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My 5820k CPU is overclocked to 4.2 GHz, but I've never done any stresstest so far on this clock frequency and it's worked perfectly fine.
Though of course that's not so strange as I'm still well within the safe limits, there are people who overclock this unit to 4.5 GHZ, or even more.
But at this lighter overclock on this CPU model you seem to do fine without a stresstest.
However, now I want to try and can get my CPU up to 4.3 or even 4.4 GHz. Then people normally would do stresstests to see if the clock is stable or it gives a bluescreen.
But is this really needed in my case?
Stresstests really maxes the CPU usage, but that usage is hardly a realistic one? If the CPU fails at 4.5 GHz with 100% usage, then it shows that it can't handle it at 100% usage, but what about the usage at 75% (or how to put it).
Obviously there are people whose using habits really pushes the CPU a lot, and then a stresstest is a good guidance.
But my usage is not heavy - my usage is running music software with high polyphony = multitask deluxe. It needs to do a ton of tasks at the same time, but the tasks are not heavy.
So the CPU needs to work at a fast frequency and have many cores, but it doesn't use the CPU at a very large amount.
I can easily even run a CPU heavy game at the same time as the music program at its fullest and the performance in the music program won't drop (I've tried it, I runned Space Engineers while maximizing the music program right before I get underruns in the music programs - no difference with or without the game running).
My point is, I'll probably never reach the heavy usage that is near the usage at a stresstest - so then I could overclock it to 4.4 GHz, and if it works then it should be fine? If I would sometime get a bluescreen against all odds, then I'm aware of that and may adjust the overclock settings to more stable ones.
But it feels like there is no point in losing CPU speed at 50-75% usage only because the overclock didn't work at 100% if I'll never reach close to 100% usage.
I may however be completely wrong as I'm no expert, but that's why I'm asking
My 5820k CPU is overclocked to 4.2 GHz, but I've never done any stresstest so far on this clock frequency and it's worked perfectly fine.
Though of course that's not so strange as I'm still well within the safe limits, there are people who overclock this unit to 4.5 GHZ, or even more.
But at this lighter overclock on this CPU model you seem to do fine without a stresstest.
However, now I want to try and can get my CPU up to 4.3 or even 4.4 GHz. Then people normally would do stresstests to see if the clock is stable or it gives a bluescreen.
But is this really needed in my case?
Stresstests really maxes the CPU usage, but that usage is hardly a realistic one? If the CPU fails at 4.5 GHz with 100% usage, then it shows that it can't handle it at 100% usage, but what about the usage at 75% (or how to put it).
Obviously there are people whose using habits really pushes the CPU a lot, and then a stresstest is a good guidance.
But my usage is not heavy - my usage is running music software with high polyphony = multitask deluxe. It needs to do a ton of tasks at the same time, but the tasks are not heavy.
So the CPU needs to work at a fast frequency and have many cores, but it doesn't use the CPU at a very large amount.
I can easily even run a CPU heavy game at the same time as the music program at its fullest and the performance in the music program won't drop (I've tried it, I runned Space Engineers while maximizing the music program right before I get underruns in the music programs - no difference with or without the game running).
My point is, I'll probably never reach the heavy usage that is near the usage at a stresstest - so then I could overclock it to 4.4 GHz, and if it works then it should be fine? If I would sometime get a bluescreen against all odds, then I'm aware of that and may adjust the overclock settings to more stable ones.
But it feels like there is no point in losing CPU speed at 50-75% usage only because the overclock didn't work at 100% if I'll never reach close to 100% usage.
I may however be completely wrong as I'm no expert, but that's why I'm asking
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