Burn - In Question

[Leeua]

Hi, what does "burning-in" your chip do?? Does it start to run more stable and cooler because its used to the speed now?? I am really puzzled over this term. Thanks guys.

[bigfoot]

Well, "burnning-in" has naver hepled me but it's rumored to suposidly be able to rais the maximum speed or your chip, I guess that you r suposed to run the burn-in feature of a program such as SiSoft's sandra at your maximum speed and there might be a chance to be able to rais the speed a pinch more. I usually jest use it to test if my system's stable after OCing it.

[Leeua]

This may seem like a weak metaphorical comparision, but is burning in like working out??

Like, if you lift 45 pounds this week (burning in your cpu), youll gain enough "muscle" (stability), to be able to lift 55 pounds the next week (being able to Oc at a higher speed)??

[Morphoius]

To burn in you underclock your chip a bit and run it at maximum voltage for a week or so, then you should be able to get an extra 30 mhz or so out of it.

[bigfoot]

Interesting metaphor but that sounds like the u got it.

[dugans]

Burn-in was taught to me as "the process of utilizing all of a cpu's processing cycles for a period of time to maximize the efficiency of the chip" by an obnoxious guy I used to know!

What I have found: after running SETI 24/7 on a new chip for a few weeks I can usually squeeze a little bit more overclock out of it.

[Leeua]

I dont know whats happening now to my computer but its really wierd. I was running really stable at around 1.54 and I took out my cpu to clean a little excess ASII off of it. Now, it is really unstable at that speed. Mind you , That I have yet to burn it in at those speeds and Im going to do it right now. Hope this goes well and that Ill be stable again by tonight.

[RangerJoe34]

hey leeua, if you dont already have it, then d/l sandra 2001...open up the burn wizard and run 50 cycles of it continuosly at 100%...after doing this i got 50 mor mhz out of my chip...i did the same to my RAM, and now all the programs use less ram to run

[Leeua]

yeah....got sandra....did the burn-in. But I never do it for 50 cycles. Haha....for me....if it passes 30 times....good enough for me....but maybe tonight I will run it 75 times overnight?? Oh yeah...on another thread, someone said that burning in melts some wax or releases the thermal paste thing. Is that only for the thermal phase change thing on the bottom of HSF?? If it is, then it doesnt really apply to me cause i have arctive silver on it.

Well, thanks for all your input guys. I have come to the conclusion that burning-in your cpu gives you the possibility to oc some more in the future. Thanks....any more input is always welcome!

[Crash893]

as far as i know the burn in proccess doesnt do anything to the chip

it just a good way to make sure your cpu doesnt have any defects in it when you buy it OR when you oc it to make sure its stable at the settings you picked.

[Leeua]

Just did a little research on this. I went on the arctic silver website. http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm

and here is what they said. There IS a break-in period for cpus with arctic silver!! Hehe, but not in the exact context that i was looking for. Anyways, here is what the website said:

Important Reminder

Due to the unique shape and sizes of the silver particles in Arctic Silver II, it will take up to 48 hours to achieve maximum particle to particle thermal conduction and for the heatsink to CPU interface to reach maximum conductivity. (This period will be longer in a system without a fan on the heatsink.) On systems measuring actual internal core temperatures via the CPU's internal diode, the measured temperature will drop as much as 2C to 4C over this "break-in" period.

I guess this applies only to those with new cpus cause changing the speed via Bios doesnt really touch the thermal. My comp is running more stable now by the way. Yet to Oc to original high of 1.57 though. Tell you guys what happds later on.

[Sonny]

Originally posted by Leeua
yeah....got sandra....did the burn-in. But I never do it for 50 cycles. Haha....for me....if it passes 30 times....good enough for me....but maybe tonight I will run it 75 times overnight?? Thanks....any more input is always welcome! I use the Burn In of Sandra as one of the tests to check for stability & I never really got a better O/C after burning in but that's just me;)

[keio]

I think that the Sisandra Burn In is doing a good thing to the CPU. After of running the burn in the CPU crached @1380mhz but after of doing the burn in @1330 its stable @1380.

[Crash893]

i personly use prime to burn in a cpu its much more sensitve to instablity

i dont think burning in a cpu does anything to the cpu pre say

i belive it just makes sure there is no manufacturing defects with it and when you OC it make sure that its running stable