Is OCCT Linpack testing a good measure of stability?

[Wampanoag]

I am using Linpack testing in OCCT's put together to stress my CPU. I am doing a 10 minute test, but am this long sufficient and am Linpack (based on Intel Burn Test) a superior means of judging constancy. I too utilize the linpack test in OCCT by the side of with the OCCT stress test. I frequently work with the Linpack test for 1 hour instantly and so far have not had several issues from an over clock that I did not cause.

[Deepest BLUE]

A group of people say that IBU (Linpack) puts redundant stress on your apparatus. Under customary create use of, your system would by no means be open to the elements to those conditions. This means that if you pass Linpack, your system is for certain superior, but that if you fail it, your system might still be superior adequate for customary utilize. A group of people still have a preference on working prime95 for a longer period to additional precisely guage constancy.

[desilva]

I imagine when I am happy with my over clock, I determine to do a longer 1 hour test. I keep in mind hearing although those 10 minutes of Linpack was equivalent to a small number of hours of Prime95. Several Linpack test be supposed to be advanced. I would like to say you are superior. The OCCT was an enormous program previous to it used Linpack so I do not know why it would modify at present. I vote for LinX.

[Common]

Nothing is a superior calculate for constancy than your daily usage of your system. Do the things you essentially do with it. Play games, work a number of apps, encode some movies, do your customary work and if you are having no troubles or presentation problem with it than it means it is steady. There is no such submission in the real world that determines to stress your CPU that much as those stress tests for a long interlude of time.

[Abbie]

The BTW, if several of these tests fail there is a difficulty and the system determine to expire on you haphazardly even if you have productively played games for 3 days straight on without a crash. It determine to expire at an extremely in-opportune moment (similar to that special scene in the movie or presently previous to you go to save that doc you were running on). The thing regarding systems is that they behave in a deterministic fashion: you pass similar information; it determines to give you similar results. If the results are dissimilar once in a million times, your system is a fail, and you necessitate going back and figuring which constituent (CPU, memory, PSU, NB etc.) has failed you.

[Common]

If it would origin system crashes then you would be familiar with something is incorrect and that your system is not steady and would go back to tweaking. You are able to in addition have system crashes at the same time as prime95, linx, IBT or OCCT is working. I have by no means heard of a bad OC that origin corrupted files. If it is not steady your daily usage would give the signals for its unsteadiness. I have ran the entire these tests day and night then started to locate it attractive humorous when I saw couple of chips even failing these tests at stock settings even though causing no troubles with every day usage for years.

[Felix46]

It the entire depends on how rapidly you desire to locate out if there is unsteadiness in the system. If it requirements playing games, encoding a video at the same time as watching a movie, editing a photo or video and writing a document and browsing the net, it determine to take you a couple of days to shape if that BLCK jump from 160 to 162 is constant or not. With LinX, characteristically it dies within 1-2 hours if the system is not steady.