View Full Version : Best method for burning in a CPU?
^^Gord^^
11-01-2002, 12:41 AM
As the topic says :D
Marci
11-01-2002, 02:34 AM
Lotsa folding, lotsa gaming, 3DMark, Sandra CPU Benches... anything that puts your CPU under load...
That little cion at the bottom of Sandra that says "burn in wizard" is usually a good place to start...
zakelwe
11-01-2002, 03:57 AM
Originally posted by Marci
Lotsa folding, lotsa gaming, 3DMark, Sandra CPU Benches... anything that puts your CPU under load...
That little cion at the bottom of Sandra that says "burn in wizard" is usually a good place to start...
Do you burn it in at default voltage and speed or do you stress work it ?
Regards
Andy
Work ur way up. Go in steps w/ voltage & mhz to burn it in. I've never actually burned in a chip myself, but I did notice my AROIA's max OC increasing over time. :)
Dissolved
11-01-2002, 05:36 AM
we should make a testing rig to burn in all our cpus :)
zakelwe
11-01-2002, 06:09 AM
Thanks N8.
The obvious problem is of course that I am at work now and my Xp2400 got deilvered today and when I get home I'm going to open the beers and cannot really see myself thinking :-
"Ok I'll leave it at 15 x 133 until Monday "
:D
Regards
Andy
Marci
11-01-2002, 06:49 AM
Nah... chuck it in at 15x133 default voltage... let it boot, have a play to check stability...
reboot, set FSB to 166 and multi down a notch or 2, increase voltage one notch... back into windows... same again...
Keep going til your FSB maxes out, raising voltage each time...
Then leave it on 24/7 for a few days running F@H or summat...
The chip basically burns itself in as your going along... the longer you leave it between increases the more it gets burnt in at that speed... what you need to do is find it's current max and burn it in at that... then in a few days push it higher and it should go.... when you have it at new max, repeat the process until you'll get to a point where no matter how much burn-in u do it won't go higher. Then you've maxed yer chip. The only thing to try then is improved cooling and vmods to get more voltage to it.
zakelwe
11-01-2002, 12:29 PM
Originally posted by Marci
Nah... chuck it in at 15x133 default voltage... let it boot, have a play to check stability...
reboot, set FSB to 166 and multi down a notch or 2, increase voltage one notch... back into windows... same again...
Keep going til your FSB maxes out, raising voltage each time...
Then leave it on 24/7 for a few days running F@H or summat...
The chip basically burns itself in as your going along... the longer you leave it between increases the more it gets burnt in at that speed... what you need to do is find it's current max and burn it in at that... then in a few days push it higher and it should go.... when you have it at new max, repeat the process until you'll get to a point where no matter how much burn-in u do it won't go higher. Then you've maxed yer chip. The only thing to try then is improved cooling and vmods to get more voltage to it.
Thanks Marci,
That sounds like a good plan. I will send you the chip details and overclock for your database when I have finished this process.
I'll assume stability when pifast can be run, rather than something more extreme like Distributed Folding
Regards
Andy
Micutzu
11-01-2002, 06:46 PM
What database is that ?