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Whats the point of stress tests when all you do is game? (overclocking)

Personally, I just pick a mild overclock with minimum setting changes required. If it's stable in games, good enough for me :)

6700K @ 4.4ghz
 
A combination of factors but with my 9900k and 1080Ti at 1440p I haven't bothered going back to the 5Ghz overclock that I had. For what I use the PC for everything seems fine with the default clocks. Perhaps this is the first time in many many years that I haven't bothered with an overclock as a default setting.
 
If it works for you then that's great.
Over the years I have found that a "stable" gaming clock can become unstable as games get more demanding and I upgrade gpu putting more stress on the cpu to keep up. This can also manifest itself as being a problem to only one game. Making it seem like its the game that is broke.

At the moment I can run Aida and Realbench for hours at 1.25v, this is also good enough for 99% my games. However, black ops 4 crashes every now and again. To make this game stable I need 1.32v. Quite the jump.
 
Sc00p007 said:
If it works for you then that's great.
Over the years I have found that a "stable" gaming clock can become unstable as games get more demanding and I upgrade gpu putting more stress on the cpu to keep up. This can also manifest itself as being a problem to only one game. Making it seem like its the game that is broke.

At the moment I can run Aida and Realbench for hours at 1.25v, this is also good enough for 99% my games. However, black ops 4 crashes every now and again. To make this game stable I need 1.32v. Quite the jump.
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Exactly what happened to me and the 1.32v is the same for me. Game which is Ghost Recon Wildlands would crash with anything lower. It will run XTU stress test but crash in game.
 
My 4770k started to crash recently it only does 4300mhz so i need it and it was simply rebooting in games. Turned it down to 4.0 and it rebooted once which was less than the 3 in one hour. But after a bit i went back and disabled Hyperthreading set it to 4c 4t 4300mhz and not a crash since.

Either degration or windows security and Intel patches causing my OC to fail? But hey its good enough the main thing is she still runs at 4300mhz after four years nearly five years now. :D
 
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Either degration or windows security and Intel patches causing my OC to fail?
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Definitely the former. Especially if the CPU is overclocked. Even at the rated voltage the chip will gradually start to degrade. So under volting to get stock speeds to work will prolong its life. I mean eventually you need more and more volts to get the same performance again.

my 4770k was similar. It sat on 4.4 OC very happily at day 1 then I think i dialled the overclock down to 4.1GHz before I got rid off the whole lot with the same volts. That’s over the course of 6yrs. I do remember on a few occasions I had to go into the BIOS to tweak OC and Volts as I had random crashes in windows and using photoshop etc. But the ram was rock solid tho.
 
Because at the end of the day if your CPU is not tested to be stable it could be making errors calculating things like physics in a game which might have a negative impact on your gaming experience from time to time but you'll just dismiss it as a bug in the game, the game doesn't necessarily have to do a hard crash or throw up an error message for underlying problems to be present.
 
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If you want to live on the edge and wonder if your next big run on that next big game will lockup or reboot and the restart of windows will bsod for a corrupt dll or somesuch the by all means stress testing means nothing. Gaming might not be as stressful as a synthetic load but at some point it might call on the cpu or memory subsystem to do something that would normally be ok if everything was fed the proper volts etc.. and not so when unstable..and crash. Testing the system is about a 24-48hr task and then you set it and go from then. Why does everyone want a 5 minute oc these days? I don't even overclock anymore but have done everything from big heatsinks (presently use oversize Noctuas etc.. for quiet computing) to actual custom water in the early 2000s, LN2 runs and phase change etc..and it never bothered me to take time to test stuff.
 
star wars fallen order seems a solid game to use to test i've been finding the last couple weeks

the stress apps are the sledgehammer, games and day to day desktop use are the fine tuning tools is the way I see it

If I am passing all stress tests and all games are running fine but i'll get 1 lockup every say 72 hours on a game i'll +1 on the voltage etc until there's no crashes going on at all

I've had occt real bench prime ibt heaven firestrike and even prime and furmark at same time passes only for a game to cause a lockup but i've also had game stable fail stress

why a combination of both and long drawn out fine tuning is required
 
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It’s more of a hobby (for many people)
I used to stress test individusl components but you can stress test all you like for hours/days but then play a game and it’ll crash.
That’s what i found anyway with a couple of games in the past. Coaster planet with a big park would kick the crap out of cpu and gpu, way more than any stress test did. It proved a gpu memory clock was slightly too high and slso sent my cpu to 91c. It was fine, if a bit warm
 
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