Quote Originally Posted by FlanK3r View Post
I dont much beleive PRIME from two experience.
1) with i7-2600K, PRIME 1h stable without error. But after I was in idle and got sometimes BSOD
2) FX-8150 time, I tried PRIME and got error after few seconds, wtf? Good board (C5F), good cooling (allinone liquid), awesome PSU (gold 1200W AX1200 Corsair) for it.
Flanker, did you consider maybe that your FX8150 just wasnt stable at stock ?
Cause i know mine wasnt, at first when i had build this FX8320 it WAS NOT stable ta stock, as it turned out after a while, mainboard and its bios was to blame.It is stable now.
As for the idle not stable, i've encountered it also, on different setups, it has mostly to do with quick change of voltage and power states, its also mainly bios problem from what i gather...
Theres also 3) for you, it allows you to brag about higher clocks :-) .Stilt`s way of testing is certainly interesting, it is however complicated to a degree.Im probably gonna do a split testing now, run x264 at 2 modules and 2 with prime, then change the modules, it should still lower power consumption and heat somewhat but maybe i dont have to do the fan speed adjustments which just doesnt work on my board with 2 fan setup on radiator.

EDIT

Hey, STILT, is there a way of enforcing 9590 power consumption (220W)ceiling for a 120W cpu ?