Quote Originally Posted by Ket View Post
SB chips are odd things, you can pump more and more volts thrugh them and not gain any stability. I'd work on getting a slightly lower OC stable, then try simply turning up the multi. Every chip has its limits. Regards temps, simple logic. Go play any game or run any real world app thats considered demanding and I bet your temps will top out around 65c. Prime / IBT / whatever are designed to absolutely ravage the CPU, effectively showing instability that will only occur in situations you aren't ever going to run into.
not to stir up the pot, but i can understand the mentality of wanting to pass an extended torture test. systems that fail due to electrical instability tend to fail during peak bursts of activity, and this is generally the most inconvenient time for the system to fail. this is, for example, when someone in my house is streaming a transcoded video, and while downloading some torrents i start processing RAW photos, which momentarily tangle up my CPU with bursts of thumbnail generation, high memory usage, disk I/O, and JPG rendering. the only way to know that a system has the capacity to power through such peaks is to hit it with a maximum amount of randomized data processing at the maximum expected ambient temperature.

having a high-performance system that can run 24/7 without crashes or necessary reboots for days/weeks/months is a worthwhile pursuit, IMO.