After some early errors in prime, I have since increased my vcore to 1.7 to obtain a 250 FSB on my p4 2.8/asus p4p800 deluxe, and the vdimm to 1.75. I tried other increments for the vcore before this, and each time prime95 would run longer, 1 min, 5 min, 1.5 hours, and to where I am now, 2 test, one ran for 7.5 hours, the second 9 hours. The second could have ran forever, but as far as I'm concerned, it had an error in the first test, so there is a problem. My temps at stock were 31 idle, 38 load, now w/the volt increase they are 33-34 idle, 44 load (aerogate sensor) 47 load (mbm5, however asus p4p800 reporting the temp, which is here there and everywhere). My load is pushing my limit on temp. My question is this, how much further should I go? I'm not stable, but realistically, I am. I have beening playing non stop games with no problems, video editing, and everything else with no crashes. I feel that prime 95 has pushed past limits that my computer will never see besides for this app, and I think that I am "stable" as far as what I do is concerned. I know that sounds a little like I'm just trying justifying my resluts, but I think this is valid. Any opinions? As far as I've read 1.7 vcore is near the end of what should be used. I don't want to push that more. Also, I run the 3rd and the 4th test in prime 95, and my temp goes from 34 to maybe 35.5, I hear people saying the temps get very hot. I'm just wondering if my load temps are all due to the gpu, I have a vga silencer on it though.. Let me know.

If playing games is the heaviest load your computer going to have and you have no problem playing them, then forget about Prime95. Keep going until it's not stable while you are playing those games.

read the manual that comes with p95, to sum it up your system is not 100% stable but it might not affect you at all with the programs that you run, i personally wouldnt have anything but 100% stability but its down to the individual, i had a system previously that would fail p95 after a few mins sometimes an hour, most stuff would run ok but i would get random lockups errors, dload the demo of nfsu and run that if your system can handle that for over half an hour then you should be alright. Q-TEC 550 Watt PSU MSI VIA KT4AV-L 2800+ Barton 512 DDR333 GeForce Fx5200 128Mb Aero 7 Lite 80Gb Samsung ATA133 HDD 120Gb WD ATA100 HDD LiteOn LDW-851S LiteOn LTR-52246S