thespatalian Posted July 24, 2003 Posted July 24, 2003 I've just gotten in my noice 2.6c and I have an IC7-G coming in tomorrow. I'm not really that big a newb and overclocking, i've messed w/ p4c's and ic7's many a time this summer and know how to use the board to get the most oc out of the cpu. My question is, do you think I should burn it in a take my time to get to 3.2-3.5? I've got great ram and great cooling so im not too worried about my odds of getting a nice oc, i'm just not too sure if i should burn it in a lil' by lil' or just barge in. Techinically, burning in a CPU shouldn't make a difference, either it works or it doesn't, but i've heard many an oc'er say that they couldn't reach a speed and after burning it in they finaly were able to reach their goal. So what exactly are ya'll's experiences w/ burning in a cpu? Also, what are the best 3d benchmarks out there and other benchmarking programs, i know prine95 to test stability and hardocp's ut2k3 benchamark, but what are some other nice hardware benchmarks I shoulk look in to? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
syneze Posted July 24, 2003 Posted July 24, 2003 Personally, burning in has never worked for me. I wouldn't recommend you just crank it up right away. Go up slowly and just use prime95 to test for 5-10 mins. Then once you're up there start testing it for longer (24 hrs or so). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinal Posted July 24, 2003 Posted July 24, 2003 ya i would burn in it you were goin to oc it does help Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trakfast11 Posted July 24, 2003 Posted July 24, 2003 (edited) yeah, i agree with syneze on the process to take. just make sure that when you get to your highest stable oc, let it burn in for longer periods of time (atleast a few of days, the more the better). if you push on too high too soon after that then you may end up not being 100% when you go back to your last stable oc'ed frequency (and then you'll have to burn-in at a lower frequency in order to try to get back to stable at the higher oc). it happened to me , but i've learned and recovered since then ( i ended up waiting about a month before trying to raise my freq back to my high oc and ended up going past it). now i'm trying to get to 2565Mhz, which i was never 100% stable at. only lasted a few minutes over 2hrs before P95 errored and, soon after, restarted. so we'll see what happens. gl to ya Edited July 24, 2003 by Trakfast11 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exeter_acres Posted July 24, 2003 Posted July 24, 2003 Here is a thread from a few days ago.....Burn in Thread I agree, that theoretically burning in shouldn't make a differnce, but in practice, burning in has allowed me to gain good overclocks with a lower vCore..... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted July 24, 2003 Posted July 24, 2003 (edited) What's a url for prine95 download? and the unreal...? I like sandra and 3dmark03 tyvm Edited July 24, 2003 by |- MEGIDDO -| Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exeter_acres Posted July 24, 2003 Posted July 24, 2003 http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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