Am I stable yet?

[Stefe04]

While I was overclocking my CPU (i5 2500k), I looked up many guides for stress and stability tests. However, there are so, SO many different recommendations for different settings and durations for the tests.

Currently, these are the tests that I've completed:

30 minutes of the 1344K test on Prime95
30 minutes of the 1792K test on Prime95
20 passes at the Maximum setting on Intel Burn Test
4 hours with everything but Local Disk checked off on AIDA64
2 passes of CineBench
8 hours of the in-place Large FFTs test on Prime95

All done with no errors or bluescreens. Temperatures while testing were all below 75 C. However, like I said, there are so many different configurations for stress and stability testing that I would probably be doing this until next week before I start using my computer normally again.

So, I must ask you, good people of LTT:

Am I stable yet? Or do I need to do some more testing? If I do need to do some more testing, what program do I use under what settings?

I've currently got my 2500k at 4.3 GHz at 1.25v. My setup, in case you guys are wondering:

Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V Pro
CPU: i5 2500k @ 4.3 GHz (1.25v)
CPU Cooler: Hyper 212 EVO
PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro 700w
RAM: Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz
GPU: ASUS Strix GTX 970 4GB

[Nena Trinity]

Erm... Yes? Try so games?!

[Tedster]

You've stress tested far more than I'd ever consider doing. I'd say you're pretty stable, but I assume you're not doing anything mission critical or anything that would require you to not crash.

 

As long as temps are fine, you should be fine.

[blueballs]

I do 72h of stress test for my system.

[Godlygamer23]

Stress testing really never "ends." It may end formally, but you're always going to be looking for potential problems, and you're always going to be informally testing.

[Majestic]

I do 72h of stress test for my system.

 

Why not just 2 years.

 

/hyperbole

[Tedster]

I do 72h of stress test for my system.

That's pretty extreme.

[Kyuubixchidori]

to test if im stable, i just use the programs i normally use. It doesnt matter if its "stable" as long as it doesnt crash with what YOU use. 

 

like how my 7970s I could turn down the voltage WAY more when mining then gaming. it was stable when i was mining, but no where close to stable at anything more then just desktop. but thats all they where used for, so didn't matter. 

[Godlygamer23]

That's pretty extreme.

"Overclocked my CPU by 300MHz. Time to stress it for 72 hours."

[blueballs]

perfectionist is one of my default 

[Stefe04]

Stress testing really never "ends." It may end formally, but you're always going to be looking for potential problems, and you're always going to be informally testing.

 

And I will deal with those problems as they come. But it looks like I'm in the green for some real-world use.

[Tedster]

And I will deal with those problems as they come. But it looks like I'm in the green for some real-world use.

Better than I've ever been.