What software to use for burn in

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Nolan75

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Newbie to the burn in thing. I have read a few posts by people talking about burning in their new systems and getting better performance after the burn in period. I was wondering what programs to use and where to get them. Also if this is truly beneficial towards performance.

Thanks,

Nolan
 
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Texun

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Originally posted by: Nolan75
Newbie to the burn in thing. I have read a few posts by people talking about burning in their new systems and getting better performance after the burn in period. I was wondering what programs to use and where to get them. Also if this is truly beneficial towards performance.

Thanks,
Nolan
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BitPro from Passmark. You can crank a system down to its knees if you want. As far as improving performance, I doubt that it would, or if it did that you would be able to feel it. The objective is usually to identify weaknesses in the system but there are some who claim RAM works better after it is stressed.
 
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John P

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I dunno about burn-in, but for testing system stability I will run a 5 or more loop 3DMark2001SE and let Evolva Rolling Demo and/or Dronezmark run overnight.
 
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CurtCold

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SiSoft Sandra burn in test, or lately I've been using DF client to burn in test computers. Works great for CPU and memory, because DF is very CPU, and Ram intinsive. Found 2 bad sticks of RAM this way. Keeps your CPU at 100% load while it running, so great for temp testing. Sandra will test you whole system, dunno if it's a premier benchmakr or not, but found the faulty ram also.
 
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CovertCow

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A program that I have grown to like for burn-ins is Hot CPU Tester (http://www.7byte.com/). It stresses many parts of the CPU, memory, and peripherals. I use burn-in with that application and 3dmark. Good luck.
 
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paralazarguer

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Yeah, burn in is Bull$hit. You can run prime95 and memtest86 to really stress the system and make sure that it's stable but there's no way that "burning in" your components is going to improve performance.
 
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MarkFahey

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The only part of a rig that will improve in performance over the first 2-3 days of burn in is your application of Arctic Silver. As the thermal properties of the compound achive conduction you will see your CPU temps start to drop after 48-72 hours. The same can be said after a blind date with Pamela Anderson. After you reach conduction you will notice your body temps also drop. :D

From Arctic Silver Company
Important Reminder:
Due to the unique shape and sizes of the silver particles in Arctic Silver 3, it will take a minimum of 72 hours, and as many as 200 hours to achieve maximum particle to particle thermal conduction and for the heatsink to CPU interface to reach maximum conductivity. (This period will be longer in a system without a fan on the heatsink.) The CPU's temperature will drop as much as 2C to 5C over this "break-in" period.
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Nolan75

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Thanks fellas,

I kinda thought that the burn in stuff sounded like a crock, but I wanted to check just to make sure.

Thanks again,

Nolan
 
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