Why Overheat your CPU on Purpose?

[ColinLTT]

There are SO MANY options for stress testing, but which is the best? We put not one but TWO systems through the wringer to find out.

 

 

Get HWInfo and GenericLogViewer here: https://www.hwinfo.com/add-ons/

[swimtome]

Why is the intro missing from last few videos?

[ColinLTT]

2 minutes ago, swimtome said:

Why is the intro missing from last few videos?

It's an editorial decision we're trying out. 

[swimtome]

Interesting - dont particularly mind either way although I do miss the editor's 'blurb'. (Maybe that can go in end?)

 

But on-topic this was a great video idea, Thanks!

[ColinLTT]

6 minutes ago, swimtome said:

Interesting - dont particularly mind either way although I do miss the editor's 'blurb'. (Maybe that can go in end?)

 

But on-topic this was a great video idea, Thanks!

The blurb (called a Slogan internally) Is actually written by the writer (in most cases!) 

For this video, it was: Is it getting hot in here? 
 

[Biohazard777]

Nice video (for a change ).

Just one minor complaint, irrelevant really but it did trigger my OCD: that wobbly desk... hah.

[Zyzzyx]

33 minutes ago, ColinLTT said:

It's an editorial decision we're trying out. 

I did not even notice.

[Zyzzyx]

11 minutes ago, Biohazard777 said:

Nice video (for a change ).

Just one minor complaint, irrelevant really but it did trigger my OCD: that wobbly desk... hah.

Thank you for adding absolutely nothing to this conversation.

[poochyena]

I don't understand how the power draw can spike like it does, while the clock speed stays flat. I thought they were directly connected.

 

41 minutes ago, ColinLTT said:

It's an editorial decision we're trying out. 

I like it so much, ty.

Though, kinda hate how I keep skipping too much of the content now, so used to skipping around 10 to 20 seconds.

[NorKris]

My HWinfo64 shows about 10c higher temps than occt (v4.5.1) while Linpacking... 

who do u trust ?  and who got the fakenews'?

[Biohazard777]

2 hours ago, Zyzzyx said:

Thank you for adding absolutely nothing to this conversation.

What is your contribution to this conversation? 

[Velcade]

Shoutout to Prime95

[Luscious]

A lot of these indeed are not real world situations making their use kind of stupid - even for a full custom water setup are you really going to run some synthetic benchmark for 40 minutes that has nothing to do with what you intend to use your system for???

 

I run F@H and for me that's the best indicator for how good (or bad) a cooling and PSU setup performs. I have four GPU's along with my CPU/chipset on EK blocks with roughly a gallon of coolant going through the loop. These feed into 5 chunky 80mm thick alphacool radiators that are cooled by a combined 30 120mm/140mm fans in push/pull. To actually measure the performance I take the WATER temperature right at the point where the last block in the chain (heat source) enters the rad. I use a spare mobo temp header for the connection. I use the built-in Asus cooling controls for the mobo to set up the actual cooling profiles, and a desktop widget to monitor the actual temps. I also use GPU-Z to keep an eye on each GPU with the sensor tab open set to a 2.5 second interval.

 

Power draw is not an issue, since even with all four cards and the CPU at full tilt I'm pulling 1460 watts from the wall which is well within the 1600W spec of my T2 power supply. That stress does regularly include power spikes as well since each of the four cards will pause briefly at the end of each F@H job, something that can be clearly seen in GPU-Z's graphs.

 

Back to those Asus cooling controls - I have two custom profiles set up, a regular one and a summer one. Both regulate fan speed based not on CPU or GPU temps but on water temps, and that's because the water temp will always be lower than your GPU/CPU. The summer one I use when my ambient temps hit 30C which is pretty common where I live. Many cooling solutions would simply fail in those conditions yet I can run my system at full tilt and on 24/7 without a problem.

