I've recently been concerned by the potential of damage and degradation from heavily overclocked and overvolted CPUs being subjected to multi hour stress tests. My 2500k has seen serious degradation over time, and requires a lot more vCore to run at a far lower clock. I personally try to go as high as my CPU possibly can, but the combination of high voltages and high temps are deadly.
Is there are more ideal way to stress test a CPU? Is there such thing as an effective stress test without pushing temps very high? For example, if I use prime95 and I set FFT size bounds to not have any of the small FFTs, I'll generate far less heat, but will I still be running a useful stress test?
Is there are more ideal way to stress test a CPU? Is there such thing as an effective stress test without pushing temps very high? For example, if I use prime95 and I set FFT size bounds to not have any of the small FFTs, I'll generate far less heat, but will I still be running a useful stress test?