"cpu burning in"

[aja]

run your cpu at the lowest voltage possible that allows you to run a benchmark that stresses it out, like running two instances of prime, or occt....dont use sandra....you should be able to get into windows and start the bench, but the pc will crash if you run the bench and start surfing the net and play a game or whatever at the same time - it is only partly stable.....E.G. i ran my 820 at 1.475V(rock solid stable), then gradually got it down to 1.425 so far, by starting to bench at 1.45V and going down incremantally once it became stable

prime will stop and say there was an error in the calculation...then you run it again and again, and eventually the number of errors decrease, until it is stable at that voltage....the longer you do it, the lower vcore you can achieve, well to a point anyway.....then you overclock a bit more and raise the vcore until its stable, then benchmark and slowly drop the vcore again and so on.....

the lower your vcore, the lower your temps, the higher you can overclock.....

keep your cpu disciplined, give it the absolute minimum voltage it needs to benchmark and then repeat unlil it becomes stable, could take quite a few hours though.....

you can also do this for memory....use s&m and do a memory test....eventually you will be able to drop your vdimm as well(hopefully!)

i saw the best results when i ran my 820 at 3.025GHz, and managed to go from its stock vcore of 1.325V to 1.020V - can you say ambient room temp of 24'C and load 33'C under dual prime and s&m memory testing??


the same applies to benching the cpu at a set vcore, then slowly raising its clockspeed until it is partly stable, then benching it until it becomes stable, but the first method seems to work better IMO, but play around.....


wow, that's a lot of stuff.....okay bubye


EDIT: if it is too unstable and prime stops all the time, then you can initially use sandra for a few hours and then start to use prime once it is stable....just make sure to disable the hardware monitoring feature when you do the burn in with sandra, otherwise it is also going to stop all the time.....(and maybe do an s&m memory test simultaneously when you do sandra just to put that extra bit of pressure on the cpu[s&m mem test puts 100% usage on the cpu on its own anyway] remember to use the windows task manager to make sure that the cpu is indeed awake and sweating!)

[eBoy0]

So let me ask you... what do you do when you need 1.6v to just boot the PC, but it's 100% stable in windows?