Would you consider this stable?

[AmpedSilence]

I just finished building my bro's computer. i need some advice on if you guys would consider this a stable computer for everyday use and light gaming....

Specs:
AMD 64 3000+ E3
epox 9NPA+ultra (9/23/2005 BIOS)
Cosair 1 gig PC3200 VS
Chaintech 6600
On-board everything else

I have currently have it OC'd to 2.25 Ghz
(250x9 + 1:0.8 divider and 2.5-3-3-8-1T timings).

I have been running Prime95 until it errored after 32 hours. Currently, it is running 3DMark03 in a loop, now going on 14 hours.

I am happy with the OC, but i am not sure since Prime errored after 32 hours it can be considered "stable". What do you think? Plus, anything else that i could do to check?

btw, this is my first post ever, even though i have been an avid reader for almost three years now.

TIA

 

[Avalon]

Might want to raise the CPU voltage just a tad, and you will be set to go.

 

[Ronnie]

I think you will be fine, how are your temps, what cooling and what are your voltages.

Welcome to Anandtech.

 

[AmpedSilence]

Voltage is already on the +0.075 setting. CPU-Z is showing 1.52-ish under full load, 1.56-ish on idle.

temps : 34 idle, 42 full load

and would version of nforce drivers make a difference? I was reading on the forums that the latest 6.66 version drivers not that great, but the version before are much better 6.57-or-something. And does installing the IDE SW drivers cause issues?

 

[Shimmishim]

seroiusly... an error after 32 hours is just ridiculous...

i'd consider it stable after 24.

i heard of someone getting an error after 800 hours before... (they left it running and forgot about it).

 

[tbooth]

Well, technically if you error out of Prime95 at any time your PC is not stable. However, had you stopped Prime at say, 24 hours without error, most would have said that you are totally stable, so it's probably fine for everyday usage and gaming. I would probably either raise voltage a tad or back the HTT down a couple Mhz.

 

[Thor86]

Are you testing using Large FFTs in Prime95? If you are, then erroring out after 24+ hours usually means a heat build-up issue.

 

[MustangSVT]

How do you use your computer?
do you shut it down when you dont use it?


What do you use it for? games?


For me, that's stable enough... but my 3200+ is o/ced only little so it runs cool.. and it handles everything well for now.