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question about OC stability
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the thing is, I'm OC in order to play games better. If Windows doesn't freeze or anything @ 3.4Ghz, why should I care about Prime failing???
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it simply means that it is stable when using 2 cores. However, when you have a full load, (running all 4 cores 100%) you don't have enough juice and the cpu is starved to death. Having instability issues is always dangerous.
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sorry, I'm not very smart.
What do you mean by not having enough juice? voltage?
what kind of danger do I risk other than Windows freezing? Like I said, Windows never froze on me... That's why I'm confused. Games don't require that much of CPUs, so of course my q6600 will be stable @ 3.4Ghz...
What do you mean by not having enough juice? voltage?
what kind of danger do I risk other than Windows freezing? Like I said, Windows never froze on me... That's why I'm confused. Games don't require that much of CPUs, so of course my q6600 will be stable @ 3.4Ghz...
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juice = voltage.
When you overclock your cpu, the power requirement always increases, even without increasing the voltage. The cpu will draw more amps.
Play a quad-core utilizing game, and it would bsod. If it BSOD, you risk hard drive corruption. Perhaps now, you won't notice the downside to the instability issue because you do not play any games that stress your cores that much, but once you do, you'll notice it.
Simply increase the voltage a few increments until you get it dual orthos stable for ~10hs, and it should be 'stable'.
Imagine while you're playing game, and you're so unlucky that when your rig right at the very short moment that its going to freeze, while its writing to your harddrive, the corrupted OS in memory decided to trash your drive's OS and it's content and etc beyond bootable and completely corrupted the whole drive.
How about that ?
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8hours is pretty long, but i don't think that is hwbot stable? I'd personally say that if it passes 8h, it's pretty darn stable.
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That is a bit much for me but yeah 8 is fine .
After 2 I get board and want to play LOL ...
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now that is not the right way to go about it. LOL
2hs is a good 'milestone' to fool around a bit more, but to test long-term stability having a good 8~15h run is a good thing to do.
Well, this is purely my oppinion about how long is enough for stability test ?
Two examples :
- Your mom's rig, used mostly for browsing, short emailing and retrieving cooking recipes that most of the times never reach more than lets say 25% of the cpu load, "AND" she never used that rig more than 1 hour and not more than 3 times a week.
- Your rig, used almost everday for about 10 hours for intensive gaming and almost 90% of the time spent on 100% CPU utilisation. Yes, you look like zombie since you never sleep well enough !
Now the "common sense" :
- IMO, I believe 3-4 hours is more than enough for your mom's rig, right ? Do you agree ?
- For your rig, do you think 8 hours is enough ? How bout 12 hours or even 24 hours ?
It's all about taking the risk vs the practicality limit on how long you should test, of course the longer the better, it is all depends how is the "typical" usage on that rig.
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Two examples :
- Your mom's rig, used mostly for browsing, short emailing and retrieving cooking recipes that most of the times never reach more than lets say 25% of the cpu load, "AND" she never used that rig more than 1 hour and not more than 3 times a week.
- Your rig, used almost everday for about 10 hours for intensive gaming and almost 90% of the time spent on 100% CPU utilisation. Yes, you look like zombie since you never sleep well enough !
Now the "common sense" :
- IMO, I believe 3-4 hours is more than enough for your mom's rig, right ? Do you agree ?
- For your rig, do you think 8 hours is enough ? How bout 12 hours or even 24 hours ?
It's all about taking the risk vs the practicality limit on how long you should test, of course the longer the better, it is all depends how is the "typical" usage on that rig.
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My hdd has never been corrupted.
Well that is good to hear . you get one
! I for one have had it happen and really I don't see a big deal with it at all .as long as I can reinstall what do I care ?
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i've never had a hdd fail on me, then again this is my first pc that i've had running for 2 months or more. but what i plan to do is get a 750 gb strickly for backup's in a vantec esata external. i will backup ever 2 weeks or month. it will be off otherwise so it should last a good long time.
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I do it 2-3 times once for an hour or so the next for 2 then 4 hours and that is it ! once it passes that I am done !
