burning xp

[craydog]

what is the best way to burn in my cpu?lower speeds?max speeds?can i still burn in a cpu that ive had for a while?any sites that go into detail about this?help!!!

[kevin_bouchard]

there are 3 way of burning a cpu
running your heatsink without a fan for a while
overclock the cpu to its max and run cpu intensive programs in a loop
max out the voltage and run cpu intensive...

these are all the methods(that i can think of)

some programs are made for certain cpus and others like prime, sandra are overall cpu burners.

hope this helps

[Mr B]

Don't know that I'd run an Athlon (XP or T-Bird) w/o a fan on the HS spinning...

There's several programs out there for "burning in" a CPU...The SiSoftSandra "CPU Burn In" utility is good, Prime95 is good,
Folding@Home is good, there's a proggie I found recently (someone posted this in "Cooling" the other day,I think) called "Toast" Supposedly, if your rig can run this for 5-10 minutes, it's stable...it's supposedly the equivalent of running any of the above mentioned overnight...

Let me dig out the URL for that thread...

**nope I was wrong...General Hardware is where this was posted...lol**

Here's the URL to the thread;

http://forums.overclockers.ws/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45847

;)

[kevin_bouchard]

oh ya the program toast, it works good in win98 but it only added about 4c to my temp in win xp, and about the fan thing i was not talking about doing it for about 4hours or something, but more on the lines of 3-4 mins (this also depends on your heatsink) some have a higher heat capacity then others.
is Folding@home really considered a burning program? it only added 2c to my temp, but this is winxp again.

[craydog]

ive got sandra,how long should i run it ta get a good burn in?

[kevin_bouchard]

its hard to say some people just run it in loop for a hour and others do it for a week and maybe longer:eek: , I would do it overnight and see what you get out of it.