Quote Originally Posted by BeepBeep2 View Post
There are way too many factors to define stable...
You aren't providing any revelations here when it comes to stress tests not proving stability. If you start over from the start of this thread, you'll see quite quickly that I early on was mandating a minimal degree of stability testing that most people refused to do. You'll also find us all collectively bickering about how to define stable. There is no reasonable method of testing that I can mandate here that actually proves absolute stability. That also isn't the point.

What I require now is a compromise between what I had originally intended to be the bare minimum proof (24 hours) since an empty chart is wholly useless. What we've got now is a good indicator of "some reasonable degree of stability with some validation via testing having been performed". The entire point of making people test is not to define settings that are known to be 100% rock solid but rather it is to weed out the extremely poor quality of what normally passes for "stable" in a post-your-clocks thread like this, which is that someone says it is with absolutely no formal bar established nor proof required.

Unless your argument is we shouldn't require as good of information as we've got now, you don't really have much of a point to make about what we've done here. The bar has been raised to a minimum level where we have a minimum quality to our results not found elsewhere. Even as it stands, you'll note that half of all people STILL can't be bothered to do even such minimal testing. Mandating perfectly accurate data from users is absolutely and utterly impractical.

Any individual contributor is welcome to provide any superior amount of testing and more accurate temps or voltages they wish. It's also rather insulting to myself and others considering the amount of work we've all put into making this information an order of magnitude more organized, standardized, and useful than what is normally seen in efforts like this. I'm not going to apologize for the excellent work done by members of this board for the sole purpose of benefiting others like yourself.