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>gives you a BSOD, oops or panic at worst. That's not too bad. I'd be much more worried about code silently doing the wrong thing .
by koala_man 7y ago
>gives you a BSOD, oops or panic at worst.
That's not too bad. I'd be much more worried about code silently doing the wrong thing .
- bayindirh 7y agoThat's also possible. That's why overclockers run Prime95 to test their CPU stability. Also, a BSOD or panic in the wrong time can cause massive data loss. That's beyond bad sometimes. Edit: I mixed Prime95 with SuperPi. Thanks AaronFriel.
- AaronFriel 7y agoThat happens too. Prime 95 and other stability tests are used and can check when wrong results are returned. There's often a sliver of frequencies where a system under load begins performing floating point calculations incorrectly while other, simpler systems in the CPU are still functioning correctly. The BSOD, oops, or panic is a symptom of widespread errors.
- atq2119 7y agoWhy do you think the panic happens? It's because the code does the wrong thing, and that happens silently... until it hits some pointers or kernel structures and stops being silent.
- bayindirh 7y agoNot always. CPUs have extensive "machine check" capabilities. some of these MCE events are recoverable, some not. If the processor fires an unrecoverable MCE event, you're frozen with a nice, explanatory panic.