Best STABLE OC on new retail 45nm CPUs?

[Leeghoofd]

I really think temps are an issue but surely CPU voltage will degrade their performance more rapidly then their 65nm counterparts.... and really I don't see the point in running Prime for 12 hours as I have done this before and a game rebooted the pc in a matter of minutes while prime didn't show any errors... I really do some benches, play some games verify my temps regurarly and then when I'm not on the pc it folds on the cores available... if it survives all that then i call it stable ...

Prime and co is good to have an ida but you still can encounter instability with several apps...

[brenanh]

I really think temps are an issue but surely CPU voltage will degrade their performance more rapidly then their 65nm counterparts.... and really I don't see the point in running Prime for 12 hours as I have done this before and a game rebooted the pc in a matter of minutes while prime didn't show any errors... I really do some benches, play some games verify my temps regurarly and then when I'm not on the pc it folds on the cores available... if it survives all that then i call it stable ...

Prime and co is good to have an ida but you still can encounter instability with several apps...

True, Prime is not the be all and end all of stability testing... But it's still a good test. I run games on it all day anyway, so I'd notice any instability there.

Sure, 45nm chips are more sensitive to voltage than 65nm, hence 1.45v max safe voltage instead of 1.55v. I can't see 1.45v degrading it much, given that 1.55v doesn't seem to have significantly degraded 65nm's.

Still don't think temps are as much of an issue as people are making out. They hardly change at all when overclocking, so it's not like the CPU is getting a massive increase in thermal load. Oh noes my poor IFX-14 with 3x 120mm fans can't keep the CPU <68 deg. stock, underclock it quick!