Prime Stable Q6600

Skinner.Daddy · 9 Sep 2007 at 19:52

I am currently overclocking my Q6600.

To class it as stable I'm assuming (from the post and previous experience) that prime is still the tool to use?

But which one? is 2004 the same as 95 other than the GUI? How long should it run to be sure of stability?

cheers guys

Darkwave · 9 Sep 2007 at 19:54

This is going to get ugly because certain people around here do nothing but argue about what defines stable.

Skinner.Daddy · 9 Sep 2007 at 19:55

lol, i can imagine, what have you got your G0 running at?

Darkwave · 9 Sep 2007 at 19:59

2.8GHz so far because I'm having no end of problems with this computer lately.

Primes fine for an hour or two at that though, not tested any longer.

Katoom · 9 Sep 2007 at 20:00

Get version 25.4 of prime, it stresses all four cores.

If you go by easyriders thread, it's 8hrs.

str · 9 Sep 2007 at 20:03

Ignore me.

Skinner.Daddy · 9 Sep 2007 at 20:08

Katoom said:
Get version 25.4 of prime, it stresses all four cores.

Well when I started Prime 2004 it said to have one instant of it open for each core so have 4 running at once, only running the CPU test atm as I haven't oc'd my ram.

Margaret · 10 Sep 2007 at 04:01

You can test Prime yes that means it should be stable for everything if it works fine on that for a number of hours, however if it fails Prime after a short while that doesn't mean it's completely screwed up and not stable, I find playing some games, some video encoding (if you do any of that stuff) is also a nice way to test stability (Not like you bought a PC to 'play' Prime is it).

However for 100% guaranteed stability Prime is usually what people use, though I know people who fail Prime after 10 mins but can play games and do everything else perfect.