On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:11:56 +0000, Daniel Czajko wrote:

I've been incrementally overclocking my 2700+ to see how far I can push it
and yet still be able to have it be stable in 3D games.

At certain OC settings, Prime95 will fail within 2 minutes, but 3DMark2003
doesn't (and I executed it several times).

How critical are the Prime95 errors, I mean, can they be ignored if other
benchmarks don't crash? I get one of those:
"Fatal Error: rounding was 0.499999 expected less than 0.4

The only CPU intensive tasks I'll be using this machine for are 3D games.

The bottom line is that if you run your unstable machine, sooner or later,
something is going to get corrupted. And the longer you run it, the more
corruption that will occur, eventually getting to the point that it won't
boot because of system file errors. In the menatime, there's no telling
how much else is corrupted, maybe your database, spreadsheets, etc.

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