Burning in a Celery 633

[kaoz]

I have a Celery 633 arriving in a couple of days that I am hoping to get to 950 without to much hassle. What have people found to be the best procedure for burning in new CPU's straight out of the box.

TYIA

 

[dennilfloss]

RC5 will make that cpu run at 100% capacity. It's a nice program to make obvious any instability in your system, insufficient cooling, etc... Takes less than 2 minutes to download and install if you PM me. Runs automatically and uses only spare cpu cycles. Almost never interferes with other programs, games, etc... Can be paused or stopped if interference does occur. Adds only its client window size and position to the registry so uninstalling it involves only deleting the rc5 folder. Takes only up to 2MB memory.

 

[micron]

I second RC5, you can burn in your CPU and help Team AnandTech at the same time 🙂.

 

[Peabody]

Is RC5 better than Prime95 or about the same? Prime95 sounded like it required somewhat complicated settigs to use.I've never use either one and would like to get the best or easiest to set up and use.

 

[dennilfloss]

As I said, I can have you cracking for Team AnandTech in 2 minutes. The only setting required is for you to click on a setup icon. All automatic after that. 😉

 

[BlueWeasel]

Yeah, RC5/SETI/Prime95 are all excellent burn-in programs, but I have found that UT is one of the best tests for overall system stability. With my C2 633@950, I could run RC5/SETI/Prime95 for days on end at the default (1.7v) voltage. However, the intro flyby demo in UT would not even make it one loop without crashing back to the desktop. On the other hand, I could run Q3 all day at the 1.7 voltage.

It took a voltage bump of 0.05v to 1.75v to make UT stable.

I think it is safe to say that if you can get UT to be 100% stable on your overclocked system, then all of your other games will run just fine with the overclocking.

Hope this helps . . . .

 

[Instigator]

I agree with Blue Weasel, UT is an excellent stability test. I could run my Celeron II 633 at 950 at 1.75v and everything but UT ran stable. I finally had to up it to 1.85v and she ran UT 12+ hours.

 

[jeremy806]

There is no such thing as burning in a cpu!

(Unless you just mean a stability test.)

As far as I am concerned, there is nothing to burn in. Perhaps you could burn in a motherboard though, capacitors, etc.

Good luck with that Celeron, I also run a Celeron2 OC.

jeremy806

 

[conlan]

i havent used it yet , but ive been hearing about CPU Burn @ overclockers.com.