Quote Originally Posted by AriciU View Post
Who cares about Orthos stable really? It's not like you get this CPU's to "play" Orthos or think about "hmm... i'm bored... let's start up some Orthos" anyway. Your CPU will never get stressed in real life like it does with Orthos so no point in going for lower clocks just to get it "orthos stable".
Unstable in Orthos, or Prime etc, means the system is generating errors. You may not see them in everyday use of the system. Not until it's too late anyway. As the errors build on your hard drive, the crashes and BSODs will start and grow more frequent, until you have to reload. If you are lucky, you don't lose anything when it crashes.
As I said, your system is either stable, or it's not.