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Idontcare.
There don't need to be many changes I think.
For Intel Burn Test
All RAM, for x number of hours (versus x number of cycles).
As indicated, there are large kits now available (G.Skill and I think Corsair now offer 8x 16GB kits), for Haswell-E.
Maybe 2 hours?
For Prime95
Probably could be unchanged.
12 hours again.
For HCI MemTest
I think it may be worth mentioning that the premium version isn't too expensive ($5 USD, or about ~NT$165 at current exchange rates). It offers error logging as well.
For $14 USD, you can get a boot CD as well.
For OCCT
Probably unchanged for the GPU - still the most stressful GPU test, more so than Furmark.
I have seen some people use Folding@Home as a "real world" test, but that isn't as stressful.
As far as warnings go
Intel Burn Test and Prime 95 will lead to CPU temperatures of about 20-30C warmer than most loads (compared to say, x264 encoding or file compression or similar loads a typical end user will do).
OCCT GPU burns will run perhaps 20-30C warmer as well for GPUs, although the difference is smaller when compared to Folding or Coin Mining (now taken over by ASICs).
IBT and the later versions of Prime will enable AVX, which can use up to +0.1V more than other loads.
Maybe a safe voltages list?
For 22nm CPUs:
- Say 1.35V VCore on 22nm CPUs
- Probably advisable to have a system agent (VCCSA), VTT, voltages as well.
- Haswell should also have a maximum VRIN/VCCIN voltage (say 2.1V for 24-7)
- I'd recommend no more than 1.7V VDIMM for DDR3
- As far as general guidelines for the non-E Intel CPUs, delidding will net perhaps 15-30C load by reducing the distance between the core and the die (the large range is because Devil's Canyon generally sees smaller gains from delidding than Ivy Bridge/Haswell original); Haswell-E and AMD CPUs are of course soldered, so this is not needed
For Skylake
- Nobody yet has established a "safe" Vcore voltage, but I'd assume that 14nm would be lower than 22nm, so perhaps 1.25V is a good baseline? I have noticed many reviewers benchmarking at 1.4V - I would guess that is not something you want 24-7.
- Right now not all of the motherboards have even been released including many flagships (Ex: Asus Z170 Maximus Extreme, MSI Z170A Xpower, Gigabyte Z170 SOC Force, etc), so it's really early to tell, but day to day looks like 4.5-4.7 GHz, with a few "golden" 4.8 GHz chips.
- DDR4 maximum for 24-7 should be 1.4V VDIMM
- As far as delidding - Add a warning for those delidding (from Ian Cutress' article) on the thin PCB: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9505/skylake-cpu-package-analysis
These are just my figures off the top of my head and my ideas. Final guide could be different.