Analysing with Ryzen - temperatures ?

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Dann Corbit
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Re: Analysing with Ryzen - temperatures ?

Post by Dann Corbit »

I have lots of machines of all kinds analyzing around the clock.
I never had a machine crash, but I have had chess programs crash many times.

Stockfish crashes more than Komodo (maybe once in a month on a single machine).
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Re: Analysing with Ryzen - temperatures ?

Post by Joost Buijs »

Ponti wrote:If I get a Ryzen computer to analyse 24/7 a position from the opening, using all 8 cores to the engine, how hot will the processor get ?
It solely depends upon the efficiency of the processor-cooler you are going to use.

I don't have a Ryzen processor but an Intel 5960X and an Intel 6950X, both overclocked to 4GHz. and air cooled with a Noctua NH-D15. Under full load (with a chess engine) I usually see CPU temperatures between 50 and 55 degrees Celcius, in the summer when it is very hot this figure gets ~10 deg. C higher.

Most of the time have my systems running at full load and I never experience crashes due to Windows or faulty hardware. On occasion a program will crash but this is always caused by a bug in the program itself.