stability

[adidas]

I can see how one reach high ghz (liquid nitrogen anyone?) but I'm much more interested in knowing how one would actually keep an oc'ed system stable. :confused:

I would love to hear from people who have run a modern cpu (12 month or less) oc'ed system for a long period of time (6 months or more). In particular, I'd like to learn about:

1) what cpu and by how much did you overclock? 5% 25%
2) how did it affect your system stability? (hopefully not at all)
3) how did it affect heat dissipation? What cooling system do you use?

Again the idea here is to focuse on long term, stable overclocks... oc' and forget, that sort of thing... something we don't hear about a lot :)

Cheers,

Steve.

[Halk]

I tend to find the highest overclock I can get, then get the best memory timings that work with that. Prime it for 12+ hours. I then take it down a couple of notches from there and use that as what I'll use as "maximum". Generally I have it running 24/7 at a more moderate overclock.

My Barton 2500+ I ran at 220 FSB 100% stable 24/7 for over a year.
My 2600+ mobile ran at 230 FSB 100% stable 24/7 for a few months. * Might have been 220x11 according to my signature! Very similar though.

I've not settled on a stable overclock with my SD3700+ as yet, since there are other stability issues with it - It's less than a month old and I've not done my "proper" install of Windows yet.

I expect to run that at 250x10, stock is 200x11, so it's around a 15% increase.

I use watercooling.