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Hey, this is going to sound really, really stupid but I have a Phenom 965 @ 4Ghz. it's somewhat stable. I've ran prime95 for about half an hour (i know thats nowhere near long enough) and played games for hours and ran into no issues. If prime found errors after a long time, does that make it stable for what I use it for? Is this safe? 

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Sorry i don't have an answer to your question but, a question about your rig, you have a decent setup so why do you run a phenom? Are you going to upgrade to a 8350 in the future?

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I just use AIDA64, for an hour or so then i use IBT High if pass then its fine for me :P. Noticed that Prime95 doesnt actually stress my CPU out as much as AIDA64 cuz in cpu-z my freqs drop on Prime but not on AIDA64.

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Sorry i don't have an answer to your question but, a question about your rig, you have a decent setup so why do you run a phenom? Are you going to upgrade to a 8350 in the future?

Money really haha. I have a low paid job, saving for a 4670k :)

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 4Ghz | Cooler: Corsair H80i | Case: Corsair 300R | Motherbord: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3| RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1600MHz White |


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I just use AIDA64, for an hour or so then i use IBT High if pass then its fine for me :P. Noticed that Prime95 doesnt actually stress my CPU out as much as AIDA64 cuz in cpu-z my freqs drop on Prime but not on AIDA64.

I will have a go at that! Thanks  :lol:

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Hey, this is going to sound really, really stupid but I have a Phenom 965 @ 4Ghz. it's somewhat stable. I've ran prime95 for about half an hour (i know thats nowhere near long enough) and played games for hours and ran into no issues. If prime found errors after a long time, does that make it stable for what I use it for? Is this safe? 

if it is getting some errors after a long time then it should be ok for a good 4 hour gaming session because prime runs it at 100% pretty much all the time whereas a game won't. 

 

Sorry i don't have an answer to your question but, a question about your rig, you have a decent setup so why do you run a phenom? Are you going to upgrade to a 8350 in the future?

a phenom is better than a  8350 in most cases. unless you play stuff which can use all those cores.

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if it is getting some errors after a long time then it should be ok for a good 4 hour gaming session because prime runs it at 100% pretty much all the time whereas a game won't. 

 

a phenom is better than a  8350 in most cases. unless you play stuff which can use all those cores.

Considering more games are using more cores and mantle...i would get an 8350

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Money really haha. I have a low paid job, saving for a 4670k :)

All you have to change is your cpu, why change platform, 8350 is better value for money 

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what are your temperatures?

full load around 55 :)

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All you have to change is your cpu, why change platform, 8350 is better value for money 

Fancy a change from AMD

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 4Ghz | Cooler: Corsair H80i | Case: Corsair 300R | Motherbord: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3| RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1600MHz White |


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