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Hello all. I had some time today to 'tweak' my 'old' A7V mainboard and I want to ask anyone who has done the same if they can tell me why these numbers are strange. System is a Duron700,256meg PC133(1 stick),ATI Rage128-AGP,NIC, 10gigHDD,ata66.
Before today I was OCed to 850 w/[email protected],FSB-100. I wanted to try to get to 1000MHz so I started with what was suppose to be 1.8 Vcore and 10.0 multiplier. Well, it booted but the Vcore showed 1.904???
The settings in the manual and those from the Asus site show the same thing-1.85 volts.
The next lowest jumper setting, which should be 1.80 shows in asusProbe as 1.856 and the next at 1.808(this is suppose to be 1.75) At 10.0 multiplier and 1.90 and 1.85 Vcore it will boot and load win98 but the next lower setting,1.80, gives me a registry repair blue screen and a lock-up. I am now at 950 MHz and 1.80 Vcore(reported by AsusProbe) and it is stable. I know you can only push these CPUs so far and I seem to have found the limit. Finally, my question is, why are these Vcore numbers so different from the manual and does anyone think running at a voltage slightly higher than the supported 1.7 is asking for trouble.
Bt the way, after installing a "blowhole" in the top of my mid-tower, the temps are steady at 46-48c.
Thanks for the help!
Before today I was OCed to 850 w/[email protected],FSB-100. I wanted to try to get to 1000MHz so I started with what was suppose to be 1.8 Vcore and 10.0 multiplier. Well, it booted but the Vcore showed 1.904???
The settings in the manual and those from the Asus site show the same thing-1.85 volts.
The next lowest jumper setting, which should be 1.80 shows in asusProbe as 1.856 and the next at 1.808(this is suppose to be 1.75) At 10.0 multiplier and 1.90 and 1.85 Vcore it will boot and load win98 but the next lower setting,1.80, gives me a registry repair blue screen and a lock-up. I am now at 950 MHz and 1.80 Vcore(reported by AsusProbe) and it is stable. I know you can only push these CPUs so far and I seem to have found the limit. Finally, my question is, why are these Vcore numbers so different from the manual and does anyone think running at a voltage slightly higher than the supported 1.7 is asking for trouble.
Bt the way, after installing a "blowhole" in the top of my mid-tower, the temps are steady at 46-48c.
Thanks for the help!
