Instability with BOINC only?

[krnmastersgt]

So anyways I've made my system stable at 3.6, 12+ hours of prime yadda yadda and I've been having problems with F@H and losing all my work from random errors, so I decided to take a break on that and start up WCG and E@H, but I keep getting the BSoD when I run E@H for about an hour, so I lowered my freq to 3.2 and I only run it 50% cpu power but is it common for a BOINC or F@H project to be more unstable than 12+ hours of prime?

 

[Fardringle]

Prime95 maxes out the processor temperature on my home PC (Sempron 64 2600+ running at 2.3Ghz) at 38 degrees Celsius. Several of the BOINC projects run it up to 41 and sometimes 42 degrees. So yes, it's possible that your computer is stable running Prime95 but it isn't truly stable when under the extra stress that some of the projects put on the CPU. It's also possible that your memory is borderline at the speed you are running it now since (I believe) Prime95 doesn't really make the RAM work very hard.

Do you still get the errors if you let BOINC run at 100% with the CPU clocked at 3.2Ghz instead of 3.6?

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Yes, that's possible. Had a Q6600 24h Prime/memtest86+/CCCP stable, but as soon as I fired up BOINC, the PC rebooted at least once every 12 hours. Still don't know what causes it, but for now I'm back to stock --> 100% BOINC stable.

 

[VirtualLarry]

BMC, were you using an IP35-E, by any chance? Which mobo were you using?

 

[BlackMountainCow]

No. It's an EVGA nForce 650i Ultra. Why?

 

[krnmastersgt]

Yeah the system is stable with BOINC at 3.2, I guess if I'm not folding I could just up to 3.6 for gaming and then just do a quick reboot down to 3.2 for BOINC. I guess BOINC is the real stability tester that we should all use then 😛