burn-in

[water_cooler 20]

does burning in a chip help its overclock abilty

 

[{PMS}fishy]

Went from 1800mhz to 1900mhz to 1985mhz. You tell me.

 

[water_cooler 20]

how long did u burn it in

 

[{PMS}fishy]

Weeks. Over time it just gets faster. I don't really think that more voltage at default speed does anything. Run the chip as fast as possible and then keep pushing it. After a few weeks the speed will progress.

 

[Tipycol]

Burning in helped me get my PIII to run at 112fsb instead of a 103fsb, and my board doesn't even have voltage adjustments

 

[Emericana]

have used 10cpus probably all athy xp and not a single one has gained a single mhz from "burning in" even after being run at 2.0v on air cooling (w/o crazy fans)

 

[jlin453]

How is Sandra's burnin software? I've used it for about 24 hours for the memory bandwidth, but haven't used the cpu arithmetic option yet.

 

[Tipycol]

How is Sandra's burnin software? I've used it for about 24 hours for the memory bandwidth, but haven't used the cpu arithmetic option yet.

Not sure, since I only used Prime 95 to burn in, but from what people say it's just as good.