Yes because people realised Prime was the worst program/app to use to stress test your CPU. Just a power virus. There are actual programs designed to stress test such as AIDA 64 which stress all various parts of the CPU. Only thing left is handling the GPU side of things which will give you a good idea if your setup is gaming stable which usually Heaven is a good shout as a starting point.
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Purchased the Binned 7700k and now getting game crashed
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Yes because people realised Prime was the worst program/app to use to stress test your CPU. Just a power virus. There are actual programs designed to stress test such as AIDA 64 which stress all various parts of the CPU. Only thing left is handling the GPU side of things which will give you a good idea if your setup is gaming stable which usually Heaven is a good shout as a starting point.
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That's because AIDA, although a valuable stress test to have in ones routine (for uncore especially), isn't all that conclusive. One to two hours of Real Bench is more telling...
Xeon's can run Prime95 fine, they need to be able to because Intel don't sell processors to high tech and scientific industries with fine print stating that they can only run such and such loads on them.
The trouble Prime95 has is that high end processors are being sold which are either prone to overheating or unstable when running heavy loads, why hold back clock speeds when nobody really cares about supreme stability anyway?
The whole power virus argument is basically justification for being sold hardware that are limited to predetermined loads.
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Run a memory stress test also.
Just put VCCIO/SA to auto and up Vcore to 1.36 / 1.376, re-run game test.
Alternatively, using your original settings, set the the processor to 4.8Ghz and re test to understand whether 4.8 is crash free. Use this as a baseline and work up - i suspect you require more vcore.
This all assumes you don't have a software bug of some sort.
Alternatively, using your original settings, set the the processor to 4.8Ghz and re test to understand whether 4.8 is crash free. Use this as a baseline and work up - i suspect you require more vcore.
This all assumes you don't have a software bug of some sort.
Overall I'm happy, I've got a stable 5.0 now with good temps. Just took a bit of tweaking to get there. That is to be expected. The only error was on me in assuming benchmarking/stress testing tools were all I needed.
Given I've still got good temps I may even try to push it to 5.1, if I'm using 1.39 to get the 5.0 do you reckon I have enough headroom to give it a shot?
You should try 5.1 at that voltage. P95 stability at 5.2 seems extremely difficult to achieve on most 7700ks despite the voltage used, unless you've got a golden sample (e.g. 5Ghz at <1.3v)
I'm 5.1 at 1.376v:
Just makes me even happier with my purchase.