Undervolting dangerous?

[dropadrop]

I'm trying to get my xp1700+ to run at 1.1v, and I'm just wondering if it's completly safe. A work friend of mine said that it's generally more dangerous to undervolt then to overvolt. Anyone have any experiance in this?

[cack01]

I have never ever heard of it being dangerous to the well being of the chip. If you go too low, all that will happen is that you will have stability problems.

[wicktron]

I don't think there's a problem with undervolting. Less heat is good news for the CPU.

[dropadrop]

Ok... Here goes nothing! :)

[modenaf1]

I might try it.

[Kunaak]

I think most of use have experience with undervolting.
in a different sense.

when overclocking, sometimes the only real problem (besides cooling) is that we don't have enough voltages available to stabilize a overclock.

undervolting a CPU at stock speeds I would assume would have the same effect as a high overclock thats unstable, simply cause theres not enough voltage going to it. (and cooling for the extra voltage)

[modenaf1]

Originally posted by Kunaak
I think most of use have experience with undervolting.
in a different sense.

when overclocking, sometimes the only real problem (besides cooling) is that we don't have enough voltages available to stabilize a overclock.

undervolting a CPU at stock speeds I would assume would have the same effect as a high overclock thats unstable, simply cause theres not enough voltage going to it. (and cooling for the extra voltage)

we (or I) arent worried about stability but about permanent damage to cpu.

[Kunaak]

we (or I) arent worried about stability but about permanent damage to cpu.

I have no idea how that relate to what I said...
but although I can say I could care less if a CPU lives or dies.
the original poster of this topic is obviously worried about permanant damage to the CPU.

[modenaf1]

Originally posted by Kunaak



the original poster of this topic is obviously worried about permanant damage to the CPU.

thats what I was trying to say. I thought that you thought we were talking about stability. I apologize for not communicating correctly.

[dropadrop]

Well, the cpu seems to be dead anyway, so... :( Too bad though, it seemed like a great chip. I had it doing prime at 2.4ghz, with a very small heatsink, and 60mm papst fan. I took it home last night, and kind of misplaced the heatsink when attaching it.. I'll bring it back to work on monday, but I'm pretty sure it's dead.

[modenaf1]

Is it blackened?

If so then it is most likely fried. If it isnt you probably have a chance that maybe it isnt dead.

[dropadrop]

Nah, it's dead... My mistake really, I don't know why I put my old shim inbetween, but looking at it now, it did'nt even fit properly. I think the shim forced a small gap between the processor and heatsink, and at 17 multi it burned right away! ;) Now the only problem is that the shops don't seem to have too much dlt3c processors left, so my dually has only one processor untill I either find another one, or figure out what to do.