run, the more certain you are of the stability. But for the ram, I always do at least two full passes with memtest. The rest is up to you. I normally don't do prime for hours and hours either, but it depends on how certain you want to be of its stability....

Stability test?. Hi, I have finally received my cable and installed the HSF & memory on my mobo (P5B dlx). I want to overclock my CPU (e6400) and memory. SO I was wondering what are the best stability test prime95, occt, everest? . Hi, I have finally...

New System with stability issues. Hey everyone. I recently built a computer from the ground up for the first time. Before I had always upgraded my systems, but a friend did the initial spec out and build. So this time I built it myself for the "learning...

Stability issues...need help. thanks in advance to anyone who can help out. I'm a little stumped on the cause of my instability. here's my system: CPU.....................QX9770 - 3.6GHz (9x400) - 1.1975v Motherboard.......ASUS Maximus Extreme ...

Question about GTX 285 in SLI (stability, power requirements). I've been looking at some new videocards recently. I've heard a lot of great things about BFG, so I decided to look at their line of GTX 200 series cards. Since I don't think I want to mess with...

Stability Issues. I had just built my first system and I am having some stability issues. I will just get random blue screens and I am not sure what the reason is. My system: AMD Phenom II x2 550 BE Asus M4A785TD-V EVO OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) 1066MHz WD...

Stability issues on a new homebuild. Hi guys. I am building a new system with all new parts, and I have a doozy of a stability issue. I am currently bench testing the following parts: EVGA 896-P3-1255-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Antec EarthWatts EA650...

EP45-UD3P First Overclock Stability Problems. Hey guys, This is my first overclock and it was fine when running xp i ran Prime 95 for about 4 hours and thourght it would be ok and it never crashed in XP. Then i switched to windows 7 64bit 7100 build, which...

Need help with boot and stability issues. Hi all. I built my own system about two years ago and it was working fine for a long time. One morning in the beginning of September, after a thunderstorm :(, the machine would not boot past the BIOS. I had made...