 

To give you an example, with a 30C room ambient my water temps stay below 52C, my four GPU's average 62C and the hottest core on my CPU is at maybe 70C. The key point here is the D5 pump I use which is rated for 60C max liquid temperature and I am well below that limit. This is also with the fans running in their mid RPM range - you can hear them but they are not at their maximum or overly loud. Since temperature rise is linear in both the ambient and water I would be looking at close to a 40C ambient to really hit the 60C pump limit, which still won't be the case for me as the fans speeds will climb to compensate for that temperature climb likewise. Maybe at 45C ambient my system would hit it's limit and switch off, but at that point it would be too hot for me to be sitting in that room, and it would probably have to be 50C ((122F) outside at that point as well. There are only a 2-3 places on the planet where it ever gets that hot, and you don't see people running balls-to-the-wall desktops there. Ain't gonna happen!!!

 

Modern server systems are expected to work in 45C ambient environments and many boards are validated to run at those extremes. Your typical desktop will never see such punishment, but a well built custom water system can definitely handle a summer room without air conditioning and keep your system running 24/7 with relative quiet.

 

[Littlebigger]

Isnt ist a thing that I could shorten the lifetime of my cpu If I Stresstest it like 48h. Its  maybe not extrem but for example it working now 9 years instead of 10?

[dannytech357]

As a side note, the error with Intel Extreme Tuning seems to indicate that this feature was enabled (in Windows Security > Device Security).

 

 

It's nothing to do with a BIOS feature as suggested in the NUC video, it's a Windows security feature.

[Ubersonic]

"No real world application behaves like that" - The comedy being Prime95 is a real world application, it just has a benchmarking tool built in xD

[Zodiark1593]

For a worst-case scenario full system load, I'd have liked to have seen GPU benchmarks thrown in there as well in combination.

 

Looking at Intel vs AMD temps, with the exception of Prime95, the rest of the temps aren't horribly far apart from AMD's temps. However, the Prime95 temps seem pretty disproportionately high for Intel. I wonder what's going on with Intel's execution units that they're drawing so much power when unchained?

[Tamesh16]

3 hours ago, ColinLTT said:

It's an editorial decision we're trying out. 

I usually skip through the intro and makes me more likely to skip during the video, without the intro I tend to skip much less, so I am glad you are looking into it

[Tamesh16]

5 minutes ago, Ubersonic said:

The comedy being Prime95 is a real world application, it just has a benchmarking tool built in xD

I knew of Prime95 from doing my Asc in Mathematics, but only after I started looking at LTT videos I used it as a benchmark. Its wild that most people don't know its original purpose

[Zyzzyx]

4 hours ago, Biohazard777 said:

What is your contribution to this conversation? 

Feedback on the editorial change they made.

[AnonymousGuy]

IME, OCCT Large is the best at figuring out CPU stability, quickly.  Linpack and P95 don't really work on marginally stable overclocks.

[Biohazard777]

4 hours ago, Zyzzyx said:

Feedback on the editorial change they made.

Much wow. 

[alpha754293]

11 hours ago, ColinLTT said:

There are SO MANY options for stress testing, but which is the best? We put not one but TWO systems through the wringer to find out.

 

 

Get HWInfo and GenericLogViewer here: https://www.hwinfo.com/add-ons/

What settings were you using for the IntelBurnTest? (because the size of the matrix array that it is solving can make a difference in your results)

[alpha754293]

8 hours ago, Luscious said:

A lot of these indeed are not real world situations making their use kind of stupid - even for a full custom water setup are you really going to run some synthetic benchmark for 40 minutes that has nothing to do with what you intend to use your system for???

 

I run F@H and for me that's the best indicator for how good (or bad) a cooling and PSU setup performs. I have four GPU's along with my CPU/chipset on EK blocks with roughly a gallon of coolant going through the loop. These feed into 5 chunky 80mm thick alphacool radiators that are cooled by a combined 30 120mm/140mm fans in push/pull. To actually measure the performance I take the WATER temperature right at the point where the last block in the chain (heat source) enters the rad. I use a spare mobo temp header for the connection. I use the built-in Asus cooling controls for the mobo to set up the actual cooling profiles, and a desktop widget to monitor the actual temps. I also use GPU-Z to keep an eye on each GPU with the sensor tab open set to a 2.5 second interval.

