Quote Originally Posted by Chicken Patty View Post
Thank you. I'd thought no one will ever agree with me. Why put it through the stress of 10 hours or 12 of prime. Just enjoy it and use it. If it crashes tweak it just as you would if prime fails. I've been running my 4ghz daily setup for 3 months now ever since I went core i7 and it has not crashes once. I have never ran prime on this setting. If it crashes a month from now, i'll simply tweak it, thats it. Same with prime, you run it for 12 hours and it didn't crash. What if it would have crashed after 14 hours? You never really know if your rig is stable, enjoy the damn thing and stop wasting hours just stress testing it!
I agree as well. My Q9450 (at 3.8Ghz and 1900fsb) I only ran P95 for 1 hour to test stability! Then I played games, downloaded, surfed, all the regular stuff I normally do, and did increase Vcore initially a never a crash or bsod since (almost 1 year now no crashes, and never a stress test more than 1 hour long). If it's not stable, it doesn't bother me (as using computer as I normally do is stable).

My buddy thought I was crazy, and says I should run P95 for at least 24 hours. I said ok, hows about my car? it runs, it gets me to and from work trouble free. But I don't know if I could run it full speed for 24 hours straight, and don't care, thats not how I normally drive it.

btw
my i7 920 is also 1 hour P95 stable at 4.2Ghz, same deal, now just playing games and surfing the web, burning disks, and all the stuff I normally do to test if I am stable. 1 month no crashes at all (only had the i7 a little over 1 month)