2655Mhz (4183+)... My OC

[McArra]

This is my core: CBBHD 0450 VPFW 1167479L40285

I'm doing 9x295Mhz@1,57V. My corsair TCCD RAM is coming next week to run 1:1 now I'm running the 133Mhz divisor.

The cuestion I have for you is: the comp is stable in everything I do, gaming, 3dMark03/05, SuperPI.... But prime fails in 7 minutes. Is really important to be prime stable? I have never had a blue screen or restart everything works right. Should I be worried about prime knowing that SuperPi runs great and I have had zero problems?

Thanks guys

 

[blacktankofhopelessness]

I know I would be worried if Prime failed after just 7 minutes! That's indicating you're pushing your CPU quite far. I backed down from 2550Mhz to 2400 (see my sig) because I encountered my first errors in Prime95 at that speed.

My advice would be to back down 5%, which would put you at around 2500Mhz. That's not too shabby an overclock anyway is it? Why risk your CPU for 150 more Mhz???

Oh, and you should change your sig since you're not stable at that overclock...

 

[Promethply]

As long as you're not running mission critical applications, it should be OK

Congratulations :beer:

 

[AnandThenMan]

From my experience, if you are not prime stable, then at some point you WILL get a blue screen or worse. It may take awhile, weeks or even months, but eventually it will happen. How often depends on many factors. If you can live with that, no worries. But personally I don't accept any instability.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Youll be fine. If all your other programs are running fine (especially SuperPi) then you should be fine. Remember Prime isn't the deciding factor for everything (people fail prime without OCing).

-Kevin

 

[Shimmishim]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
Youll be fine. If all your other programs are running fine (especially SuperPi) then you should be fine. Remember Prime isn't the deciding factor for everything (people fail prime without OCing).

-Kevin

that was when the winchester was first released.

so far there haven't been any rumors of prime failing at stock settings.

i think that if your computer can't run prime then it's still considered unstable.

you're only giving yourself a false sense of security by saying everything else can run except prime

 

[McArra]

Everything else is running fine, no problems still, that's what I was saying.

 

[govtcheez75]

I just got new memory recently (Mushkin TCCD), and my computer running at 2500mhz fails prime after 12.5 hours. I am worried that my computer is not stable. So I would DEFINITELY be worried if it failed after 7 minutes.

I can run it at 2650 and everything will seem fine. The only way that I know it's not stable is that it won't pass prime for more than a few minutes. I'm pretty sure that anyone with a Winchester CAN run windows just fine at or above 2.6ghz.

 

[McArra]

Originally posted by: govtcheez75
I just got new memory recently (Mushkin TCCD), and my computer running at 2500mhz fails prime after 12.5 hours. I am worried that my computer is not stable. So I would DEFINITELY be worried if it failed after 7 minutes.

I can run it at 2650 and everything will seem fine. The only way that I know it's not stable is that it won't pass prime for more than a few minutes. I'm pretty sure that anyone with a Winchester CAN run windows just fine at or above 2.6ghz.

I couldn't with my previous one. It could only reach 2345Mhz.

Anyway, prime for 12hours... I don't have that much time to loose. I have left it @291x9=2619Mhz (4128+) for 1hour and is stable. I will leave it like this I guess.

Thanks for the help guys !

 

[govtcheez75]

Originally posted by: McArra

Originally posted by: govtcheez75
I just got new memory recently (Mushkin TCCD), and my computer running at 2500mhz fails prime after 12.5 hours. I am worried that my computer is not stable. So I would DEFINITELY be worried if it failed after 7 minutes.

I can run it at 2650 and everything will seem fine. The only way that I know it's not stable is that it won't pass prime for more than a few minutes. I'm pretty sure that anyone with a Winchester CAN run windows just fine at or above 2.6ghz.

I couldn't with my previous one. It could only reach 2345Mhz.

Anyway, prime for 12hours... I don't have that much time to loose. I have left it @291x9=2619Mhz (4128+) for 1hour and is stable. I will leave it like this I guess.

Thanks for the help guys !

hehe...I prime overnight, and leave it on while I'm at work. By the time I get home, it'll be close to 20-24 hours. Sometimes I leave it on for two nights, since I have another computer, and a laptop. If it passes for 48+ hours, then I know it's pretty stable.

 

[DMonkey]

Failing Prime95 after seven minutes definitely isn't truely stable, it might run games and other apps fine for a while, but eventually you will get a lock-up. I would tone it down to 2600 mhz or raise the voltage a tad bit. Failing Prime95 after 12+ hours is good enough for most purposes though, unless you are running something extremely CPU intensive for long times.

 

[Shimmishim]

especially in 3D, errors show up as small glitches or pixel errors that aren't noticeable... but with prime... the error shows up as a rounding error or some sort of noticeable error...

i say priming for at least a minimum of 6 hours is required for your system to be considered stable.

when i test for 6+ hours I usually never get a BSOD...