Stress Testing CPU (1.8A NW)

[Drysdale]

I recently put together a 1.8A on Asus P4B266-C (who hasn't, right) and once I got it up and running at spec (for now), I've been stress testing using Prime 95's torture test. It's been running for about 48 hours now non-stop, and it hasn't failed yet. Is this doing anything good/bad for the CPU, or am I just wasting my time? I don't know enough about CPU burn-in to know if stress testing makes any difference. Can I assume after 2 days and no errors that this system is stable at spec and I can now move on to trying some overclocking?

Drysdale

 

[jiffylube1024]

48 hours is kind of overkill. It apparently works, so you can quit stressing the CPU so much. It shouldn't have too much of a negative effect on the CPU, but transistors are like brain cells, once they die, they don't grow back (come to think of it, they're very analogous to brain cells!).