SETI@home, P95 Torture Test, and Final Reality simultaneously running...

[moocat]

Is there anything else to heap on to test for stability? Is this overkill?

 

[Klosters]

Yes, it's overkill. A trouble-free 8 hour period of running SETI@home or Prime95(the at home version) and Final Reality simultaneously is the platinum seal of stability assurance for any OC'd CPU. My new P3 550E@733 ran FR overnight with no problem. Many folks consider this good enough. That was before I loaded ~250 Mb of progs on top of a fresh SE installation. Win98 also has trouble with FR. It won't run at all on some Win98 boxen, even if they aren't OC'd at all, and even with the Win98 patch for FR that you can DL from http://www.compucheap.com.

I'm hoping that running Jouni Vuorio's CPU Stability Test concurrently with QII's Timedemo 1, which is conveniently looped, overnight will restore my faith in my slightly troublesome box. My Three Finger's Jacob's loop prog for Crusher and Massive won't work anymore, drat. I sold my copy of QIII, so I can't use its Timedemo's. Onward, to total OC'd stability with no regard for heat waves, tornado's and other natural disasters!