What's Your thoughts on burn-in??

[benjammin182]

Ok, I've heard that burning in a processor will help it be more stable or what not. Is this true???
Also if I were to use the sisoft burn-in tool how long should I let the thing go to get a good burn-in??

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1ghz athlon
320mb pc-133 ram
abit kt7 raid100
8mb trident (killed my geforce2)
20.5gb hdd

[benjammin182]

C'mon, anyone?

"bump"

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1ghz athlon
320mb pc-133 ram
abit kt7 raid100
8mb trident (killed my geforce2)
20.5gb hdd

[drzaius]

yeah burning works, for me atleast. just leave your chip clocked at the highest possible fully stable, and put the voltage as high as you can,(within reason) and then leave for a couple of days or weeks, maybe months and then every once in a while try to put the chip higher.

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cel 566@900, Kyro and SDRAM GOOD. P3 1.13gig, GTSultra 64meg/V5 6k and RDRAM BAD.

[600R]

It seemed to work when I was into overclocking older K6-x cpu's but on my Duron 700, I didnt notice any difference at all. Its a hard decision to beleive whether it works or not......

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[BladeRunner]

Get THIS and set-it to run when you are not using the PC. It stress the CPU to higher temps than SETI for me, and it will also give the graphics a work out. Good stability indicator as It will desktop eventually if you are unstable. It is also a very pretty and realistic screensaver. (The deluxe 7 fish version is better)

[GOSHARKS]

i have that screen saver bladerunner best one i've seen with fishes

i have had no luck with burning in, tried with a couple diff. cpus, no luck

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[GOSHARKS]

hey blade, is that you over there in their forum too?

[BladeRunner]

The one and only

[RAMmyBUS]

Burning in worked for me, well actually it allowed me to lower the voltage to points when it used to be unstable.
-ram

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Yeah... bout' the only thing you wouldn't want to overclock, would be your clock...
Unless you just want to be early all the time..

[Crazy-Demon]

Cant overclock myself, but I think that upping the voltage does work.
Just remember, there IS a big difference between the 'burn in' and 'burn up'

[Kruz]

Burnin works.....
when i first got this 566 it went 850 right away. stock voltage, but to get it to 918 had to set voltage to 1.90, wouldent go higher, couple of weaks later i tryed again.
this time it went to 944, this went on till i got to where i'm at now,
this has worked twice before for me.
a cel 366@566 and another 566@952(so far).

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Mark
Celeron 566@1065MHz,1.95v,
Abit BE6-II Bios= RV , Abit Slocket3, Alpha-pep66+72wPELT, Micron PC100-8E{128mb) ,Gforce2MX@200\210 ,linskys 10/100, 3Com 10/100.
Win98se

[Burnt_IN]

Hehe - I too can vouch for 'burning in'. My PIII450 (old news I know, but still...) would at first only run around the 540 mark. After running Prime95 constantly for 3/4 days I could post beyond 570 and stable. Only way to find out is to give it a try!!!

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Wonder what happens when I flick this dip swi.....

[SDS]

I've never seen this work and don't see how it can.

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I²C bus, TO3 case, P4 CPU.

[Justintime]

has worked for me in the past, most notably with the k6 line, never tried it with durons or athlons though.

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Jr

[Ramius]

I don't know if burnin works but as far as i know it could because the cooling paste works better after it has gotten some heat. I know that the arctic silver had to get about a week with 100% cpu load before it made my life better