A trip I took and still take it seems...
Probably the best read on length of testing with P95 that I guess I have read lately. That statement was made at the last of one post a few posts from the end.
And notice what we are saying. We are telling the OP how long we test for. I scanned back over through the thread and I didn't see anyone saying, "You should test for ___ hours."
I used to "live" in a forum that reeked overclocking. You did not post your overclock unless it was P95 Blend stable for 8 hours and had the CPUz's and other captures to back it up. I had no trouble living with that sort of constraint. H*ll it was a badge of honor to post up an overclock that was pretty darn rock solid. It took considerable effort and skill to push our systems and still stay P95 Blend stable.
I guess the truth of those days was that I learned more about how to really overclock knowing what the gold standard was and gettting there. The standard was high enough to really test our mettle back then.
Over the last few months I have had to get back out my overclocking coveralls. These dang FX-xxxx heat and power mongers are pushing my skills again. It has become a work with some finesse and not a sledge-hammer in some of my testing to get to stable. I grabbed up my sledge-hammer a few months ago on my FX-8350 and thought I had ruined my good piece of silicon. Spent two days testing before I had to move back to my gold-standard CHV board to find my freeken way again. Hehehe. That was a trip.
That trip reminded me of just what it is I "do consider" stable. I remembered my own old gold standards of stability and it is sure higher than most use today. I ran smack, face-on into where was I stable? It takes more than the 2 hours we consider stable here in the AMD CPU Forums. My mind was not stable until I got my rig stable again by the standards I had used for a long time. That coming to an understanding of myself was a revelation unto itself.
I can live with the AMD CPU Forum idea that 2 hours of P95 Blend is enough. Probably is for just a gamer. I found I still had higher standards that were just built-in. I guess over my previous years of overclocking; my standards had become built-in to my psyche. Like I said it was a revelation to come full circle to stare my standards squarely in the face.
I am probably older than most think that I am. I can remember 8 or 9 years ago when I used to really push the Pee out of boards and benched for a team all the time, day in and day out that I was then a couple of decades older than the ones taking up the overclocking habit. Now more time has passed. Overclocking now is considered a 'right' and not a "privilege". Back in the old days of overclocking forums where I stayed, you did not just sail in and post up "how do I overclock my computer". You would have been laughed out of the forum. You knew to do your homework first. Learn the terminology. Practice a few days so the terms had revelance to your thinking. Practice until moving around in the bios made some sense. Then you posted up that you were 'hung' at X speed and overclocking school began. Those were some days for sure. That is where and when and how I learned to overclock and the end was those hours of P95 Blend. Hehehe.
Things have sure changed considerably in the succeeding years. Considered standards are greatly relaxed it would seem. But look around and we see that the whole social fabric has been relaxed as well. So why would it be any less in our overclocking hobby? It isn't.
Seeing myself in the face again, I understood why it was that I linked that thread above. It was because I could see the change in people and attitudes and times when one of the posters said >>
And notice what we are saying. We are telling the OP how long we test for. I scanned back over through the thread and I didn't see anyone saying, "You should test for ___ hours." Coming from an older school of overclocking, you would surely have a standard of excellence set. Generally it is 2 hours in this forum section. That is the validation of men and my peers that I attain to in the forum. It is not however my "ownself". After seeing myself over the last few months I found my ownself and face and understood myself better, when my FX-8350 took me to issue when I got out my sledge-hammer; now that was a worthwhile trip. I understood why it was that I pushed and tested and pushed and tested some more. That knowledge that I could and it would be there ready to perform according to my standards, had become me. Solid standards worked out for me over years of experience.
Heck what was all that rambling?
RGone...ster.
Dropped a worker shortly after 35 minutes....
