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Stress Testing CPU (1.8A NW)

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Drysdale

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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
 
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!).
 
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