Quote Originally Posted by AliG View Post
just a word of advice, don't bother running prime for more than half an hour. I say this because all prime does is torture the cpu, how many times a day do you think you'll be literally torturing your cpu with average load? Priming too long will infact cause some unnecessary damage to the cpu, unless you have some killer cooling, but I wouldn't trust a TRUE for that.

I would use OCCT and if it passes more than ten minutes, you're set (people have found that OCCT will cause errors in just a few minutes while it takes prime95 hours to do so). Just a word of advice, since I was totally into prime95 stability testing myself and now my cpu doesn't oc as well.

anyways, good luck, you seem to have a fairly good chip, I would consider investing in watercooling if you want to get the full potential out of it
Thanks for the advice. I'm just trying to get the setup stable, and prime seems to be the best tool for the job so far. OCCT PT's linpak test doesn't seem to get results as quickly and prime has a pretty wide range of possible tests. So far I'm considering my CPU stable if it passes:

1. one hour of prime small FFTs (in place)
2. one hour of prime large FFTs with 1600mb allocated
3. one hour of prime small FFTs with 1600mb allocated

I'm not the kind of person that runs prime 24/7 and isn't content until it runs for a week without an error. I'm just trying to find a completely stable OC for this cpu that I just bought.

I'm planning to re-install the WC system when the new board arrives on Tuesday. I didn't install it initially because the GTZ that I have didn't include mounting hardware for AM2. I'm going to stick a Fuzion V1 that I picked up from another forum member on it along with the D5/DetroitAC top and TFC360 that I've already got.

--Matt