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#1 2005-08-30 15:51:38

poetofnumbers
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From: Kansas, United States
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cpu burn-in

I have just finished assembling a new computer.  In fact, it is the first one which I put together.  I am looking for recommendations on a cpu burn-in program.  There doesn't appear to be one in AUR or the standard repositories.


Sweet, now I can play with myself.

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#2 2005-08-30 16:04:35

phrakture
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Re: cpu burn-in

poetofnumbers wrote:

I have just finished assembling a new computer.  In fact, it is the first one which I put together.  I am looking for recommendations on a cpu burn-in program.  There doesn't appear to be one in AUR or the standard repositories.

I'm not really sure what you mean? Are you looking for benchmarks?

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#3 2005-08-30 16:48:12

T-Dawg
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Re: cpu burn-in

I think he's talking about programming the CPU....

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#4 2005-08-30 17:38:37

paranoos
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Re: cpu burn-in

actually, i think he's talking about a program to heat up the cpu. i've read about some voodoo that says if you run your cpu very hot for a long while, it will run faster.

it reminds me too much about the hocus-pocus "audiophiles" out there.

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#5 2005-08-30 18:00:43

phrakture
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Re: cpu burn-in

paranoos wrote:

actually, i think he's talking about a program to heat up the cpu. i've read about some voodoo that says if you run your cpu very hot for a long while, it will run faster.

Hmmm if that's the case

#!/bin/bash
while true; do
   dmesg > /dev/null
done

that should loop sufficiently fast enough, and do enough operations to shoot CPU usage to 90-100%

Just do "sleep 600 && killall oddscript" so it runs for 10 minutes....

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#6 2005-08-30 18:17:56

T-Dawg
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Re: cpu burn-in

phrakture wrote:
paranoos wrote:

actually, i think he's talking about a program to heat up the cpu. i've read about some voodoo that says if you run your cpu very hot for a long while, it will run faster.

Hmmm if that's the case

#!/bin/bash
while true; do
   dmesg > /dev/null
done

that should loop sufficiently fast enough, and do enough operations to shoot CPU usage to 90-100%

Just do "sleep 600 && killall oddscript" so it runs for 10 minutes....


ahahahah! 8)

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#7 2005-08-30 20:59:15

Cotton
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From: Cornwall, UK
Registered: 2004-09-17
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Re: cpu burn-in

You could always install foldingathome and do something useful with all those cpu cycles wink

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#8 2005-08-30 21:20:35

iBertus
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Registered: 2004-11-04
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Re: cpu burn-in

I think he wants to test and see if everything is alright by putting the system under load. As someone else said, a distributed computing program or game should work just fine.

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#9 2005-08-30 21:54:23

Karma XXL
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From: Budapest, Hungary
Registered: 2005-06-13
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Re: cpu burn-in

You could check this one out as well: CPU Burn-in


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