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How to "Burn-In" a newly built system?

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piromaneak

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Welp, I almost got my system altogether. Just waiting on my monitor, keyboard and mouse then I'll have everything. Now I have heard about these Prime95 and Memtest programs and what not but I'm wondering are these the best to "burn-in" a newly built system with or are these just to test certain aspects? Would a motherboard have a "burn-in" feature built-in (I have an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum)? Also, when I have the program(s) needed, what are the procedures (Specific tests, time to run for, etc.) for these programs? And what things should I look out for like problems and most importantly, when the rig can be considered stable? Help GREATLY appriciated. Thanks in advance.

-Dave
 
Run Folding@Home for Anandtech. If you can get everything working fine for 7 days 24/7 you are set !!! Then leave it on to help cure cancer...
 
Personally, I don't see how helping research diseases will stress-test my machine... I need specific burn-in programs and procedures on how to use them. Also, n0cmonkey, can you be more specific about MemTest?
 
Originally posted by: piromaneak
Personally, I don't see how helping research diseases will stress-test my machine... I need specific burn-in programs and procedures on how to use them. Also, n0cmonkey, can you be more specific about MemTest?
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Folding@home stresses the processor and memory. It'll crank that processor up to 100% usage, and pump data through the memory pretty quickly. It's a distributed number cruncher, and definitely helps stress test a machine.

memtest86 is a program that tests memory to make sure it is good. You burn it to cd, boot from the cd, and it'll test your memory. Leave it running for 8-24 hours and you're set (as long as you don't get errors).

prime95 also stresses a system, maybe a bit better than F@H.

I usually run distributed computing projects (like F@H) and use my system a bit harder than I normally do.
 
Actually most DC programs are a very good stress test/burn in test. They peg your CPU usage at 100%, and depending on the program, they use lots of RAM also.

The best "burn in" type program is Prime95's torture test. Prime95 is very sensitive to system stability. Any instability, and Prime will error out.
 
Actually do a simple search on the forums. Based on the questions you are asking you have not searched AT because there are tons of threads about this. I did the same because I built my 1st system a few weeks ago.

Since you are probably going to ask, run prime95 torture test using in-place large FFTs. I ran prime95 for 24 hours. Memtest86 you will probably want to have 20+ passes without errors.
 
Back when I used to tinker with system settings, Folding@Home used to catch stuff Prime95 wouldn't. It loads the processor a lot more, in my opinion.
 
jtoxic, if you didn't want to tell me a link you didnt have to reply... you wasted about as much time telling me to go search on google than you would have just pasting a link... I really dont understand people sometimes ugh... anyways, thanks for the replies josh and happy...
 
Originally posted by: piromaneak
jtoxic, if you didn't want to tell me a link you didnt have to reply... you wasted about as much time telling me to go search on google than you would have just pasting a link... I really dont understand people sometimes ugh... anyways, thanks for the replies josh and happy...
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Maybe he is just warning you for in the future. Cause everytime you ask the link for something so insanly simple everyone is going to tell you to google it. Get over it and learn some online etiquette.
 
Originally posted by: piromaneak
you wasted about as much time telling me to go search on google than you would have just pasting a link... I really dont understand people sometimes ugh...
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not trying to start a flame war here, I am just pointing out something maybe your not thinking about.

if alot of people (including myself) would just do a google search before posting on a basic topic, it will actually save many hundreds of anandtech readers alot of time. the readers won't have to click on topics that have been covered thousands of times.

just thought I would say something to waste more of everyone's time
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jesus jumpinjack christ get off your high horses... I simply asked for a link and you thumb your noses and tell me to search it. If you know the answer then tell someone or don't post AT ALL... real simple. Has nothing to do with etiquette... If it's etiquette you want to talk about, then don't be an snobish ass and say "Just go google it" because how I interpret that is "F off, you're too good for me, I'm not helping you"... But many people have different points of view.

...Guess I'm done talking about this subject... I'll just "Google it" and get my information elsewhere...

BTW BBock... I'm deeply crushed... I won't be able to finish building my computer without your help. Please Reconsider... (*Hint of Sarcasm*)
 
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