 

Power draw is not an issue, since even with all four cards and the CPU at full tilt I'm pulling 1460 watts from the wall which is well within the 1600W spec of my T2 power supply. That stress does regularly include power spikes as well since each of the four cards will pause briefly at the end of each F@H job, something that can be clearly seen in GPU-Z's graphs.

 

Back to those Asus cooling controls - I have two custom profiles set up, a regular one and a summer one. Both regulate fan speed based not on CPU or GPU temps but on water temps, and that's because the water temp will always be lower than your GPU/CPU. The summer one I use when my ambient temps hit 30C which is pretty common where I live. Many cooling solutions would simply fail in those conditions yet I can run my system at full tilt and on 24/7 without a problem.

 

To give you an example, with a 30C room ambient my water temps stay below 52C, my four GPU's average 62C and the hottest core on my CPU is at maybe 70C. The key point here is the D5 pump I use which is rated for 60C max liquid temperature and I am well below that limit. This is also with the fans running in their mid RPM range - you can hear them but they are not at their maximum or overly loud. Since temperature rise is linear in both the ambient and water I would be looking at close to a 40C ambient to really hit the 60C pump limit, which still won't be the case for me as the fans speeds will climb to compensate for that temperature climb likewise. Maybe at 45C ambient my system would hit it's limit and switch off, but at that point it would be too hot for me to be sitting in that room, and it would probably have to be 50C ((122F) outside at that point as well. There are only a 2-3 places on the planet where it ever gets that hot, and you don't see people running balls-to-the-wall desktops there. Ain't gonna happen!!!

 

Modern server systems are expected to work in 45C ambient environments and many boards are validated to run at those extremes. Your typical desktop will never see such punishment, but a well built custom water system can definitely handle a summer room without air conditioning and keep your system running 24/7 with relative quiet.

 

The problem with using F@H for testing/benchmarking is that the workload varies significantly depending on the work unit that their servers send to your system/component.

Therefore; if you are trying to find out how hot your system gets (e.g. testing whether your thermal management solution is sufficient and efficient) and/or whether your system is stable, the variability with F@H makes a cross-platform comparison like this virtually impossible unless you purposely COPY (and retain a copy) of the work unit data so that you can start up the client with the former command-line tool (rather than with its vastly prettier GUI), which forces F@H to work on the same WU over and and over again.

 

 

7 hours ago, Tamesh16 said:

I knew of Prime95 from doing my Asc in Mathematics, but only after I started looking at LTT videos I used it as a benchmark. Its wild that most people don't know its original purpose

According to the OCED PISA results, it is no secret that the general population of many countries are bad at math. There are some countries where they typically fair a little bit better, but there are also many that fair significantly worse as well.

 

For example, this video mentions that LINPACK solves the linear algebra system Ax=b, but very few people might actually know nor understand that it actually uses the Gaussian solver with partial pivoting to actually perform that solve and there might be even more people who DON'T know that the "rests" in between is actually the system checking the results for the vector, x, by computing the residual, where per the aforementioned linear algebra equation system, Ax=b, Ax-b should equal 0.

But in computer science (and also numerical analysis and matrices), Ax-b does NOT always give you 0, and the value that it returns is called the residual, and you want to try and minimise that residual as much as possible by balancing performance with accuracy/precision.

 

This is the range of results that you can get with the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (on an Asus X570 TUF Gaming Pro WiFi motherboard, with 4x 32 GB DDR4-3200 unbuffered, non-ECC RAM):

 

 

And here is the same test, on an Intel Core i9-12900K on an Asus Z690 Prime-P D4 motherboard, also with 4x 32 GB DDR4-3200 unbuffered, non-ECC RAM:

 

And here is what you can get when you overlay the results between the two platforms over top of each other:

[Zyzzyx]

8 hours ago, Biohazard777 said:

Much wow. 

Here's the thing, you were trying to find something to criticize them, not add to the conversation. What does saying they make bad videos, except for that one do? Unless I'm about to get woooooshed. Also I'm gonna go now this isn't worth either of our time.