Best way to break in a Duron??

[D4RK3N]

My Duron 900 should arrive tommorow and I'm planning on breaking it in as soon as I install it. I have read that prime95 is good for this. What about SETI@home? How long should the workout be prolonged? Also, I'm currently runnings a Duron 650@933 (7x133) which runs stable as a rock on a FSB of 133. will my Duron 900 run as stable on the same mobo @133 mhz FSB?

[GuNRocK]

i personaly belive that breaking in works....my cpu duron below would only hit 969mhz max what ever i did...and 2weeks ago i was messing with it....and i ran it at 1.888 and got it to post at 1016Mhz but itwoudltn load windows i think my cheep azz generic 250watt power supply needs to be a bit better LOL and after doign that for like 2hours it magicaly booted windows and with out errors...at a snidge under 1ghz at 997Mhz but thats since i nice little increase over my 969mhz which was my current max i could get out it.....i wish i had a newer Asus A7V rev1.01 like rev 1.05 so i could put this puppy at133bus.... also my board woudl not do anything at 10x multiplier even 10x90fsb 900bus...still wouldnt boot. :D

[proze]

just put the chip in and go for it... your chip won't overclock higher with time or long periods of exposure to stupidly high voltages or anything. run seti or prime cos you want to, and just overclock systematically... you'll get to your max by trial and error.

[Tomas]

Originally posted by Would71
I just put them in and use them. I don't really believe in burn-in, no matter what numbers people come up with to justify it. Really, how are you TRULY going to test it? You can't. The chip is only new once. If someone says "well I had this chip and I burnt it in and got a 33% overclock, and I had this other chip and I didn't burn it in and I only got a 31% overclock.." the point that they're missing is that they're using TWO CHIPS. If everything in the manufacturing process held 100% the same across the board, then there would be no yield problems with any chip. The worst chip would be just as good as the best chip. It doesn't work that way.. and until it does, I refuse to give creedence to anyone who claims without a doubt that burn-in works because it did better for their one chip than their other that wasn't.

The only absolute to me is absolute zero. All else is subject to a healthy level of questioning.. perhaps cynicism. :D

Then how can u explain this??

My old p1 133mhz couldnt do more than 150mhz stable, just got bsod on 180mhz and at 200mhz it didnt post at all.
After a while of burning in it was stable at 180mhz!!!
Guess what now its running on 200mhz 100% stable and as i speaking it has been up for 24days.
Now it posts at 225mhz but either i get a bsod during startup or it will lockup after getting into win2k.
Still using same hsw, disks, gfx card!! Nothing has changed so how u gonna explain this??

a 50mhz increase after a while of burning which is real good for a small cpu as that.

[!-=sky=-!]

burning in worked for me personally.....



:)

[SickBoy]

I was able to get 16 extra MHz after burning in... kind of diminishing returns.....

If you're looking for a good CPU burn in program look no further than Folding@Home.... :) it keeps your CPU at 100% utilization for days upon days on end.... AND you get to help your overclockers.com buds by folding for the team... :)

SickBoy

[ChadP]

Don't run a distrib. project (online at least) while burning in a CPU - until you know it's working right you might be sending in bogus results and that hurts the whole project. There are other ways to test these though...