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How important do you consider CPU stress testing to be?

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November 29, 2013 4:12:17 PM

Just want to get everyone's opinion on this.

I used to be for stress testing however after getting a relatively average 4770k in terms of absolute stability under synthetic benchmarks have switched over to real world testing. By OCCT standards, I'm in for a struggle to get 4.2ghz with 4.1 being a more realistic achievement but for real world tests in gaming and general productivity suites i can quite easily achieve 4.5ghz.

Do you regard stress testing to be important in determining your overclock? I only see it as setting a guideline but otherwise diminishing the maximum possible performance and efficiency I can gain in the real world, since really, synthetics achieve a CPU load you will NEVER see in typical usage. I do regard them as important for testing stock clocks on a new unit to ensure its up to specification/not defective though.

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a b K Overclocking
November 29, 2013 4:19:55 PM

Stress test is to determine how stable your system is whether it's running at stock clocks or oc.
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