Hi,
At 12:24 AM 1/13/99 -0800, Leu Enterprises Unlimited wrote:
On one CPU, after two days worth of burn-in, the time required to
complete 100 iterations on the stock number went down, as I would expect.
On a second CPU, the time actually *increased*. From 1 day, 18 hours,
and 55 minutes, to 1d
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, George Woltman wrote:
At 12:24 AM 1/13/99 -0800, Leu Enterprises Unlimited wrote:
On one CPU, after two days worth of burn-in, the time required to
complete 100 iterations on the stock number went down, as I would expect.
On a second CPU, the time actually *increased*.
To me at least, the first part is obvious. As temperature goes up, so does
resistance. The higher resistance requires a greater potential difference
to send an adequeate(sp?) amount of current throught the processor.
Without cooling, I would imagine the chip would eventually melt down. With
To my knowledge, the effect on performance of burn-in has not really
been widely discussed or explored; at least not on any of the main
overclocking forums which I am aware of.
Which is partly why I raised the question.
Some things are known to happen; and I have observed them myself. First,
Some things are known to happen; and I have observed them myself. First,
the amount of voltage required to work at a given speed decreases.
Secondly, the odds of the chip working at a higher speed increases.
To me at least, the first part is obvious. As temperature goes up, so does
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 14 13:25:19 1999
To: Leu Enterprises Unlimited [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mersenne: mprime for QA or performance?
Some things are known to happen; and I have observed them myself. First,
the amount of voltage required
This brings up an interesting question (Well at least to me it is). I
notice that you refer to the iteration time "going down" as an expected
event. Are you saying that a new CPU is expect to get faster (If ever so
slightly) after an initial "Burn in" time??? Perhaps that is a bit of
common
