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Thankyou nickeverett, most helpful and has clarified load line calibration, I think I on the ultra high setting so will try it on high and see what happens. Thanks for those links.
 
Ok guys, llc was at extreme so changed it to ultra high, been running prime for half hour and vcore in cpuz now reads 1.376 then 1.384, it just keeps going between these two figures, temps are good too, max 60,66,68,66. This is all on the 4.8ghz overclock and vcore set to 1.38v in the bios. Is this okay?

Will leave prime running for a couple of hours or so.
 
bulldog147 said:
Mine 5.0GHz at 1.38v for 35 hours prime stable as max temp hoovered around 67-69C with silver arrow with dual fans of 140mm in my antec 1200 case

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2337779
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Oh man, that's brilliant, :eek: wouldn't mind that case myself, if you don't mind me asking, do you get those temps during summer months?
Just noticed you're using cpuz version 1.60 I'm on 1.59, time for upgrade me thinks.
 
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spankingtexan said:
Oh man, that's brilliant, :eek: wouldn't mind that case myself, if you don't mind me asking, do you get those temps during summer months?
Just noticed you're using cpuz version 1.60 I'm on 1.59, time for upgrade me thinks.
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Those temp are including my small computer room with central heating on (central heating is 22C) room temp 24C, so, the summer heatwave might add another 7-10C but all the temp will be around 57C-62C during games without stressing prime. So, it should be ok in summer.
 
spankingtexan said:
Six hours prime time at 4.8ghz, vcore 1.38v and everything great, thanks all for your help and advise, now for some game time.:-)
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I wouldn't be sure an OC is stable until atleast 12 hrs of prime. My 4.8 OC BSOD 124 after 11 hours of prime. And I had done intel burn x10 on max before that. I've read that a full cycle of prime takes 17hours, so I would concider that to be stable.
 
I don't get why people use prime or any stress test tbh. Just go about your usually gaming and day to day usage. Prime stresses your CPU way harder than your normal tasks are going to. Just putting your CPU under uneccesary levels of heat and power draw for large amounts of time I find rather stupid.
 
Spenty said:
I don't get why people use prime or any stress test tbh. Just go about your usually gaming and day to day usage. Prime stresses your CPU way harder than your normal tasks are going to. Just putting your CPU under uneccesary levels of heat and power draw for large amounts of time I find rather stupid.
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Its better than a BSOD in the middle of a gaming session or even worse, in the middle of photoshop/lightroom/avid work
 
nickeverett said:
Its better than a BSOD in the middle of a gaming session or even worse, in the middle of photoshop/lightroom/avid work
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I had my Phenom 2 clocked to 4.2ghz and never used a stress test program. Just ran games and if there was a problem raised the voltage. Prime just causes temperatures 10-15c above what you'll see in games, photoshop, encoding etc etc.
 
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