Posted 06/29/2007 at 03:25:33pm

The Falcon Northwest Mach-V brought up a controversy of what constitutes a reasonable application/program to test stability of overclocked rigs. The vendor you got a modified Prime95 program is only using one tool most overclockers use, of which I use Super-Pi (light test), 3DMark05 and 06 (heavy test), and then Orthos (super stress test)... if all these pass, you're good to go. 'Real world' is subjective instead of objective, which is 'this rig is 100% stable no matter WHAT you throw at it.' I for one think you should make Orthos and 3DMark06 permanent tests for all overclocked pc's that you review, otherwise stable goes only so far as using Windows calculator or playing Freecell... Fury PS: Falcon Northwest needs to sell the ICON cases seperately... I want one without paying ten grand.