Should I class this stable ?

[dC2006]

Hi peeps, I need a bit of advice regarding whats stable or not. I am currently benching and trying out my setup (sig) at a new 9x320 1:1 1T.

Now what I use for stability testing is as follows, 5 loops of memtest, a few hrs for sp2004, 1 hr encode of a movie, 1 hr of prime, superpi 32m, bf2 and other games played for a few hrs. All above tests pass at 9x310, but at 9x320 only superpi32 fails.

I have been tweaking bios settings for days, esp the mem settings, but with no luck. I have also checked out xtremesystems/dfistreet forums, their oc and high fsb database records for people with similar ram as mine but none have gone 1:1 this high with this pc4400 ultra-x ram.

Should I leave it as is and class the system as stable or keep tweaking until it passes superpi 32m ? or any other advice you peeps can give to get my rig stable ?

 

[Minstadave]

Hi peeps, I need a bit of advice regarding whats stable or not. I am currently benching and trying out my setup (sig) at a new 9x320 1:1 1T.

Now what I use for stability testing is as follows, 5 loops of memtest, a few hrs for sp2004, 1 hr encode of a movie, 1 hr of prime, superpi 32m, bf2 and other games played for a few hrs. All above tests pass at 9x310, but at 9x320 only superpi32 fails.

I have been tweaking bios settings for days, esp the mem settings, but with no luck. I have also checked out xtremesystems/dfistreet forums, their oc and high fsb database records for people with similar ram as mine but none have gone 1:1 this high with this pc4400 ultra-x ram.

Should I leave it as is and class the system as stable or keep tweaking until it passes superpi 32m ? or any other advice you peeps can give to get my rig stable ?

If you use a divider at 9x320 instead of running 1:1 does that get you stability. I spent ages using TCCD at 300+ HTT 1:1 until I found it simply wasn't getting me tangible performance benefits and started using a divider.

 

[SiriusB]

Hi peeps, I need a bit of advice regarding whats stable or not. I am currently benching and trying out my setup (sig) at a new 9x320 1:1 1T.

Now what I use for stability testing is as follows, 5 loops of memtest, a few hrs for sp2004, 1 hr encode of a movie, 1 hr of prime, superpi 32m, bf2 and other games played for a few hrs. All above tests pass at 9x310, but at 9x320 only superpi32 fails.

I have been tweaking bios settings for days, esp the mem settings, but with no luck. I have also checked out xtremesystems/dfistreet forums, their oc and high fsb database records for people with similar ram as mine but none have gone 1:1 this high with this pc4400 ultra-x ram.

Should I leave it as is and class the system as stable or keep tweaking until it passes superpi 32m ? or any other advice you peeps can give to get my rig stable ?

If you can't run SuperPi then no, your system isn't stable. NOTHING should fail - ever.

SiriusB

 

[Minstadave]

If you can't run SuperPi then no, your system isn't stable. NOTHING should fail - ever.

SiriusB

Depends what you use your computer for really, I've had Prime95 unstable overclocks that are fine for gaming and normal use without problems, ideally everything should be stable, but you can get away with it.

Superpi 32M failing is pretty unstable though.

 

[daven1986]

if it runs normally without crashing, and you can play your games for as long as you want without crashes then it is stable imo. i mean are you really gonna sit there and compute 32mb super pi all day, no, but you are gonna play games etc.


daven

 

[Dark_Angel]

if it runs normally without crashing, and you can play your games for as long as you want without crashes then it is stable imo. i mean are you really gonna sit there and compute 32mb super pi all day, no, but you are gonna play games

Completely agreed. I personally think its just a case of making sure everything you play and run is stable, if it is, and the temps are crazy high, then I think you should be ok.

After a couple of weeks, you should be able to figure out how stable the whole system is as a whole