After running numerous orthos runs on my E8400 trying to find stable settings, imo, it is difficult to discern variability from degradation if relying on orthos runs less than 12 hours. While I have no doubt in lieu of some dead chips, that degradation is occurring in some, I am wondering if some of the reports at least with more moderate voltages are seeing variability, like I saw, and not degradation. Examples:
Testing 4.05, 1.31875v bios
Run 1 = orthos shut self off at 10 hours (logs).
Run 2 = orthos fatal error message at 3 hours.
Run 3 = orthos system rebooted 11 hours.
1.3325v bios got same variability in runs.
1.3375v bios 2 runs at 14hrs+ stable
Testing 4.1,
below 1.3375v get stop messages
1.3375v bios orthos system reboot 10 hrs 50 mins
1.34375v bios orthos orthos shut down 6 hrs
1.35625v bios system reboot at ~ 5 hours, second run 9 hours then reboot while surfing
1.3625v bios 1 run stable 14hr+, second run commencing.
I am not saying you need 14 hrs of orthos to get a stable enough computer to run games, general usage etc. In fact, with this peculiar chip, above 4 ghz there may be a range of volts at given mhz where the machine is perfectly usable, but just cant get repeatable orthos runs.
My point is, some reports of degradation (not all) may be the same bizarre variability that I witnessed using orthos runs shorter than 12 hours at the voltage range (at given mhz) where you stop getting stop message and instead getting shutdowns, etc, which seen to occur at random times, instead of increasing long runs as voltage increases. And I am wondering, if to prove degradation, runs of 12 hours or more are needed. (dead chips and things like use to boot at 1.2v, now wont boot at 1.25, aside)
I am not expecting degradation at the VID limit, which will be my 24/7 below, but I will check in time and see.
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks