Sandy Bridge Stability

[JonnyGLC]

Bit of a weird one, i'd assumed that my OC was stable after running 20 passes at the maximum stress level with IBT as well as Linx and a few heavy gaming sessions... Only to try running P95 blend and it to BSOD after 5 minutes

To get it to pass P95 i've got to go from 1.32v to 1.35v at 4.5ghz, so it's a bit of a bump up. Anyone else having the same? BSOD error code is always 0x124

 

[DBT85]

Different progs stress different ways. That's why people saying "prime is crap, use linx" are just wrong. use both.

 

[lollyhayes]

Bit of a weird one, i'd assumed that my OC was stable after running 20 passes at the maximum stress level with IBT as well as Linx and a few heavy gaming sessions... Only to try running P95 blend and it to BSOD after 5 minutes

To get it to pass P95 i've got to go from 1.32v to 1.35v at 4.5ghz, so it's a bit of a bump up. Anyone else having the same? BSOD error code is always 0x124

Hey mate BSOD with 0x124 error code means either more Vcore or more QPI (gigabyte) or vccio (Asus et al) the qpi will be for your ram and should be within 0.5 of your ram voltage.
If your running at 1866 2000 or 2133 or have 4 stick of ram you might need the QPI bump to get it stable.
QPI should not got above 1.2v really though...
It could be down to ram as the blend tests that ram and CPU unlike the others...
You could try the L2 torture test on prime95 as this is resident in your cpu cache and as such doesn't need to use the ram much...

 

[Max3]

yeah I'm finding linx 20 passes failing in prime blend I'll probably pump more v just to make 4.5ghz - just waiting on my frio to arrive. Stock cooling reached 77c tonight under linx

 

[RavenXXX2]

I just use P95 for stability, if I'm stable in that I'm 100% stable in windows and gaming, that's all you need to know.

 

[Doppleganger]

I quite like OCCT for a quick stability test. It usually sniffs out any flaky overclocks.

 

[SimonMaltby]

I tried Intel Burn test and LinX and both did not maintain 100% cpu use, only Prime 95 does that for me, so as a real stress test Prime is my favourite. I do agree that its best to use several different tests to complement each other.