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"Burn in" process - Fact or Fiction?

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Ok Burn-in starting.

1.85Vcore (ouch! on the tbred!)
FSB:133.

CPU speed of 1.66Ghz.

Prime starting now.

Be back in 20 hours! 😛
 
Sorry joe... But there is nothing physical that can change on the silicon level that can IMPROVE when overclocking or overvolting a processor. (The cpu itself cannot improve when operating in spec either.)

Maybe something in your system can improve, as with the AS3 examples above... But definitely not on the semiconductors.
 
you would be the one to know. I had read somewere that it can help burn on the sub micron edges and fray
s inside the gates on the die (or something to that effect) Kinda like boring your pistions an extra .050 on your car.

your by far the most educated person on the subject I've yet talked too, and if you say there is nothing physical on the die itself that will or CAN change when subjected to higher then normal voltages. Then I'm going to assume thats the case.

I'm still going to finnish out my test, I'll let it go for another 4-6 hours but I'm not expecting any difference. My temp is only 33C under full load. I really like my SLK800 🙂


Did anything ever come from that cryo-freezing of cpu's they were playing with on the Hard forums? there was a guy that was trynig to see if taking conventional semi-conductors to the edge of absolute zero then holding them there for a while (hours/days) then slowly bringing them back up to normal temps would have a beneficial effect on performance. or at least overclock ability. He was specifically trying to see if his process could improve heat-flow on heat-sinks by realigning the atoms to a more uniform state inside the heat-sink.
 
I have gone through 20 AMD cpu's in the last two years or so. Burning in does help me, I usually use Prime95 for a few days, then have fun run games hard for a week or two. Then I notice results, not just after one or two days.
 
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