Motherboard burn-in??

[Newton]

I am building a PC and someone asked me about what I was planning on doing about the motherboard burn-in. After I gave him the deer caught in the headlights look I came hear to see what he was talking about. I am not planning on overclockling, just plain old computer building. I did not see anything on the How-To or in any of the posts.

Thanks in advance!

 

[mpjesse]

That's because people don't do that anymore. A burn in is sort of like a test to make sure everything works like it's supposed to. Now-a-days it's so easy to diagnose problems (comparitively speaking) that the term "burn in" is sort of faded. Don't worry about it =)

-MP Jesse

 

[Arrow]

Just turn everything on and use your computer. If there are any major problems, you'd probably find them not very long.

Rob
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[Keiki646]

You can run into problems increasing motherboard bus speed, as well. Most Intel motherboards, for example. simply don't support clock speed other than the standard 533MHz or 800MHz settings. Newer Intel motherboards have a "burn-in" feature that allows you to increase the default processor bus speed(and also speed of the processor core) by up to 4%. That is relatively mild, but easily achievable with most chips you might have. Most other brans of motherboards allow changing the bus speeds by even greater amounts. That is what Burn-In mode really is