Originally posted by: Rubycon
I o/c personally but nowhere to the levels that I used to once I found the flaws in determining what is really stable and what's not.
You know, I wonder about that.
I have two E2140s @ 3.2Ghz, 1.425v (BIOS), 1.36v (CPU-Z), without the AC they ran at up to 9C from TJmax with CoolerMaster HyperTX2 coolers. Gigabyte P35-DS3R v1.0 mobo.
I also have an E4400 L2 stepping on an ASRock Conroe865PE, running at 2.8Ghz, default voltage (since there is no vcore adjust on the mobo at all).
The ASRock, I don't use, I just leave it running nonstop at a relative's house. I leave it for months at a time and it doesn't crash, although the ethernet switch I have it connected to seems possibily flaky, as I sometimes get messages from SeventeenorBust about no connectivity sometimes. I had to power-cycle the ethernet switch once to fix that.
But the Gigabyte boards I use, downloading, web browsing, MagicJack, etc. I also run SeventeenorBust in the background. But on those rigs, I don't have stable uptimes greater than a month. Either one instance of SeventeenorBust crashes, or I get a bluescreen. So far, there have been three major crashes, either SB quits or I get a bluescreen. One time the bluescreen might have been due to a thunderstorm, even though I have them connected to APC ES-550 UPSes.
So am I stable hardware-wise, if I can run for a month, or am I unstable, since I can't seem to run longer than a month.
I pass 24hr of Prime95 25.x, 24hr of Memtest86+, etc. I haven't run F@H on these rigs.