Gratz on the work .... always great to have another tool in the box so to speak. But I would like to encourage the community to consider tools that focus on creating an evern bigger heat / load than a;l; the other sythetic tests which produce conditions the CPU will never, ever see in it's useful life.



I guess the point Id like to speak to is related to the tool choices which are more relevant to how we actually use oir PCs. Most synthetic stress tests place a single task load on all threads on a CPU, the likes of which it will never see again. So is the goal to "creat the most severe torture test " ? Ot to create the most suitable test that represents how PC is used ? Yes, in engineering we create factors of safety such that we are absolutely sure than say a cable in a chain engine hoist doesn't break and kill someone, the greater the risk to life, the greater the factor of safety warranted.



But what is the risk here ? That someday under a certain combination of conditions, our PC might crash ? When overclocking, is it worth having my OC limited to say a 4.8 GHz, using LinPack or another stress test when using something real world application based I can easily sustain 5.0 ? To take it to the ridiculous, not many have responsibilities akin to putting NASA astonauts lives at risk because our PC is controlling their navigation and a crash might send them veering off into the sun.



There are many folks who enjoy the challenge of building a PC to run synthetic stress and trying ti do it better than others have done ... and proudly place their name on OC leader boards. But most of us build PCs to run applications. And for my goals, a stress test that tests in a mutitasking environment, using several extremely demanding real world applictaions (ones I actually use) at the same time is a more realistic, and therefore more useful, test mechanism. And yes, I have had 24 hour stable OCs which tested all threads with synthetic loads later fail when using a multitasking applications based benchmark for 40 minutes. If the OC can run apps, can't we be content with that 5.0 ... Do we need to know that we would have to drop to 4.8 cause it generates too much heat under OCCT, IBT, P95 or Linpack ? Relevance ? That's not how I make my living.



Again, not bashing the work ... offer my compliments to it for it in its own right. Just throwing out that for those folks who are out there working on such projects, many of us would welcome some forays into applications based testing, perhaps even suites w/ subsets geared to particular industries .... animation and rendering .... 2D and 3D CAD .... number crunching ... video editing, etc. As I have found int he past, sometimes with a number of threads running different types of tasks, using different modern instruction sets can present a condition which a synthetic might not produce.