Quote Originally Posted by Falkentyne View Post
Lee,
You were right dead on back during the core 2 days, when you talked about degradation. The Yorkies would experience a little bit of degradation even at lower voltages (like 1.36), sometimes as much as 0.04, and then would stabilize. Which is exactly what you said.
But repeated abuse and linpack and small FFT stress testing only helped make them degrade more, and faster...

I feel that all this 12 hour linpack/prime testing at high voltages does nothing but help degrade the chips...they're going through abuse they really werent meant to withstand ...


I sometimes wonder where common sense has gone.
I would like all of you guys to stop and just think about what your subjecting your chips to when you run these linpack and prime 95 apps for hours on end.
Now you guys know I do DC work and it loads the cpu's to an indicated 100% load and my machines run at 100% load 24/7 for years on end.
All on good air cooling and the maximum temp I will allow a machine to run at is 65C.
The difference in loaded temps between the DC apps and these bench apps is HUGE. These apps are not real world and you are subjecting them to stress that they would never normally see so why do this?
You pay hunndreds of dollars for your cpu and then set out to prove it will do X with these apps and then a few months later wonder why your cpu is degraded?
Run SP32m, in most cases if it will run that then it is stable for almost anything you will use it for in daily life.
End of rant.