chung writes:

All Ears wrote:


To start with, I would say that it is pretty much proven that many
microprocessors will operate faster after some hundred hours of burn-in.

Proven? Care to provide reference to a technical paper? If chips run
faster after burn-in, wouldn't you expect the semiconductor companies to
research this phenomenon to try to take advantage of it? Has anyone
heard from Intel or AMD about CPU burn-in?

Well, I think it's fairly obvious that among the ones that
haven't burnt out after "some hundred hours of burn-in" are
the ones that can be run faster ;-)

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Jón Fairbairn