what would happen if i droped the vcore lower than spec?

[MajD]

What would it do?
Would it be cooler? Would I be able to up the FSB and achive faster external clock, and stability?
or would it just screw the crap out of it?

[Tachyon]

Depending on how far below default you tried to set the vCore, best guess is that it wouldn't POST. Now, if you were to set the CPU clock multiplier lower you should get more out of the FSB :)

[Tachyon]

Oops...just realized we're talking Intel here...and you can't change the CPU clock...

[MajD]

I'm using a celeron 400, would it simply not post? The defult is 2.0 (though in sandra 2001 it goes up to 2.06). No other probs would arise?

[Tachyon]

That should be the extent of it. Just make sure you can up the vCore when you reach a point where it won't POST. To know if that voltage will really work for you, you'll need to test it on all the apps you run...you may find that one or more of them don't like the lower voltage even if Windoze will boot properly.

[MajD]

What about conducting a burn-in test with sandra? Would that be suficent to determine system stability?
I was thinking about droping it to 1.9x. Aren't the celeron II set at a lower vcore?

[Tachyon]

Benchmarks and "burn-in" utilities are great (and very useful) as an indicator but real world apps don't live in a benchmark world. You can do the burn-in and never have a real world problem, or you may have to tweak a little more for some thing(s). :)