Is any amount of OCCT errors acceptable?

[Goose]

My OC is shown in the image below and running Heaven, Kombustor and playing Skyrim are all fine, no artefacts or anything. However, after about 75 minutes of running OCCT it produced 4 errors. I have no idea if that's a lot or if i should reduce my OC until i get 0 errors.

GPU temp never got above 60c and VRM temps were at 75c which all sounds ok me but then i'm really no expert. Would adding a touch more vcore help or could it just make things worse?

Thanks

 

[humbug]

My OC is shown in the image below and running Heaven, Kombustor and playing Skyrim are all fine, no artefacts or anything. However, after about 75 minutes of running OCCT it produced 4 errors. I have no idea if that's a lot or if i should reduce my OC until i get 0 errors.

GPU temp never got above 60c and VRM temps were at 75c which all sounds ok me but then i'm really no expert. Would adding a touch more vcore help or could it just make things worse?

Thanks

4 errors after 75 Minutes is actually very good, half the people in here (including me) would get 100's if not 1000's of errors after 75 Minutes of OCCT.

Your Temps are also good.

 

[Goose]

4 errors after 75 Minutes is actually very good, half the people in here (including me) would get 100's if not 1000's of errors after 75 Minutes of OCCT.

Good to know. I've seen people mention on overclock.net that if you're card gets even 1 error after 3-4 hours then its not stable and you should reduce your OC.

I guess i'll try and OC a bit more then

 

[Rroff]

Any errors isn't good - sooner or later a situation will come where a game or program crashes. That said OCCT, etc. tend to be fairly synthetic tests and failure scenarios where your getting minimal errors probably won't match with real world likely use of the GPU.

I don't really recommend baking your GPU with long sessions of OCCT - I usually use a mixture of programs including 15 minute runs of synthetic torture tests to get a feel for stability then back it off slightly so as to get a stable overclock.

A lot of people claim skyrim is good for showing instability on AMD GPUs - but not something I've spent much time doing - spent a bit using heaven on both AMD and nVidia and not really found it that useful for AMD but with Kepler based nVidia GPUs its usually pretty easy to find the stable core/ram bins as heaven will black screen 99% of the time if your a step above your stable bin.

 

[humbug]

Good to know. I've seen people mention on overclock.net that if you're card gets even 1 error after 3-4 hours then its not stable and you should reduce your OC.

I guess i'll try and OC a bit more then

Just keep it at a level where your not getting a string of errors, one here and one there every now and then is completely fine, its when it breaks out in a string of errors that its not good.

 

[Disco_P]

I'd try adding a touch more vcore and see if the errors go away.

Personally I have found heaven to be rubbish at detection instability in my GPU. Heaven would run fine at clocks 50mhz higher than BF3 allowed. Also I would avoid skyrim as a stress tester as that game likes to crash. Especially molded.

My uber stable test was to leave BF3 running all night and day (16+ hours). This would fill my server and provide constant 99% GPU use. Never had any stability issues after my card passed that test.