Core C6 State - Likely to cause problems?

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Put simply, ran a load of stress testing earlier today, all nice and stable with enough headroom in temperatures from the limit. This was with most of the power saving features turned back on.

.... Except Core C6 state. It appears I forgot this one when enabling them again.

I have a rough idea of what it is and what it does, question is, with it now enabled, have I just subjected myself to another round of stress testing?
 
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C6 is a power saving state. Just a very deep "sleep" like C3. it lowers the VCC of the ram even lower than C3 or C4. It does not cause any means for retesting for the most part because it has absolutely no effect on C0 (running state). But may cause some issues when the computer goes in and out of sleep, because of the overclock. But your MOBO is quite strong and I would be hard pressed to believe that enabling C6 would cause any issue with sleep. But like I said. It has no bearing on the running OS.
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C6 is a power saving state. Just a very deep "sleep" like C3. it lowers the VCC of the ram even lower than C3 or C4. It does not cause any means for retesting for the most part because it has absolutely no effect on C0 (running state). But may cause some issues when the computer goes in and out of sleep, because of the overclock. But your MOBO is quite strong and I would be hard pressed to believe that enabling C6 would cause any issue with sleep. But like I said. It has no bearing on the running OS.
 
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Actually, you CAN have issues coming OUT of the C6/C7 power state if you have a Haswell (4th gen) CPU and your Power Supply doesn't support that feature properly.

If your computer doesn't CRASH coming out of the low power state then you have nothing to worry about. If it DOES now, then disable that power state.

STRESS TESTING is completely pointless though when discussing C6 since you would pop out of the low power state anyway to start it.
 
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Actually, putting it to sleep and pulling it out is about all the stress testing you can do! (if you call that stress testing)... But as we both said, C0 is completely unaffected by C6. And your only issue may arise on pulling it out/in to sleep.
 
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Awesome! Much thanks to the both of you.
It's certainly pulled out of sleep, so that saves me a headache.

I'm now left in the inherently awkward situation of having to choose between you for Best Answer. I have been in a similar dilemma before, allbeit different circumstances, and my right cheek didn't thank me for it.

 
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I thank you much :) and I'm glad we could help!
 
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