I currently am running a 555BE in a 990fx Sabertooth with a Zalman CNSP9900A LED HSF. I have it OC'd to 4.33GHz (stock 1.428v) and idle it runs at 23c. My NB is OC'd to 2808, and my RAM is running around 728/stick (dual channel) if im correct in that thinking. All temps seem fine, and my purpose for this machine is soley for gaming, media (movies,music), and internet surfing. Data transfer is negligable (download games rarely) and i do most if not all excel/word projects on my laptop. Running Prime95, what would you consider stable for time ran? I am very new to OC'ing, which is why the thread caught my post, but spending $1,100 on a system causes me to take caution when "tinkering". Any advice would be greatly appreciated[/quotemsg
There are lots of opinions on that, some state you must run it for 24 hours others say an hour will do just fine. Here on toms there is an overclocking table that deems your stable after 2 hours and i agree with that time 100% as you will never do anything in normal day to day operation that will tax your system like prime 95 does. Prime 95 is a good program and will find most errors with in that 2 hour window
when I’m trying to find new clocks i will run prime for a half hour then reboot and up my clock repeating this until prime won’t run for its half hour ill then back the clocks off to a good clock that did run its half hour test and run it for 2 hours to insure it is stable.
Keep a close eye on your temps while running prime 95
Amd overclocking table is here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261868-29-overclocking-club