Quote (HyphyIll @ May 20 2017 06:41pm)
If you spend a few minutes googling vishera and prime 95 you'll see it's a common problem. That's a fact of life.
Aida, OCCT and other less intensive stressers are perfectly fine for simulating maximum workload.
62C is your max core, 70C is your max socket.
Again, the issue seems to be with the chip or architectures shortcomings to not be able to perform small FFT's without crapping the bed. I wouldn't blame p95 just because bulldozer is a housefire poo in the loo arch.
You can't define a maximum workload as anything less than crunching very efficient factoring algorithms on every single thread simultaneously, if you do, you concede the right to use the word 'maximum'. Prime95 isn't forcing the cpu to operate out of spec or crash, it's simply asking it to do math, the thing it is designed to do. A lot of very difficult math very fast, sure, but the fault is with the chip if it fails that task.
Basically every real world scenario that maxes out the cpu to 100% is going to give the transistors valuable microseconds to dissipate heat and such as the cpu waits on i/o requests and instructions, so it's going to be much less taxing than something like prime, but how do you define what a maximum workload is besides worst case utilization?
This post was edited by DCSS on May 20 2017 04:58pm