Quote Originally Posted by Dua|ist View Post
Linpack is good at CPU stability checking because of it's highly optimized code using all of the CPU's available resources/modules, however, it doesn't put same heavy load at memory and northbridge, no matter how much memory it consumes. Because of that Linpack often passes OK where Prime/OCCT (and eventually MemTest) fail due to RAM/NB instability.
This is why I've only been using IBT on low priority to test my CPU, then I use Prime/Memtest to verify NB/Memory stability.