The Official CPU Burn-In Guide...does it exist?

[WillysNut]

Is there an established method to burning in a CPU? I have searched several sites, and have gathered a large amount of confilcting information regarding what a burn-in is and what it actually does.

1) A burn in really ony lets you test your processor under load to see if it stable at a given speed, fsb, voltage, etc....to see if it has any flaws.

2) A burn in "may" allow you to achieve the same given speed at a lower voltage by means of running the processor at load for "x" amount of hours, days at voltage "x" and then lowering the voltage and retesting.

BurnP6 is the best program I have found for achieving the highest amount of processor load. I have run a "burn-in" for 8 hours. (118FSB, 1.95v) but have not really been able to lower the voltage following the burn-in...

Does "burn-in" work better or worse for Celerons vs. PII's vs. PIII's vs. Celeron 2's??? How long, what voltage, what FSB for a PIII 850e??? Thanks!!!

[Placid]

Run it at stock speed with high voltage. 1.9 for a p3.
How long is a hard question to answer.
Some people will burn in for weeks running seti or something in the background.

[Pinky]

Placid (May 24, 2001 11:04 a.m.):
Run it at stock speed with high voltage. 1.9 for a p3.
How long is a hard question to answer.
Some people will burn in for weeks running seti or something in the background.

Yep (for PIIIs going past 1.90v is a bad idea), for celerons try about 2.00v at default speed (they tolerate more abuse and require a higher burn-in). Burn-in has allowed several overclocks I've done to achieve stability at lower voltages, hence reducing it's running temperature.

Good rule of thumb, however -- If it works, don't fix it.