Perhaps unnessary stress tests on quad....

[MumboJumbo]

Ok then this is only a theory i was thinking of while very tired at 4am last night. So dont eat my balls or anything and listern to it first before just going down the whole :O:O:O 24hour prime or not stable thing.

Lots of people are going round saying ooo dont need quads the games dont even use all four cores. They say they dont even fully use duel cores yet.

Its true. How oftern does a Gamer use all 4 cores in a game??

So that made me think. Well C2ds are cooler then Q2ds because they use 2 cores instead of 4. But if a quad core is really only using 2 as well... why do you not stress test the temperatures on 2 cores? or perhaps 3?

It is never going to run at the heat it does when there are 4 core runing unless your using all 4 cores and you wont really be.


Was just my thinking that you could all be having higher overclocks if you stress tested it on what your using. After all, if the games you play arn't made to use 4 cores there is no way your going to be stressing the other 2 cores out much at all. Therefore your sloiwing your clocks down for no reason.


Just a thought for you guys thats all

 

[Jokester]

Then in the middle of a hot summer next year, playing a new game that does use all 4 cores to a large amount your PC crashes.

Jokester

 

[Justintime]

Then in the middle of a hot summer next year, playing a new game that does use all 4 cores to a large amount your PC crashes.

Jokester

What he said

 

[MumboJumbo]

Then in the middle of a hot summer next year, playing a new game that does use all 4 cores to a large amount your PC crashes.

Jokester

Of corse im not stupid enough to stress test it on 2 when i know the game uses all 4. Please dont try pick holes in what i said by saying things like that.


How long have Quad cores been out? The whole time not all 4 cores have been being used.

Obiously dont stress test it on 2 if you are using more then 2 but people havn't been. This is what im trying to say that you are running a slower overclock then you could be for the amount of cores youve been using.


Remember this is for gamers not encoders. I think i have a valid point.


And i think that this should totaly resolve the C2d vs Q2d arguement.


Think aboutit!!! people said ooo get a C2d and clock it faster because you dont need the 4 cores. Well why not overclock the quad core to the same when you know you wont use all 4 cores and it wont run that hot???

That means that there is no reason not to have a quad core. Is this not a good point that you could still overclock it to the same as the c2d equviliant because games wernt using the 4 cores to overheat it and throttle it.

 

[Jokester]

But the difference between a Prime stable and a game stable PC is typically only 100-200MHz, the difference in performance isn't big enough to justify in my opinion the potential pain in the **** of suddenly finding yourself with an unstable PC in a year or twos time.

Jokester

 

[BigglesPiP]

I like my overclock stable under any use.

I have 3hrs of Prime95 in Orthos, and 2 hours of OCCT, and I found OCCT to be the harder of the 2.

 

[MumboJumbo]

Would a Q6600 on two cores not clock exacly the same asthe E6600? so you could be able to get 3.7ghz stable if you were running games that dont need 4 cores.

 

[Justintime]

Would a Q6600 on two cores not clock exacly the same asthe E6600? so you could be able to get 3.7ghz stable if you were running games that dont need 4 cores.

Don't work like that, main problem with Quad is heat and no matter what ain't used the 4 cores are still more or less 'on'

 

[sulli]

But the difference between a Prime stable and a game stable PC is typically only 100-200MHz, the difference in performance isn't big enough to justify in my opinion the potential pain in the **** of suddenly finding yourself with an unstable PC in a year or twos time.

Jokester

That man speaks wise words young padawan

 

[MumboJumbo]

lol at padwan.

Aww well lol.

 

[Tom|Nbk]

I like my overclock stable under any use.

I have 3hrs of Prime95 in Orthos, and 2 hours of OCCT, and I found OCCT to be the harder of the 2.

8 hours of Orthos Under Priority 9 to really stress things out here. Check link in sig.