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well heres a topic that never gets a clear answer anywhere. i want everyones opinions on the best method of burning in a cpu for a better overclock. i already have mine
you get your brand new beautiful cpu out of its box and build your pc, install windows etc and have your fun for about an hour but in my opinion if you are serious about getting a decent overclock out of it you will restrain yourself and once its set up run prime95 for at least 24 hours straight. then after you've had at least a week through it and at least 100 hours of operation you can go for a small overclock, running prime to make sure its stable again, perhaps for 12 hours+. but after you've had your small overclock take it back to stock and give it a week or two more operation running prime95 for a few hours here and there. from here on in its basically the whole idea of dropping the voltage and forcing the computer to work. if you like you can work it up over weeks by upping the overclock and running prime again always trying to keep the voltage as low as possible and still having windows boot. prime95 will probably crash under low voltage and you may get a complete lockup but persist and keep trying to run it and eventually you should see some progress.
you get your brand new beautiful cpu out of its box and build your pc, install windows etc and have your fun for about an hour but in my opinion if you are serious about getting a decent overclock out of it you will restrain yourself and once its set up run prime95 for at least 24 hours straight. then after you've had at least a week through it and at least 100 hours of operation you can go for a small overclock, running prime to make sure its stable again, perhaps for 12 hours+. but after you've had your small overclock take it back to stock and give it a week or two more operation running prime95 for a few hours here and there. from here on in its basically the whole idea of dropping the voltage and forcing the computer to work. if you like you can work it up over weeks by upping the overclock and running prime again always trying to keep the voltage as low as possible and still having windows boot. prime95 will probably crash under low voltage and you may get a complete lockup but persist and keep trying to run it and eventually you should see some progress.