Quote Originally Posted by emertX View Post
Linx won't stress Sandies hard enough!
Try Prime 26.4 and customize the run to 960K!
You will see it is much harder to get it to 5Ghz with your voltage!
Agreed!!!

My new 2500k at 4.9 ghz is linx stable (20 runs, all memory used) and OCCT stable (4 hr run) on a vcore of 1.385. I haven't tried downloading SP1 yet.

However, I'm still not prime95 v26.4 stable yet with a vcore of 1.410.

Has anyone tried some real world apps like handbrake or some cpu intensive games on their linx stable (but not prime95 stable) voltages? I'm wondering if I need to keep increasing vcore to achieve prime stability in order to prevent errors in real applications (especially handbrake encoding).

Also, has anyone compared their prime95 v26.4 stable vcore to their linx stable vcore using SP1, AVX 4, and the new linpack modules? If so, could you post your values? I'm curious which needs more juice (and how much more) for stability.

I'll try handbrake tonight on my linx stable but not prime95 stable vcore and see what happens.