burn in....

[mikren]

would looping the demo from 3dmark2001 be considered for a good burn in ??? Or does it have to be the benchmark itself ??? Just curious, cause i don't like having the monitor coming on and off all the time during the refresh rates,

tks for the input.

[-=UR=- Ranger]

According to me, the demo isn´t very usefull for burn in. It doesn´t stress your CPU enough, as it is not real-time rendering but a video

[Phil]

3dmark isn't very good for a burn in any way, I recomend prime95 and sandra burn-in wizard at the same time, in sandra you want the cpu, multimedia and memory benchmark selected in the burn-in wizard, this will give the whole cpu a stress
what chip are you burning in?

[mikren]

duron700 @884 104x8.5 1.3v

for now.

[Aman99]

1.3V? why is your voltage so low? I'm suprised it can do over 800 at that low of voltage.

If you didn't make a typo, i bet your chip could go really high at 1.85V.

Aaron

[proze]

i don't really believe in burn-in as a means to increase the overclocking potential of a chip, but if you mean to test the stability of your setup, then i've found the following:

if you're overclocking the fsb by much, or you've overclocked your video card, then you pretty much have to test both the cpu, and the 3d sub-system. i can run seti or sandra burn-in for hours at some settings, but games or 3dmark2000 will freeze in two minutes at those same settings.

imho, you should run setu@home or prime95 or sandra burn-in for a coupla hours, but then also play a game, or run 3dmark2000 (not the demo) for an hour or two. this will make sure that both you cpu/mem systems and 3d systems are okay.

[Sirfin]

I run prime 95 & seti concurrently while doing a Sisoft sandra burn in routine to check stability and idle/load temps. <g>.

http://mersenne.org/freesoft.htm
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu
http://www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/

If it can do all that and make it through Madonion.com 3dmark 2000/2001 then I'd say your system was stable. ;-) You can also see if your realising increased performance from your o/c as well.

Sirfin~

[kat]

i on the other hand beleave fully that burn in will alow a chip to creep up 10 30 mgz my 1ghz tbird was stuck at 1210 (i believe look at my old posts) and had never heard of burn in ,tryed it (rc5) and in just a few days jumped to 1232.... better memory and some tweaking alowed me to get to 1246 ;D

[mikren]

Aman99 (Apr 15, 2001 03:29 p.m.):
1.3V? why is your voltage so low? I'm suprised it can do over 800 at that low of voltage.

If you didn't make a typo, i bet your chip could go really high at 1.85V.

Aaron that's no typo ...i'm running at 1.3 volts(default)
I tried to raise the voltage to 1.45 but the system wouldn't reboot. I'm trying to reach 900...tried 9x100 , booted half way through windows and froze. tried 8.5x106 to get 901mhz but did same thing so that's when i tried to up the voltage but system wouldn't boot.

my stable setting right now is 700@884 8.5x104 1.3v
idle42c under load aprox 46 or 47c
ran 3dmark2001 benchmard 6 or 7 times over and no problems....

Any suggestions as to how i can get it to go higher??

[Phrack]

Thats odd. Raising the voltage usually increases stabililty.

[TechnoFile]

the default voltage for a Duron 700 is 1.6, not 1.3. But if its stable for you, go with it. I am suprised by your temps, though. I would have figured cutting the voltage down that much would get the temps much lower.

[mikren]

In my bios it shows the default setting of 1.3v
I lapped the stock hsf and all i got for a cooling fan on the cpu is the "coolmaster"