i5-2500K/2600K batch number and o/c results

[OC Nub]

Falkentyne - nice find there

Demo and Nub - each to his own BUT if you use your cpu for gaming as well then its nice to have a 24/7 clock where its nicely overclocked but not at high voltage, so personally I will prime a lower voltage clock but also test in game, as demo said often a pc will crash in gaming use where it wont in stress testing, but I still stress test first. I think linX is more stressful than prime though right?

and testing 24/7 clock doesnt usually prove any e-peen points

Im really not sure which program is best for testing SB. I have spent very little time stress testing this platform. I would always do long blend runs in the past and if it didnt pass, even if it failed at 12-14hrs I wouldnt call it stable and would retest. I ran LinX mainly to see how many chips I could get in the 4.5GHZ LinX thread, but other than that I didnt really care if it passed or not.

This is the first time (with SB) everyone has had the chance to taste 5ghz+ without any type of extreme cooling, including myself. Im just enjoying it while it lasts because it wont be forever. I would hate to not play at say 5.6ghz because a program says Im not stable. I just like seeing the high scores at the end of the test. I use this rig for fun so it doesnt have to be 100% stable.

Some cant afford to not be stable and I understand needing an oc that you dont have to worry about crashing or corrupting data. But for the rest of us who dont really care, this is a lot of fun.