new cpu burn-in

[brojoh2]

I know there are different schools of thought out there on the subject of "burn-in" of a new cpu but I'd like to hear them. I really want to give this new 1.33ghz baby the best of care.

All comers from all schools of thought please chime in. Thanx

[Oni]

You wanna burn your chip in eh? Well, first off, make sure your Vcore is at default, and you've overclocked a bit, if thats your thing. Also make sure that you're hsf cools enough to handle the temperatures given off. You'll wanna have some monitoring software or hardware. Some good software monitoring software is Motherboard Monitor 5.05. Its the best I've used. To burn it in, grab some proggies like Folding@home, SETI@Home, Prime95, 3DMark2000/2001 etc, and make sure you have a graphically intensive game such as Quake 3 Arena or Unreal Tournament or the like. Start up your monitoring software, and make sure that you keep an eye on it, to make sure that your temperatures don't go too high. I'd say, if the temp gets to like say, 60 Celsius, terminate the burn-in and get better cooling. After you've burned it in for about 24 hours, try lowering your Vcore below default. That will greatly reduce your temperatures. Hope that this helped.

[taz1004]

Yes, get Motherboard Monitor from here
http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

Also, you might wanna get Shutdown Now which works with Motherboard Monitor.
http://www.dworld.de/

It's good idea if the CPU overloads and you're not there to shut it down.

Then, I would run this small CPU stability test program.
http://www.the-ctrl-alt-del.com/utilities.htm

Or get the Quake3 torture demo from the same web site.

--BrianC

[Megahurtz]

This works for me. Lowering the multiplier as low as you can, whilst boosting the Vcore to maximum.

Then run a whole series of cpu intensive programs in order to stress as many of the PMOS and NMOS registers as possible. I never let my reported temperatures exceed 40C, but anything under 45C is acceptable.

For the still somewhat controversial theory and practice of burning-in try this (http://people.freenet.de/s.urfer/conditioning.htm). Links to all of the necessary programs are there, as well as the usual caveats.

T

[Wa11y]

I'm new to all this, too, and I'm kinda lost on what all is what. What specifically is the "VCore"? And I'm assuming that most the the multipliers and such are taken care of in the BIOS anymore, since most new mobos don't have jumpers or dipswitches for them.
What is the reason for doing a cpu burn-in? What does it do specifically, and what are the benefits? And the theory behind it would be nice too. I wanna overclock the best I can the first time I try, and not let out too much blue smoke.

[jeff_harrison_344]

Burning in is done to bassicly get higher MHz while lowering your VCORE, because the higher the Vcore, the more heat, and heat is bad :)

[Wa11y]

So, VCore would then be the Core Voltage? I understand that to get your processor to run faster you need to feed more power to it, which naturally generates more heat. So, when I'm doing the burn in, I would set my VCore as high as it can go, and get some good cooling on it, so it doesn't slag itself and let out all its blue smoke, let it burn for 24 hours or so...then what? When I'm done with the burn-in, I can lower the VCore, and still get the same MHz out of the processor?
And thanks for the quick reply. You guys are the greatest!

[Megahurtz]

So, VCore would then be the Core Voltage?

Yes.

I understand that to get your processor to run faster you need to feed more power to it, which naturally generates more heat. So, when I'm doing the burn in, I would set my VCore as high as it can go, and get some good cooling on it, so it doesn't slag itself and let out all its blue smoke, let it burn for 24 hours or so...then what?

You probably will be able to run at a higher clockspeed for a given voltage..and if the planets are in alignment, a higher ultimate clockspeed.

When I'm done with the burn-in, I can lower the VCore, and still get the same MHz out of the processor?

See last remarks for more details..:)

Enjoy,

T

[Wa11y]

Excellent, thank you. I fell with you people at my back, I can keep from burning it up too badly. Thanks for the help. Now I just need to get the parts for my PC so I can overclock it, and familiarize myself with it.

Thanks again.