cpu burn-in

poetofnumbers · 2005-08-30 15:51:38

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.

phrakture · 2005-08-30 16:04:35

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?

T-Dawg · 2005-08-30 16:48:12

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

paranoos · 2005-08-30 17:38:37

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.

phrakture · 2005-08-30 18:00:43

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....

T-Dawg · 2005-08-30 18:17:56

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)

Cotton · 2005-08-30 20:59:15

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

iBertus · 2005-08-30 21:20:35

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.

Karma XXL · 2005-08-30 21:54:23

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

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