Author: Keith Evans
Date: 17:41:39 07/02/03
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On July 02, 2003 at 18:44:01, Aaron Gordon wrote: >On July 02, 2003 at 18:25:22, Keith Evans wrote: > >>On July 02, 2003 at 17:58:58, Aaron Gordon wrote: >For the most part, the chips are tested in a temperature controlled area with >"average" cooling. That way you don't need some god-like cooler to run stable. >Any old cooler rated for near what the chip is rated at will do fine. > >I understand your concerns about testing, however, temperature does make a >massive difference. If the chips are that on edge in the first place, BurnK7 >and/or Prime95 will produce errors, crash/lock/reboot the system, etc. That still doesn't mean that it's exercising the worst case path. Due to the elevated temperature lot of paths could be failing which causes catastrophic failures. But when you reduce the frequency a bit that doesn't mean that the worst case path is then ok. What if the failure mode is obscure? Being close to the edge is ok as long as you know where the edge is.
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