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    What is stable system? Is Prime the best method? - Post your thoughts here

    In my mini-revew of DFI 680i, virtualrain post a question that for many of you is recurring: what is the best method to test system stability?

    All start with my toughts

    Quote Originally Posted by Pedro Rocha View Post
    If you guys insist I can try some quad cores primes, BUT (and that's a big but) I do not understand why some of you guys are so blinded with Prime.

    Is there any real life application / game / benchmark that put some much stress on the components as prime?? I don't think so

    I do overclocking for near a decade and I always follow the 10 - 15% rule for 24/7 use and I never had stability problems.

    For instance if I had a CPU that run most of the benchs (superpi / 3mark, etc) at 4.000Mhz, for daily usage I always run it wih less 10 to 15% of the max OC, more or less 3.500Mhz in this case.

    Please do not flame this, it is just my opinion. I respect others opinions, if you consider a system stable only if passes a 100% stress prime it's ok - use it and stress it..

    The most important thing in OC it is not to have stress (prime or other) but have fun a enjoy your system
    Here is what virtualrain

    Quote Originally Posted by virtualrain View Post
    Not blinded by PRIME, just "grew-up" that way

    It seems overclockers are generally getting more slack with what is considered a good overclock. While you have a good argument, there's also something to be said that if your system can run PRIME stable at stock it should be able to when overclocked as well... otherwise it's not a good overclock. Unfortunately, following such doctrine results in much less attractive thread titles.

    I think if you scale back 10-15% you are probably well within the margin of stability... so why not test? My board boots at 3.8GHz but can't do much without crashing. At 3.6 it's PRIME stable for 8+hrs. That's only backing off about 6%.

    Ultimately though, I respect your opinion as well and each person has to be satisfied with their own overclock. It's just getting harder and harder to compare overclocks now since everyone's standard for what is stable varies.
    He raise a interesting question: what is the best method to compare stability in overclocked systems?

    Some defend Prime and their variants, like Others.

    I dont have a firm opinion, since I have 2 diferent rigs one to bench (play my fav game: 3Dmark2001 ) and other for 24/7 that is almost noiseless and run with a very moderate OC.

    The idea of this thread is to post your toughts about this question.

    Any post related to that discussion will moved to this thread.

    This way we all can contribute to have XS more clean and easy to read, by avoiding this interesting discussion to be spred in many threads.

    Thank you
    Last edited by Pedro Rocha; 06-01-2007 at 02:44 PM.

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