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My 4770K won't go higher then 4.2 to 4.3GHZ without blue screening.......![]()
You don't care so you whitewash the unreliability aspect but I find it a good guide.
I'm not really keen on the odd game crash or system crash or other program issue by choking the processor of the voltage it needs so I'm happy to go with stable for a long stress test with several programs plus a notch.
With system stability vs bragging rights I go for the one that keeps me and the computer happy.
I don't 'whitewash' reliability.
I run a 4.5Ghz 4770k with 1.2Volts and have not run a single stress test. It's also never crashed in any OS, Encode or game usage.
So why would I need to stress test, and even if I did, and it crashed - Why should I care? I don't see the point of dialling back an OC that crashed with an AVX stress test when for 100% of my real world usage it will never happen.
because if its not even stress test stable - the CPU could be doing error correction and therefore could be slower than a lower overclock
do you have any WHEA errors in your Windows logs ? any error correction means the CPU has to re-do the calc it had tried to perform - therefore can be slower
PCZ this thread and the 5GHZ one above it are ruined/off topic due to BS from peeps who claim stressing is not needed as they are too scared to try as they cannot pass on their unstable PC's.
So I am done reading both threads, pity as I was interested in both OP's findings but not reading BS.
Go troll elsewhere.
Nobody cares that you ran your pc for 365 days under a stress test and it's not crashed.
Stress tests are not needed, period.
You are the troll talking crap in the OP's thread, adding you to ignore as all you do on this forum is talk crap from what I have read of you here.
you cant stresstest haswell or they would melt![]()