I would like to know if it is nessecary to "burn in a new processer" I am afraid it MAY burn up instead of burn in can you help please?No burn in is required. If the heat sink/fan is applied properly and the PSU is adequate it should not "burn out". Why do you ask?Because Sisoft Sandra has a CPU burn in feature is this just for stress test???Must be. It won't hurt anything but I don't see the purpose unless you're curious. I am also thinking about overclocking my 2.4 P4 processor I have a 480 watt power supply so i have the juice for itI guess you can check it before and after you kill it.

I personally do not overclock things and don't recommend it.I don't intend to increase more that 10% And I will keek an eye on the core temp.If the temp runs too high I will turn it back. I suspect I got a higher CLOCKED processor that it was sent as because it says I have hyperthreading on it but it in disabled. Thanks for all your help!!!!Good luck and let us know. Overclocking is always a possibility but it is not a recommended practice.

Why?

Because the design engineers make a processor with a MAXIMUM rated capacity, then it is tested.

To add reliability under all CONDITIONS including variations in local voltage the processor is deliberately set at a lower SPEED than it is capable of.

What is happening here is this.

To make a reliable processor to run at 3.0 GHz the design engineers know that it has to be designed to run over that speed and then reduce the speed to a reasonable figure so that it is not running at its maximum all the time.

The same is true of car engines. You can take a high performance car engine and make it perform even more for racing, just in order to win. If it blows up they just fit another engine.

If your processor blows up all you will have proved is that you knew how to blow it up by overclocking it. This is not a good idea.

Better to leave it as it is and see if there are other things you can do with your system to make it perform better such as adding more RAM and doing good maintenance.

So overpowering and overspeeding are not good engineering principles.

Overclocking is not a good idea, especially as you don't have to.

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