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Spajky2 said:@ Sentential & ALL others ...
Hey Guys; has anyone ever thought about pre-burning a CPU even before is new mounted on the MoBo, like I have done with all my CPUs till now: [ http://freeweb.siol.net/jerman55/HP/preBurn-in.htm ] ? After this kind of "thermal Burn-in" I proceeded than with few weeks slowly step-by-step "electrical Burn-in" with working CPU inside PC running this: [ http://users.volja.net/jerman55/Burn-In.zip ] /16kb! only/ This stuff heats most - watch temps !!! It is no harder work for a Cpu than this for sure! Bye ... ...
trodas said:Hmmm, this might explain why my oldie Barton, witch used to need 2.1Vcore to run stable at 2200Mhz (hey, this IS a old CPU, don't bash it for poor OC) requires now only 1.9Vcore to be stable at 2200Mhz.
I never run CPU burn-it on it, tough. I just let it fold... LOL
I might try to get this suxxka working at 1.850Vcore at 2200Mhz tough. Might be worth a try. 1.900Vcore seems too much for me...
And the improvents I before attributed to my DFI LP modding (echanging and adding several hi-quality caps), hmm. Might not be then true...
felinusz said:I'm having the same problem right now - inexplicably, after I reinstalled Prime95 on my WinXP partition, the program will no longer bring my CPU up to 100% useage. It'll go up to 15-30%, and then fall to ~7%, never making any progress past the first test - although not erroring or freezing either.
Prime95 still works fine on my Win2K partition though... very strange.
Heat has nothing to do with any of the methods I use. What this does occurs on an electrical level, not a thermal onebumsquad said:Hmm thinking about doing this. I was never able to hit 3ghz w/ my opt 146, so may b i will with this techinique. I'll update once i c some results.
UPDATE: Running burn in as we speak @ 1.3v for 2.8ghz. My only question is that at this low voltage its not heating up at all. Load temps w/ burn in are barely 40C... Wat do i do? Will it affect effectiveness if my cpu isn't even hot?