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burning in?

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Seraphim974

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well i am getting a mobile barton 2500+ and plan to overclock it pretty far but when i read the reviews on newegg people talk about burning in their processor and how they cannot wait to do it. what is that all about. are they just talking about running the processor overclocked for a while until it runs stable?
 
Running Prime95 and memtest for a certain amount of hours. There are other programs too that will stress it too. If you get no errors through all the stress testing then your OC should be stable.

I had prime95 running and then i went to check it said i had an error at 18hours. so i ran it again and an error just after 1 hour. I raised the vcore abit and running prime95 again, so far so good.

and memetest i ran for about 10hours, no errors there.
 
Here is what I have been told. "Burning In" is a process of running your CPU at full load, 100% CPU usage, for a long time so that the "transistors" will become more relaxed at the overclocked speed.

Personally I have never noticed difference is the ability to overclock before or after overclocking. If you want a test to see if your OC is stable then loop the 3Dmark 2003 demo, @ max settings, overnight. If your PC didn’t freeze, the OC is stable.

Oh, and if I am wrong please correct me.
 
"Burning In" is a process as stated by those before me where an electrical component (pc, power supply, home stereo amplifier, etc) is electrically stressed to facilitate stabilizing factors such as
capciitance, impedence, and dielectric resistance. Applying voltage over time to system components (capacitors, resistors, semiconductors, and even wire for that matter) stabilizes their individual electrical properties. Some people swear by it, and will not "push" their system before they believe a sufficient amount of time has elapsed to "break in" their systems. I personally don't practice "burning in" for the traditional reasons most people do. The reason I stress my systems is to force component failure. With electronics, if it's going to fail, it's usually going to fail early in the products life. That way, I can take advantage of warranties.
 
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