BIONIC a safe stress test?

[Raudi_]

So I actually did some overclocking on my main rig and just started up BIONIC and let it run and found out that my overclock was unstable, which is nice because i don't have to worry about it requesting more voltage then needed and it helps out with something at the same time with out damaging any of my parts in my system.

So is it safe to safe to say that Bionic is the safest stress test around?

[scaryjam823]

I use intel burn test for my cpu overclocking tests.

[Raudi_]

I use intel burn test for my cpu overclocking tests.

I dont see the point when that is an unreleastic load that a CPU will encounter in its life time, and Bionic is more of like if your rendering videos out and doing long gaming sessions.

[scaryjam823]

I dont see the point when that is an unreleastic load that a CPU will encounter in its life time, and Bionic is more of like if your rendering videos out and doing long gaming sessions.

That;s exactly the point, stressing it beyond what it will ever see. Use it to see if you're stable and check the temps. Then use real world usage in combination with data from intel burn test to achieve the stable overclock you want with the temps you want. The whole point of stress testing your system is to make sure everything is working by putting a hard unrealistic load on your components, if it doesn't crash then you know you're stable and if the temps are good during the test you know you have head room.

[Raudi_]

That;s exactly the point, stressing it beyond what it will ever see. Use it to see if you're stable and check the temps. Then use real world usage in combination with data from intel burn test to achieve the stable overclock you want with the temps you want. The whole point of stress testing your system is to make sure everything is working by putting a hard unrealistic load on your components, if it doesn't crash then you know you're stable and if the temps are good during the test you know you have head room.

If thats the case then I could just use the built in stress test from IXTU(Intel Extreme Turning Utility) its safer to use one right from intel

[Whaler_99]

There are various types of stress tests. Those "extreme" ones like intel burn, prime95, etc., which run the system at a max and you know your OC is good and stable, period. Then there is the "working" stress test. Something like BOINC, FAH or such which load your CPU, but not unreasonably. If your OC can survive those, you should be good for most things... just maybe not 100% stable, that something like a prime95 can do...

[tobben]

might just be me but i find it rude to use boinc/folding data as testing material for your possibly unstable overclock, it's bad practice. Might fail and crash the wu resulting in having to send it to another person causing more traffic.. and generally more processing to maintain the system.

 

i wouldn't use real data as overclocking testing grounds, that's why you have your own testing section in in prime 95, you can corrupt it and fail all you want, think you have it in folding and boinc aswell but not sure how good those are..  

[Raudi_]

might just be me but i find it rude to use boinc/folding data as testing material for your possibly unstable overclock, it's bad practice. Might fail and crash the wu resulting in having to send it to another person causing more traffic.. and generally more processing to maintain the system.

 

i wouldn't use real data as overclocking testing grounds, that's why you have your own testing section in in prime 95, you can corrupt it and fail all you want, think you have it in folding and boinc aswell but not sure how good those are..  

I've only had 1 instance where I had a System Crash when Running BIONIC and that was due to my Video Card but I haven't had a bad CPU overclock crash when running BIONIC. 

See and if I ran Prime 95 I should just throw my CPU in the dump because its only gonna kill it. Due to the voltage issue that stress testing Haswell CPU's has