I might have missed an article or a post about this so please forgive me if I have.
I am about to get a new intel rig and I need to know if I do the burn in at stock timings or do I find a stable overclock and then do the burn in?
I have always run a while at stock settings just to make sure that eveything works. You know, fold for a couple of days. Then I start trying to push it.
I have always run a while at stock settings just to make sure that eveything works. You know, fold for a couple of days. Then I start trying to push it.
That's pretty much how I do it. Stock voltage and stock fsb/htt for the first night then I bump it 1 mhz at a time each night for about 2 weeks. Works for me and you can notice the temps start to drop within the first week usually.
Thanks for the info guys I really appreciate it. I feel like a kid at Christmas time awaiting my new presents. I've always had amd cpus so this new Intel rig should be interesting. I finally broke down and dropped a grand on it. I hope I won't be regretting this purchase when AMD's 4 X 4 comes out. Oh well thats the price you pay when upgrading I guess. The next best thing is just around the corner.
Here's hoping the graphics card lasts me until the second generation of DX10 cards is out. I went with a neutered x1900xt 256 mb version. Any thoughts on the video card? Would a 7950gt would have been better? They were about the same price.
Once again thanks for the help guys.
Heh, that video card should be just fine for the time being. I'm still managing on a 256MB X800 Pro AGP
As for the burn-in, I usually do what everyone else is saying, and just run the hell out of my computer on stock speeds for about a week before trying to tweak it. Then I like to sort-of ramp up gradually to find a good speed that works well for me and is stable. It can be a long, aggravating process at times, but usually the rewards are worth it.
For burn in I usually start stock - give it 12 hours of Prime, then just drop the CPU voltage by the smallest increment then do it again, keep doing this till it fails - move 1 increment up again (last completed voltage) do a 24 hour prime run. Then you can set stock voltage again - and gradually start overclocking. You can repeat this till you get no more benefit.
Also you can try overclocking with lower voltage - basically anything you can think of to get more with less heat.
Hopefully after everthing you find a better overclock running stock voltage - keeping the CPU cool. And when you add more voltage you get more than you did.
My Opty 170 runs at 1.35 (stock) at 2.7Ghz - 24/7 now.
You can do exactly the same for memory, use memtest to stress it though.
Patience is required as you mentioned but the rewards are worth it.
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Here's hoping the graphics card lasts me until the second generation of DX10 cards is out. I went with a neutered x1900xt 256 mb version. Any thoughts on the video card? Would a 7950gt would have been better? They were about the same price.
Once again thanks for the help guys.
As for the burn-in, I usually do what everyone else is saying, and just run the hell out of my computer on stock speeds for about a week before trying to tweak it. Then I like to sort-of ramp up gradually to find a good speed that works well for me and is stable. It can be a long, aggravating process at times, but usually the rewards are worth it.
Also you can try overclocking with lower voltage - basically anything you can think of to get more with less heat.
Hopefully after everthing you find a better overclock running stock voltage - keeping the CPU cool. And when you add more voltage you get more than you did.
My Opty 170 runs at 1.35 (stock) at 2.7Ghz - 24/7 now.
You can do exactly the same for memory, use memtest to stress it though.
Patience is required as you mentioned but the rewards are worth it.