The argument for and against stability testing will go on forever. To each their own.
You're absolutely right.
The argument for and against stability testing will go on forever. To each their own.
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I have never used linpac/linx or whatever the current utility is. When initial build is done, 1 hour OCCT and I put the box to crunching.
The key as Mike has found out is moderate overclocks. Long term it will beat any cutting edge box.
I ran my farm this way long before it was "cool" to run long term stability tests. It is an old school "proven" method.
My boxes do not BSOD/stall/lockup/shut down, they just reliably crunch. The only time my boxes don't produce is either power outage or project issues.
YMMV but it works.
FAH and gpu's are the same...moderation and NO problems.
Mike (RAMMIE), which rig and what specs? I might take you up on your offer. I will match it give it a go for a week
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OCCT linpack? that would be the same than linx or ordinary linpack,am i right?
1 hour occt is relatively equal to testing 75 runs linpack,i believe to know
we all know that average overclock,that will crunch forever. but some of us, are tempted, to bring higher clocks to crunch, because they lag rigs. for this people, a stability tester has its use. otherwise your right, why loosing crunching time?
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Plain old "old school" OCCT. NO linpac or whatever.
But, marginal overclocks that yield bad or poor work is not acceptable and defeats the purposes of crunching
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I just posted in another thread on this very topic. A very stable 3.8 ghz will give you better results than a semi-stable 4.0. I've found that testing with LinX to be the quickest way to verify stability, with a 25x cycle.
One thing I disagree with is the need for water on an overclocked i7. Obviously, water will give better temps, but high end air is certainly appropriate until you start bumping up the vcore over 1.35v.
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Well erocker my friend, you and I are what some folk call oldschool. There's lots of people here that think OCCT is way too strict and if it does what they normally do, it's stable, even if it crashes when they try to run the stress testing programs.