It won't happen. Orthos is there for that reason - it's a test environment. It's written to put your CPU under extreme load, not to simulate an everyday environment in which those same conditions may be met.Justintime said:And the day an app or game puts your system under those extreme conditions, who're ya gonna blame?
Overclocking nightmare with Q6600 unsure what to do. Please help ?
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mofnet said:
What utter nonsense.
Anyone who does not test their PC for stabilty when overclocking are deluding themselves.
If your PC cannot calculate properly its a failed clock and the CPU is not operating correctly.
NO IF's NO BUT's its malfunctioning.
Thats the bottom line.
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What do you mean calculate?
And would you say then that if i could play every game i wanted to and do everything on my pc without a crash. yet its not stable acording to all your tests then its bad and that i shouldn't do it? and that i should make it slower even though it doesn't crash doing what i need it to or show any signs of crashing?
And would you say then that if i could play every game i wanted to and do everything on my pc without a crash. yet its not stable acording to all your tests then its bad and that i shouldn't do it? and that i should make it slower even though it doesn't crash doing what i need it to or show any signs of crashing?
In the same boat as you, and many other users on this forum. My E6600 has been running @ 3.6 since I purchased it last year. It fails Orthos after around 1 hour or so. Last time it crashed? Funnily enough when it ran Orthos about, ooo 300 days ago or so.Jihad said:
I don't know what else to say really
Guess I just like living on the edge, haha.I tested mine for a few hours with orthos after overclocking, and sure it was stable. But I noticed one thing, the cpu gets a good 4 or 5 degrees hotter under orthos than it does with any application I have that puts it at 100% load. So I have to agree that even if it had failed orthos, it might never crash on everyday use.
We're not taling abuot crashes here... stress tests are programs that are designed to make your cpu calculate lots of things, if it fails, it means it's calculated something incorrectly...
so what happens if you are working on a very important piece of work, and it calculates something wrong when u save it.. no error appears, but next time you come to open that document.. oh dear, it's not there
Same goes for anything, can corrupt installs of any program, including the os...
Well i don't, some of the data i handle i can't afford to lose...
If you search these forums (when the search function comes back
) you will find quite a few posts about people that have had their OS install corrupted from overclocking.. it's not as uncommon as most people think...
so what happens if you are working on a very important piece of work, and it calculates something wrong when u save it.. no error appears, but next time you come to open that document.. oh dear, it's not there
Same goes for anything, can corrupt installs of any program, including the os...
BubbySoup said:I don't know what else to say really
Well i don't, some of the data i handle i can't afford to lose...
If you search these forums (when the search function comes back
) you will find quite a few posts about people that have had their OS install corrupted from overclocking.. it's not as uncommon as most people think...