Benchmarking heat - utterly pointless?

[Icet]

A lot of people are saying the Haswell is a poor overclocker and too hot. Granted, there's articles stating that when benchmarking, the CPU is running at near 100 degrees when overclocked, but surely benchmarking means absolutely nothing other than a stability test?

http://youtu.be/L-NeBKtl6l0?t=14m30s

Video here shows the 4770 clocked at 4.9ghz with 30 minutes of intensive gaming simulated, and it only runs at 60 degrees.

 

[setter]

True, games wont generate anywhere near the temps of benching/stress testing. But i guess people are a little annoyed that once again intel have cheaped out and not used solder between the die and the ihs. The hardcore benchers will probably be delidding theirs anyway.

 

[Buckster]

false assumption IMO

my Ivy is similarly "hot" - gaming yes doesn't get hot at all

but if you do any video encoding/transcoding whatever - with something like Handbrake then watch out - basically any video encoding that uses AVX. With programs such as this my temps are very close to these "hot benchmarks" - not quite as hot but prob within 5C or less

do I do more gaming than video encoding ? of course

do I want to faff about changing profiles for different usage ? no

thats why I stick to 4.5 - which is a good compromise of heat and reasonable overclock

 

[LambChop]

A lot of people are saying the Haswell is a poor overclocker and too hot. Granted, there's articles stating that when benchmarking, the CPU is running at near 100 degrees when overclocked, but surely benchmarking means absolutely nothing other than a stability test?

http://youtu.be/L-NeBKtl6l0?t=14m30s

Video here shows the 4770 clocked at 4.9ghz with 30 minutes of intensive gaming simulated, and it only runs at 60 degrees.

No!!! that cant be right, it must be like a gtx 480, it must be too hot and cant possibly be worth buying.

lol

 

[Buckster]

I'm happy if under 86C or so

after all - unless you are 95C and above - the number is just a number - does it really matter ? no

decrease life etc etc etc ? maybe - but I bet nowhere near to under the use you'll get from the CPU - do you need your CPU to last 10 years ?

480 is a good example - mine sat regularly in games at 90+C ? was it an issue ? no. was it stable ? yes.

only negative - it heated my room up

you won't get that problem with Ivy/Haswell as unlike the 480 - they're using less power than their predecssors - they just get hot