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Tabula Rasa Semantics, in Microprocessor Burn-in

Liquid3D, our newest Madshrimp, has finished writing an immense article on Microprocessor development and Burn-in, also rectifying certain errors made in his previous editorial, in Part 1 we see him taking a look at the low/high end Tbreds and also the latest P4 incarnation at 800Mhz FSB.

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"In my last article; "AMD Ingots, sliced TBread, with the crusts cut off" I proposed a hypothesis which purported to explain the propensity for "low speed" Thoroughbred-B's (1700 - 2100) to attain extraordinarily high clock-speeds. Athlon 1700's were achieving speeds as high as 2.7GHz on air cooling and minimal voltages. And in a few cases the coveted "double overclock" was achieved via LN2, and phase-change. Unfortunately, several of the premises on which my theory rested were incorrect. Here is correct version based on true facts, many hours and days of research has gone into this article. I hope you like it!"

Read the 1st part of the Editorial here

Hi, I just want to note an error in the article, the lowyat website and the also the althon tbred guide actually move to another server and did not "completely remove from the net"

the new location of is at www.lowyat.net

thank you

The type is too small and hard to read with that black background, *grr* but good article man. Had to lower Desktop Res to 800x600 just to read tho :P

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The type is too small and hard to read with that black background, *grr* but good article man. Had to lower Desktop Res to 800x600 just to read tho :P

Start => accessoires => accessibility => accessibility wizard
"change my font to extra large" ;p

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Originally posted by RichBa5tard

Start => accessoires => accessibility => accessibility wizard
"change my font to extra large" ;p

HAHAHA ;)

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Originally posted by Bosw8er

HAHAHA ;)

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HAHAHA, did you even try that?
doesn't work :^D (long live CSS)

at 1152x864 ... works in the forums ... not on the article apparently

:(

the last & final part has been published, an immense efford from our friend Liquid3D
http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=88

great writing style, very interesting read!

Don't you just hate websites where you can't over-ride the font size!?!?!!?!?

Good article. Interesting read!

the downside to CSS :/

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HAHAHA ;)

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HAHAHA ;)

Hold down 'Ctrl' and scroll your mousewheel

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I suppose a certain amount of "burn-in" could be concievably helpful in lowering core temperatures (one symptom commonly mentioned by adherents of burn-in) with thermal interface material that only becomes optimally conductive after it has passed a specific temperature point.
Those who used a bit too much thermal compound for instance, could have the excess more evenly arranged on the surface of the die as a result of reduced viscosity concomitant with increased temperature. Slight expansion of the thermal compound followed by reduced viscosity at temperature could result in some compounnd being squeezed off of the die, the heatspreader, or even a processor hotspot, resulting in something closer to a monolayer.

Certainly the traces in the chip itself are not becoming more conductive as a function of being overvolted, but there are a considerable amount of variables in the system outside of the processor core itself, which undeniably is not going to get permanently better as a result of additional applied voltage.