Originally Posted by mroz
Quite
Some stats would be nice. Vid, Vcore, Temps at load, how long it was stability tested...
I'm jealous, though not complaining about my 3.4 clock - now stable for six weeks running mostly 24/7 with full load for about half that time, in blocks of around 12 to 24 hours.
I guess I probably should have put "stable" in quotes, like I did just now. My system does not crash under any of the applications I run currently, the most intense of which is video conversion, which still isn't very taxing on the system, but I can fill in a few blanks based on what I've seen:
Vcore is 1.4375V, at the heaviest loads I've watched (I use a core monitor in my sidebar) which have only maxed out a couple of the cores for a few minutes, the temperature gets to right around 50C, but usually stays just under that. Vid, is that short for video? I don't have any video so far, but I can take pictures of different things. RAM is middle of the road G.Skill, 4GB of F2-6400CL4D, DDR2 800. I can get the timings to 4-4-4-10-2T (from the standard 4-4-4-12) and run it at 2.1V. With my current overclock, I think that makes it DDR2 820 (1:1 timings). I should mention that mine is a G0 Q6600, also, although I'm sure you all assumed that if you're keeping up with the latest chips (and in a forum like this, I'd bet most of you are!). There's nothing else special about my setup, and everything is taken strictly from Clunk's guide. I use AS5 and a Zalman 9500 HS/Fan combo for my CPU. I did download OCCT and it won't run for more than five seconds, so calling my system "stable" is a bit of a stretch. I should say that for what I typically do, which is not that taxing on my system, it doesn't crash, and doesn't run too hot. I imagine that if I wanted a truly stable system, I would probably have to drop it back to something more like what others are running, in the 3.4GHz range, or perhaps increase the Vcore even more, which I'm hesitant to do since I don't like getting my CPU too hot.