A Question On Burning-In

[takiwa]

I'm back...gave my sweet little P!!!550E to my girl (damn, I must love her...) and bought a Celly 900 for christmas. I had it running at 124FSB for a week or so, then booted at 133, 1.2GHz, but I keep getting errors in Prime and it shuts down on its own from time to time. How long should I run it at 124 before the jump to 133 full-time? It'll run Prime at 124 for 8+ hours with no errors...solid as a rock, and my vcore is at 2.00...any suggestions?

Also, I think I liked my 16Mb nVidia PCI better than this ATI 32Mb AGP card...graphics are better, but what a pain to o/c with AGP on this board!

[deez]

the simple answer is run at 124 until you can run stable at 133...there is no set time...it depends on your chip completely

if you have proper cooling increase your voltage another notch and that may help

[takiwa]

I am maxed out on voltage now...2.05 is as high as I can go on this celly, got it wired...
you read the sig...air-cooled at 25C as I type this...
I am at 1.2 right now...will run 3-5 CPU tests on Sandra's Burn-in before shutting off...gets through 4-5 Prime benchmarks, also, then shuts down...could it be a memory-related problem? Got 2 sticks of Micron PC-133 128Mhz at 3CAS, won't run at 2, XP gives a page fault error...or would mem play any part in CPU benching? I'm stuck...but I know this cD0 chip will do 133...got to be memory, huh? :confused: Somebody give me some insight, please.... (looking for the begging smilie.....)

[deez]

Dont think its your RAM...the Micron stuff is good...possibly its your vid card depending on your mobo divisor for AGP

Are you using anything to burn-in at while 124? Sandra or Prime95 work great but you cant really use your CPU. SETI is excellent for burn-in and Folding is too. I prefer SETI but I run it all the time. Helps keep the system stable b/c the CPU is always running at 100% when not being used

But you can also loop UT splash screen, run 3DMark 2000 in a loop etc to burn-in and reinstall XP if you've been getting errors

[takiwa]

i tried my old PCI nVidia TNT card to see if it was the AGP card or not...still does not want to act right. Maybe I just need to run the chip at 124 some more...I've ony had it about 2 weeks...hehe...thanks for the help, though, I think I'm just a little impatient, is all...:D

[outhouse]

give it some time my current CPU burned in twice once at 1.9 and it took 2 weeks to get the FSB maxed. Then when i upped to 2.1 i ran Seti 24\7 for 2 months before i could up the FSB.

[Pinky]

In theory you need to run the cpu at the slowest clock speed possible at the highest voltage. Also need to run the cpu as cool as you can.

I am actually burning my Tualatin in some at 26C load temps, 800 mhz (66fsbx12 multiplier). I have already gone up 2 mhz on the bus as a result and now I am hoping through a 2-3 day burnin, to lower the voltage required since the chip is getting too high and once it reaches 43C under load it crashes :(.

[deez]

I'm not positive that the burn-in helped but after burning the 1100E @66FSB 1.95v on the unstable Abit BP6 for about a week

I put it in the TUSL2C and hit 1308 at default voltage no problem

[takiwa]

ok, I don't understand why you would want to burn-in a chip at max voltage with minimum FSB...what would this accomplish?

I'm not disputing your claims...I'm kinda new to some of this, so I don't understand...please tell me the benefits of this method...:)

[deez]

Somebody posted a link to really good article a few weeks/months ago explaining the advantages...

Cant remember who it was though or in which thread

[MilkPowder-2]

Pinky and Outhouse, ya are correct.
As I have mentioned this before, that's the process how burn-in should be done. Here's some [H.]ardstuff... Clickkkkkkkkkk (http://people.freenet.de/s.urfer/conditioning.htm) This URL was referred by my m8 ol'man. ;)

[takiwa]

thx y'all for the help...good link, milkpowder, thx again

[MilkPowder-2]

no prob... :)

[deez]

yep...that was the link

[BoYRaCeR]

So its bad to overclock a new proc right from the box... :( ...oops.

[Yodums]

Its not bad Boyracer.

Just that its best to burn in first to get the CPU working abit before overclocking.

You'll most likely have to do it anyways so get on with it :)

[deez]

Originally posted by BoYRaCeR
So its bad to overclock a new proc right from the box... :( ...oops.

sometimes you can just get it where you wanna go right from the box...but a burn-in will never hurt anything...I'm still at deafult voltage OC'ed 209Mhz over stock speed now after a burn-in

Probly today I'm gonna pull my PCI cards and see how fast this puppy will go

[deez]

well i pulled the cards and can boot at 1364+ but cant run stable yet so I put em back in and I'll just run @ 1309 for a while