Quote Originally Posted by arfett View Post
Every computer I've ever built I have overclocked. Every single computer would blue screen me randomly or when running certain programs if I was not at least 8 hours prime stable. It might be weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, but it would happen. I always do a minimum of 8 hours prime 95 on small fft and blend and nowdays I go for 12 hours before I call it quits or else I know at some point I'll get a blue screen or random program crash.


Can't tell you how many times a 5 hour prime stable computer has crashed on me while playing UT2004 that was 32M Pi "stable". Even for general use you must prime or do some sort of stress testing if you want to be assured no errors/crashing. If it works for you then that's cool, but if you're overclocking and you didn't stress it then you're not stable in my opinion and at some point I'd imagine it will get you.
Sorry to hear your bad luck with building computers.