Should I look for absolute stability in prime95 if it crashed at stock?

IHazABone

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My current settings of my 8350 at 4.4 Ghz on 1.424V (mobo refuses to adjust to where I set it, at 1.435V) and my Radeon HD7770 at 1150 MHz core and 1325 MHz memory (GPU, not RAM) have been stable for the last 10 hours for everything I've put it through - except the CPU on prime95. Two threads always fail in about two minutes, then it continues for another 15, and the PC locks up without warning. However, at stock, it did this too. I've maintained ~100% CPU and GPU usage for hours at a time wihout any problems, so I would think it relatively stable for general use. Should I ignore it, underclock, or strive for ultimate stability? I will be upgrading my motherboard soon anyways.
 

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Every memory test I've run so far (including swapping out and testing each individual DIMM) has shown it to be all good. Could it just be a slightly sub-par chip? I know that even the same model can vary in stability and performance, or quality.
 

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I have watched my core voltage, and although I have it set at 1.435V in the BIOS, it hangs around 1.424V. Under load, it drops extremely far down to 1.33V (it has now stopped crashing at 1.38V as it was before). I have no Load-Line Calibration or Vdroop counter.