cpu burn in

[takiwa]

Myth or real, I don't care. What I do care about is results. I could not get get my 1.1a to boot up past 122 with any amount of volatge for the first week I had it. I lowered the FSB to 66, raised the voltage (after the wire trick) to 1.775, and ran several burning apps for about 2 days. Shut it down, let it cool off, rebooted and set it to 133, and tada! I have it all the way to 142 now (either sound or network is holding me back, plus temps). Burning a chip in, to me, is stretching that chip's headroom, allowing me to more easily o/c it, with less effort. And out of one chip that it hasn't worked with, there are 300 that it has.

Some time ago we had a forum member that was actually an Intel Engineer that did all the cpu development. He said there is absolutely no such thing as "cpu burn in".

No offense, but I don't think Intel (or AMD, for that matter) would ever officially admit to something like that, especially on an overclocking site...

 

[Toast]

deez,

Thanks for the article. It was a great read.

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