Core i7/X58 Overclocking Thread

[ReverendMaynard]

I for one am pretty sick of this Prime95 holy grail .. OK so I cannot get more than a couple of hours @ 4Ghz of Prime to save my life with reasonable voltage ..

So what ???

I have my 'game stable' setup which involves the following:

- At least 5 mins of OCCT
- At least 5 mins of Arena
- At least 5 loops of Cinebench
- At least 5 loops of wPrime
- At least 5 mins of Everest Stability
- At least 5 loops of SuperPI

- At least 2 hours of Crysis/Assassins/Far Cry 2/POP etc ...

This may sound pretty lame for an OC test .. but I have pretty much proven if it passes these tests.. it will play games for hours .. and encode DVD's etc. . and thats the main reason I bought the machine ..

Besides I've also heard enough stories of machines that are prime stable for 15 hours then fall over idling or playing simple games ..

I know which machine I'd rather have .. game stable not prime stable

That doesn't sound lame at all. I've always, going back 10 years of ocing, have been a firm believer and advocate of real world stability. Running prime for 12 - 24 hours is just shaving off the top end of your systems lifespan all for the sake of proving something that you shouldn't have to. I've found, especially here, that some dudes get seriously bent out of shape when people refuse to meet their stability standards, but I say eff them. I resell my stuff to people who trust me, and they should get components that aren't abused. It keeps me in the upgrade game, so I don't where I eat

[Splave]

That doesn't sound lame at all. I've always, going back 10 years of ocing, have been a firm believer and advocate of real world stability. Running prime for 12 - 24 hours is just shaving off the top end of your systems lifespan all for the sake of proving something that you shouldn't have to. I've found, especially here, that some dudes get seriously bent out of shape when people refuse to meet their stability standards, but I say eff them. I resell my stuff to people who trust me, and they should get components that aren't abused. It keeps me in the upgrade game, so I don't where I eat

^this

[speckled10]

That doesn't sound lame at all. I've always, going back 10 years of ocing, have been a firm believer and advocate of real world stability. Running prime for 12 - 24 hours is just shaving off the top end of your systems lifespan all for the sake of proving something that you shouldn't have to. I've found, especially here, that some dudes get seriously bent out of shape when people refuse to meet their stability standards, but I say eff them. I resell my stuff to people who trust me, and they should get components that aren't abused. It keeps me in the upgrade game, so I don't where I eat

Amen to that Reverend !!