Just a quick question. For these "extreme overclocked" systems you see at the top of the rankings, how stable and durable are they? Are they just some form of "peak burst" that lasts just long enough to register on the benchmarking application, or are some of these disembodied machines actually able to be used while throttled so high?

 

Just wondering. Thanks in advance for any replies.

Stable enough to give an output score. Nothing more.

And when that output score comes from WPrime 32M or 3DMark Vantage, the system is pretty stable for those speeds, but only in that specific conditions (LN2, DICE, phase change, etc).

More stability than the benchmark needs would be wasting CPU MHz:D

More stability than the benchmark needs would be

...perfect for lame backup games.

More stability than the benchmark needs would be wasting CPU MHz:D

 

Very funny

 

So do NONE of you try to build a system that is significantly faster for your own use? Or has your own use of the overclocked systems spiraled down to "overclocking only?"

 

I'd love to see some of my chess programs on an 8-core box cranking out about 50,000,000 positions/second on a 4.5 GHz clock. I know 4.5 GHz is too low for you guys, but heck, I'm fairly easy to please I guess.

 

My daily system = my laptop. All other desktop hardware are to overclock and bench.

Very funny

 

So do NONE of you try to build a system that is significantly faster for your own use? Or has your own use of the overclocked systems spiraled down to "overclocking only?"

 

I'd love to see some of my chess programs on an 8-core box cranking out about 50,000,000 positions/second on a 4.5 GHz clock. I know 4.5 GHz is too low for you guys, but heck, I'm fairly easy to please I guess.

 

 

Usually my 24/7-rigs are made of retired overclocking parts. Yes, I also OC for 24/7 usage of course), but I NEVER benchmark my 24/7 systems, untweaked, low clocks etc... feels useless for me:p