New Linpack Stress Test Released

[Jamin280672]

If the overclock isn't 100% stable, you'll run into trouble over time. App and game crashes, data corruption, and more.

It's better to spend a day or two to be certain the system is stable and to forget about it.

I learned it in the hard way. My 1st i7-965 build kept corrupting the OS files every few months.

I totally agree, non of this couple of hours of AIDA64 stress test......oh it must be stable because it passed that, mine can pass that in its sleep, I make sure mine is stable enough for rocket design lol, and for the very reasons you stated above.

 

[Parsley]

If that's what works for you then great, ultimately it doesn't really matter of course. I can't say I've ever had problems over time or had issues with a corrupt OS though. I ran my 4770k at 4.5 then 4.7 (delidded and under water) for years making stable to a level I was happy with using Realbench, Prime 26.6 and AIDA64. If it crashed I just nudged the voltage up slightly during the first few days of use and it didn't make a peep again.

For me, I'm happier avoiding unnecessary voltages and heat over the lifetime of the processor. Of course the argument there is do I even need to overclock at all in that case .

 

[Regeneration]

Final version is out... even better then before.

 

[Regeneration]

If anyone still care... this release was updated to fix a crash on AMD Ryzen 5000 processors.