exeter_acres Posted August 7, 2003 Posted August 7, 2003 OK... if you have read any previous threads, you will know I am a huge fan of a very long burn in between FSB jumps (we are talking days, not hours.....) If i drop my FSB and vCore back to stock settings..... Do you think I would need to start over with my burn ins or just jump back up since the system would have been already stressed? Any ideas on this?? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Propane Posted August 7, 2003 Posted August 7, 2003 well - its kinda like a shirt - once you streatch it, it will be that way for a long time - make sense? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exeter_acres Posted August 7, 2003 Posted August 7, 2003 That is the theory I am hoping is true!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borisw37 Posted August 7, 2003 Posted August 7, 2003 I thought burn-in just tests computer's stability. I did not think it actually does any thing to improve the stability. Can somebody explain how this works. I mean there are no physical changes in the processor if you run burn-in or not. Unless you fogot to put a heatsink on there Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exeter_acres Posted August 7, 2003 Posted August 7, 2003 If you look at a text book... correct.. it should not make any difference,,but this is the bizarre little world of overclocking Here is a thread that talks about it..It is a long post, but worth the info.(as always nice work Trak!) Trakfast's Burn in Thread What several of us have found is that a good burn in allows us (OK.. at least me!!) to obtain higher overclocks with a lower vCore voltage... thereby reducing heat...... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trakfast11 Posted August 8, 2003 Posted August 8, 2003 (edited) What several of us have found is that a good burn in allows us (OK.. at least me!!) to obtain higher overclocks with a lower vCore voltage... thereby reducing heat...... Do you think I would need to start over with my burn ins or just jump back up since the system would have been already stressed?i haven't been setting all settings to full on the first boot after going from stock settings since i've found that it doesn't always want to boot for me after doing so (i don't know why it happens. all i know is that i'm much more successful at booting if i up all voltage related settings and multiplier first -> reboot -> change fsb.) and i don't know any official word on this either, but i just boot to a frequency just below my max stable (don't know if it helps any but it hasn't been hurting and thats all i care about ). and after a few hours i shutdown Windows and set my highest stable settings in the bios and reboot. i'm thinking you'd probably be able to go straight to max stable settings though, but i have not checked into this myself or heard anything about this. so probably do what feels comfortable. and here is another quote from a person that let their processor burn-in and was able to reduce their vcore and maintain stability as well (actually this person has been able to get several PCs to operate more efficiently at oc'ed frequencies after burning in). this setup is pretty old, but still applies today. "After this removing the metal cover and attaching the heatsink directly to the core, my system is now rock solid running [email protected] volts. SETI is now able to run for days on end without producing a segmentation fault. *UPDATE: After burning-in the K6-3 400 running the SETI@home client for several days, it is now running [email protected] volts stable with just the heatsink (no fan)." http://www.knowplace.org/k6-3.html thx exeter p.s: sorry i posted late. so what did you end up doing? and how was your processor's stability afterwards? Edited August 8, 2003 by Trakfast11 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
savethedodobird Posted August 8, 2003 Posted August 8, 2003 I had to burn in again. i had the mult from 13 to 14 stable. then i clocked back down. when i wanted to go back i couldnt get stability past 13.5. So i burned in a little and its back. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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