2 Burning Burnin Questions

[marty]

I have been running my PIII700 very stable at 1.9 volts for a couple of weeks. Up until three weeks ago it had been at 840 with 1.85 volts and stock cooling.

Is it too late to do a burn in at 1.9 volts and 700 MHz? I bought this system in late November.

If I use Sandra should I just use the CPU Benchmark, CPU Multimedia Benchmark and Memory Benchmark?? It seems foolish to do the hard drive and CD benchmarks. They wouldn't tax the CPU as much and I see no reason at all to tempt fate by stressing a very nice quiet hard drive.

[Phil]

I wouldn't say it was too late, but you should already have had some of the effect seeing as you have been using it for a while,
I would use sandra and seti at the same time and yes you should only do the cpu multimedia and memory as these have the most direct use of the cpu.

[Lancelot]

This burning in really seems to pay off! I had my new Celeron 800 running at 1Ghz at default voltages for about three weeks. This week, after getting a BIOS update, I let it run SETI at 1.9Vc and 3.6Vio (at default speed) for about 36 hours, and now I'm at 1052Mhz@8x131.55 using 1.85Vc and 3.5Vio!!! It wouldn't even boot without into windows at these FSB speeds without locking up before I did the burn-in... So, go for it, but be careful with your stock-cooler though! Mine's also an orginal Intel crap fan-heatsink but it's a larger one than the one originally supllied with the celemine...