Burn in help please

[sacha35]

Hi all hope you might be able to help, i am still running prime 95 on my system and am a bit confused as i dont no if i have reached the full burn in or not. i have an opty 165 of which runs at 2.9GHz but have lowerd this to 2.6 for genral use, i am still trying to get the volts lower but when i run prime 95 at to lower volts the system will just freeze when i put the volts back up to 1.35v it will run at 2.6GHz no problem even useing small or large FFts in place on both cores at once and 24 hour prime but if i drop it down just one place it will boot and run but when i run prime 95 again on both cores it will just freeze, have i now reached the full burn in point where i can no longer go any lower with the volts?

 

[ExstaZ]

Use another program that Prime95. Use Sisift Sandras CPU burn in or somthing else that don´t test the CPU. How long have you been burning?

If I understand you right you are trying to burn in your CPU in lower voltages than 1.35 and 289x9 HTT? Why are u using lower that standard voltages?

 

[sacha35]

Use another program that Prime95. Use Sisift Sandras CPU burn in or somthing else that don´t test the CPU. How long have you been burning?

If I understand you right you are trying to burn in your CPU in lower voltages than 1.35 and 289x9 HTT? Why are u using lower that standard voltages?

Hi i have been burnning in for about 50-60 hours now, i have been reducing the volts to try and get cooler temps and hopfully higher clocks later on.

Opteron 165 @2.907GHz, ASUS A8N32, Water cooling, 2x1g Balistix DDr500@ 3-8-3-3 @ 2.9v, single gainward 6800GT @ 470/1305

 

[boardy]

Your gonna have one hell of a long wait. Micro electronics don't "Burn In" as many people think. The only reason you would do this is if your running super cool (Phase) 24/7 like a fair few people here and the processor needs to get used to the temps.

Thats the reason we put BH5 and other RAM in the freezer then run it on the PC and back in the freezer. The heat makes the little copper bits slightly softwer and the extreme cold will move them closer together. Sounds strange but works. BTW, I used to work in micro-electronics so know this

Boardy

 

[sacha35]

Your gonna have one hell of a long wait. Micro electronics don't "Burn In" as many people think. The only reason you would do this is if your running super cool (Phase) 24/7 like a fair few people here and the processor needs to get used to the temps.

Thats the reason we put BH5 and other RAM in the freezer then run it on the PC and back in the freezer. The heat makes the little copper bits slightly softwer and the extreme cold will move them closer together. Sounds strange but works. BTW, I used to work in micro-electronics so know this

Boardy

Thanks boardy, so what you are saying is stress the ram more and put in freezer, i would think you would have to let this warm up at room temp before putting back in the pc though, correct me if i am wrong, like i said i have used both small and large FFTs and i will not fail at all even over 24 Hours at 1.35 but if i drop the volts down one place, it will just freeze rather than fail, this is burnning both cores at the same time.

Anyway thanks again boardy.

 

[Faaip De Oiad]

Is condensation never an issue when doing this??

 

[maverik-sg1]

As long as you put the ram is sealable bags and expel as much air as possible it is not an issue (some wrap a bit of cling film around the bag (I use two bags .

And yes let it warm up a little - not necessarily room temp - but dont take it out the bag until it has wamred up a little.

Helped me get 274Mhz from BH5 that was stable at 268Mhz..................... which was nice

Cheers

Mav