LiquidNitrogen Posted February 8, 2010 Posted February 8, 2010 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. Quote
Massman Posted February 8, 2010 Posted February 8, 2010 Stable enough to give an output score. Nothing more. Quote
Monstru Posted February 8, 2010 Posted February 8, 2010 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). Quote
knopflerbruce Posted February 8, 2010 Posted February 8, 2010 More stability than the benchmark needs would be wasting CPU MHz:D Quote
Hyperhorn Posted February 8, 2010 Posted February 8, 2010 More stability than the benchmark needs would be ...perfect for lame backup games. Quote
LiquidNitrogen Posted February 10, 2010 Author Posted February 10, 2010 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. Quote
Massman Posted February 10, 2010 Posted February 10, 2010 My daily system = my laptop. All other desktop hardware are to overclock and bench. Quote
knopflerbruce Posted February 10, 2010 Posted February 10, 2010 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 Quote
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