Stable system

Ade74 · 17 Dec 2006 at 07:07

is there a reason why an 8 hour orthos implies a overclock is stable, as opposed to a 6 hour orthos?

w3bbo · 17 Dec 2006 at 08:49

No overclock can be considered completely stable, they could fail orthos eventually be it 24hrs, 48hrs, 200hrs etc. 'Stable enough' is what you are looking for and 8 hours is considered to be a general consensus that it is 'stable enough' to run most if not all aplications without crashing. I have had orthos fail on me after 52 hours (left it running while I was away one weekend lol) but imo that is 'stable enough' for what I used my pc for. Some don't even use orthos to declare their PC stable - if it runs thier applications fine then they consider it to be stable. Do what makes you feel comfortable that your pc is 'stable'.

Ade74 · 17 Dec 2006 at 09:22

thanks it seems stable enough for me.

Socaddict · 17 Dec 2006 at 11:16

is it just me or is orthos not all that great as a stability test now?

My CPU fails orthos after about 8 seconds, but it have never failed me while gaming in anyway whatsoever.

joeyjojo · 17 Dec 2006 at 11:30

It means it fails immediately at accurate calculations. You can game fine, but you wouldn't want to do anything important with it (folding etc.)

TI66ER · 17 Dec 2006 at 12:45

when i've oc mine a bit too far or not got settings quite right,orthos fails within seconds,so if i run it for 20mins and it dont fail thats fine for me.

does it run my sys without crashing any of my progs/games is what matters.if it runs fine i dont thnk it matters about orthos.i dont think theres many progs,games or otherwise,that push a system like orthos does anyway.

personal choice i guess,or maybe i just cant be arsed to wait 8 hours while orthos is running

joeyjojo · 17 Dec 2006 at 13:35

Also, I wouldn't feel good about defragmenting or copying large files around on such an unstable system. Bound to cause problems somewhere.

IceShock · 17 Dec 2006 at 18:05

as Jokester pointed out to me. and this techneequ worked for me,

overclock by 50-100mhz per time, then prime for 30 mins, and when you finally get the ending result you want and it completes a prime, then use prime for about 12-24 hours depending on how much time you have.

(i only primed for 3 hours

but its fine for me)

Socaddict · 17 Dec 2006 at 18:20

joeyjojo said:
It means it fails immediately at accurate calculations. You can game fine, but you wouldn't want to do anything important with it (folding etc.)

not too sure on that. does dual superpi fine up to 32M.

sablabra · 17 Dec 2006 at 19:20

I don't think orthos is such a great stress testing program. What REALLY testes my computer is transcoding a movie in Nero. I've had oc's 12hr dual prime95 stable, and I got an almost instant freeze when I started transcoding... Upping the Vcore one notch helped though