Prime95/OC Question

[Megatomic]

I did a multiplier OC on my Tbird and went to 1.4GHz on my 1.33GHz chip. I then ran the Prime95 torture test to check the stability of the OC. It ran for 1hr6min before it turned in a hardware fault/rounding error and halted. While the test was running, I had 4 instances of IE 6 running, Outlook 2K running, and all the other system tray stuff I normally have running up. Is this a true failure or is it ok all things considered?

The only cooling in the entire system is the Taisol hsf and psu fan. The chip baselines at 45C and was bouncing between 50 and 51C during the test. Next week I get my Antec SX830 case and it will have 1 front mounted intake and one rear mounted discharge fan installed so the temps SHOULD be lower. Now, should I keep the OC going in the meantime? I plan to definitely use it when I get the new case setup.

Tips? Thoughts? Thanks!

 

[MCS]

I always found that with a non-overclocked CPU I could leave Prime95 running in the background for days while I did all sorts of things including gaming. If I got a round-off/hardware error I did not consider an overclock to be stable. However - there are people here that will argue that Prime95 has never run for them EVEN when their CPU is at default. You should ideally run a whole magnitude of things to test stability and then if Prime95 is the only thing that fails then you will have to make the decision whether that's "good enough for you" or not.

Prime95 practically drove me to stop overclocking at one point

 

[sulu17]

Hi,

We've run Prime for awhile on alot of new computers.
Is anything is fine then Prime should not run into errors. Where I work we run this on all the machines before they ship out. If prime fails, then we discover there really is problem with, ram, mobo, cpu, or cooling.