orthos fail, safe?

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Spec is: e6600 on a bfg 680I with zalman CNPS9500

Running at 400x9 with mem at 500mhz 5-5-5-15 2t (2x512 corsair xms2 pc6400)

Basically at this speed orthos fails after a couple of seconds, bet everything else that i have thrown at it (3dmarks/superpi/games/browsing/music/dvd) runs absolutely sweet as a nut with no crashes whatso ever.

Is this still safe to run (idles at 50c though..)

It's not the memory, as it does the same when its at stock.

This also occurs from about 3.2ghz upwards, at which i need to increase the voltage a fair bit (1.5v+) to make it orthos stable. I will eventually be putting this baby under water, so in the future im not too bothered about the voltage, i've seen people running these at 1.65v with temps still below 60c on orthos.

Would it be better to clock it down a bit and wait for the water cooling, or just leave it as it is, due to it not crashing at all?

Cheers,

Phil

 

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it was at 1.6v at one point D) just to get it at 3600mhz, but i deemed it way too unsafe, i dont really like to see the temps of this exceed 60c, although it's probably good for 80c.

With regards to toher voltages, i have played around with them, and most have actually been upped to keep it stable (non-orthos that is)

Managed to back the voltage down to 1.45 and is 24h orthos stable @ 3300mhz.. This is fine for me, i got me a bunch of screenies anyways to say that 'this is what i got '

How does the hdd corruption work then? thought most of these were linked to pci speed locks etc? Athough i see where most of you are coming from with the 'needs to be orthos stable for x time' etc, find it odd that orthos running both cores maxed leaps out at 3 seconds, but supreme commander running both cores maxed out runs indefinately (yes i tried this for about 10 hours.. i know, way too much time on my hands...)

Cheers for your imput guys