How to know your OC is stable (3770k OC)

[Gorminator]

Hallo all.

I am still a noob then its comes to OC an cpu, but i have flowed the guide that TTL did on the 1155 Socket. But my Question now is, how to know that your OC i stable?

Well right now i got an result with an 3770K Running @4200 at 1.110 volt set fixed. (on an Asrock z77 Extreme 4 bord).
The system has been doing OCCT fore an Hour, when after that prime95 in an hour, no blue screen there.
After that i sad down an played some Borderlands 2 for an hour or 2, and boom, the game crashed, does that mean that the OC is not stable?

I put the vcore up +0.005 just to see, but the game haved crashed since.

 

[SeekaX]

An hour of OCCT/prime95 doesn't mean your OC is stable. I had OCs crash after 3+ hours. If you want to make sure your OC is solid you have to run 24h.

 

[Gorminator]

An hour of OCCT/prime95 doesn't mean your OC is stable. I had OCs crash after 3+ hours. If you want to make sure your OC is solid you have to run 24h.

Damn okay i will try to get it to do an 24 Hour OCCT test on my pc then

 

[agent_x007]

An hour of OCCT/prime95 doesn't mean your OC is stable. I had OCs crash after 3+ hours. If you want to make sure your OC is solid you have to run 24h.

To me it's stable enough after 1h of testing, and if it didn't have BSOD/errors after a month of normal usage (games + web, etc.) it's 99% stable.

 

[NeverBackDown]

8 hours at a minimum should be the average time you run each test for stability.

 

[Master&Puppet]

It depends on how much stability you need. There's no point overvolting by over testing for the sake of it. Experience has taught me that for Ivy and Haswell builds a successful 10 mins of Prime95 +0.020v will do for gaming, everyday use and even a bit more. I've always gone by the method of getting the system stable in the OS and then adding 0.005v if it's not enough.