too stable/not pushed enough if it can do more then the bench you are trying to complete

hahaha i agreed 100%

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Lol BenzOwner, that's a good one..

I voted, stability itself is sometimes worthless. Why? Because the option above it was aimed only at benching, and I found this a more philosophicaly true statement. Stability isn't a fixed level anyway, if fluctuates with what you're doing, how you're doing it, and your surroundings ( ambients ).

[davidk21770]

If it's not stable for long term in a suite of tests, it's not a true OC. It's just a manipulated benchmark -- since it only passes selected tests.

[DMF]

> Just needs to be stable for the task at hand, whatever that may be

My "task at hand" is staying up 24/7 for p2p and crunching. While I don't run prime for 10 hrs to qualify an OC, any crash is unacceptable.