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?
Enough for me.
I think that's a pretty good overclock , i dont know how well are clocking those 9650 but i will keep those settings if my vcore <1,5 and my temps are <70 under load. maybe i'll finish the test with some x264 encoding... something quick like an anime chapter.
doing now a 10 loop of crysis cpu bench at 9X475 if it doesnt crash, i'll do a loop of 3dmark06, wprime, 4XsuperPi, encode a bleach chapter with megui and realanime6, and some pcmark05. that will be my " 24/7 low stability test "