I understand a lot of this already, sorry I wasn't making any of this clear.
It's not my first time doing OC, the concerns were more about Skylake problems, and concerns of how legitimate AVX is for Stress testing, if this just goes way beyond the norm, or it's within reason, as one concern, along with the Skylake bug I mention below...
I'm pretty Geek when it comes to Linux, I compile and hack on the system and apps all the time, and I never recall anything AVX ever in my Linux systems. As far as Windows 7 is concerned, all I do is Game in it.
Also has anyone read about the Skylake Bug as it relates to AVX, this is where I'm saying, no matter what we do with our OC, or even running the system Stock, according to what I've read online, it's going to crash at some point in time;
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/220953-skylake-bug-causes-intel-chips-to-freeze-in-complex-wor...https://www.pcworld.com/article/3021023/hardware/how-to-test-your-pc-for-the-skylake-bug.htmlSo there is suppose to be a BIOS fix for this, and these articles dates back to 2016.
Now when I run Prime95 at Stock for only a few minutes it does ok, run the OC for the same amount of time, and that is stable on Realbench and it crashes, which makes me wonder if it's only because of AVX I see this crash in Prime95, or the system isn't really all that stable? Of course I understand all the various stress apps respond in different ways, get one to pass and get another one to fail, and then so many different opinions on the matter...
I'm on 3504, I don't want to update to 3703, because of issues I've been hearing relating to this.