"Burn In" method....

[Irondog]

What's "burn in"? is there anyone can esplain me this method? what are the advantages?

[Allan Nielsen]

Some people have seen good results with burning in, but others have not. For some there is no difference at all, and as far as I know there are NO actual guarantees from anyone saying that it will help...

Basically it's setting the core voltage up high, and let the computer do some "thinking", with programs like Folding, seti or Prime95, at default speed. After some time, you may be able to overclock higher at lower voltages, than you would have without the burn in.

[Phil]

on my cCO celeron 600 I set the speed to 600 and the voltage to 2v, then for a few months I ran things like prime95 and seti etc.., I then decided to see how low I could get my voltage, I set it to 600 and put the voltage to the lowest my board would support (1.3v) to my suprise it posted, booted into windows and ran prime95 all night, I gradually boosted the speed up to 750, still at 1.3v and it was still rock solid. at 900 it wasn't quite as good, it needed 1.55v to be stable, remember this is a chip that supposedly needs 1.7v at 600mhz and ws now running at 900 with only 1.55v, it needed 1.6v for 927 and still needed 1.9v for 1.01ghz (the same as a month or so of burning in) I have now set my voltage to 2.2v and speed to 600 to see if this will help with 1.01ghz

[Wunder]

Did you run some tests to see if there had been any performance losses after the burn-in? At the same speed of course...
I mean, processors could gradually deteriorate when electrocuted (what ive heard) so maybe, just maybe the processor ran faster @ 600 MHz before the burn-in, since weaker non-essential components have been fried...

[Phil]

chips don't work like that, if there had been any sort of damage like that done to it it just wouldn't work, and it does perform exactly the same