Quote Originally Posted by Capt Proton View Post
One might think that as it is pretty much the standard in most credible forums. There are also forums where people consider Super Pi as good enough. I, personally, do not possess enough knowledge to state categorically that 8 hours of Prime proves stability. I do consider it to be an acceptable test as I have read so many posts by folks that have a great deal more knowledge than I that say so.
What are your credentials?

I do agree with this. I, personally have had a setup that was 8 hours Prime Stable (note I said Prime stable, which cannot be argued with) yet failed 3D MArk 06. Turned out my memory overclock was too high for 3D applications.

Wow, now this is an emphatic statement. Only people with iron clad reputations and credentials should make statements like this. Please, let us in on your background so that we may judge for ourselves if you are correct, or just have an overinflated opinion of your own self worth.

I can't vouch for intel but i can tell you that with AMD 8 hours is not 24/7 stable............In fact when a cpu is close but not quite 100% stable it fails usually within the 10-12 hour mark.......

Take into consideration also that alot of people during the winter toss open a window.......so summer time would be the real deal on whats 24/7 stable.....ambient changes the game alot.

Also taking into consideration that some locks such as PCI rarely work......which can be noted due to your hard drives performance and noise, my old 36g raptor will tell me right away if PCI locks work......NIC's also are prone to be less stable............

100% stable is sort of a myth however most users here can perform most of they're needs wants at they're 24/7 stable settings without failure.......If in fact you placed the hardware at such settings in a mission critical situation such as a server with high traffic........Failure would be imminent..

Now since i made this claim here's my reputation/credentials.....I've been in the amd camp for quite some time since slot cpu's And I've managed some preety insane stuff, I was waterchiiling back in the duron days.....last year I was beta testing reference mobo's for ati...........

All that said, this is XS and we push things to the limit, most of just need it stable to do what we want it to do, game, bench, crunch etc......and 90% are happy with that........