Quote Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue View Post
sorry...i wasn't criticizing you...i was trying to express that i think to many people put to much emphasis on orthos or prime 95 for 8, 10 or 12 hours when in reality 99.9% of us will never run a program that will consume 100% cpu usage on all four cores.

one guy made a good point about doing orthos or prime 95 for "12" hours...he thought he was stable but his game would kick back to the desktop after a short period of time running it...so...there are no guarantees with orthos or prime 95 if you can do that for many hours...his fix for the game dropping back to the desktop was to increase the vcore.

that is why i am not so fixed on doing it for many hours...if i get 30 minutes that is good enough for me.
No worries & I totally get what you are saying as I have had many rigs that run Prime/Orthos then fall over in games or corrupt windows days later but for me personally I run my rig hard 24/7 for pleasure/gaming & I run a small business from home on it so I run every test there is before calling my rig stable.

Anyway forget stability for now what I was getting at earlier was I too can bench DDR1200 just like viper with this board @ 400 x 9 but my point is its slower in PI, Sandra, Everest etc etc than DDR1080 450 x 8 so as good as DDR1200 sounds its a no brainer for me.

I am all up for finding more power/speed from this board just the same as everyone else here but when I see other users struggling to match what they saw here at xtreme & failing blaming there hardware trying to get there rig stable enough to open notepad when the original posters rig was only 14seconds/PI 1M stable in the first place I feel obliged to comment particularly when there is no useable benefit as well.

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My basic point from 4-5 pages ago still stand BIOS 12_b02 is not as stable & doesn't offer any performance gain over official 11 & I ask anyone to chip in with there comments after all thats the whole point of a BETA BIOS (work out issues before release)

CN