with these settings I can:

A. Run wPrime 1024 stability test as many times as I want (just went through 10 runs)
B. Run Super PI 32m test as many times as I want (just completed 5 runs)
C. Run 3DM06 CPU tests 1&2 looped forever and ever amen (15 runs before I quit)
D. Run Super PI 32M & wPrime 1024 test at same time
E. Run Crysis benchmark (looped 3 runs)
F. Play Crysis for 30 minutes
G. Type this message on Xtreme Systems Forums (for fun )

with these settings I cannot:

A. run Prime 95 for more than 5 seconds without one core failing


So my question is this:

Is "stable is as stable does"?
If I can do everything I want to do without issue, should I be happy with a rediculous overclock at decent vcore, or should I bang my head against the wall dropping OC and raising vcore until I find a setting within reason that will pass 8 hours of prime?

what do you guys think?