Any motherboards that don't require vmods

[phlow]

Are there any abit or asus motherboards that work like their supposed to, meaning they don't vdroop when under a heavy overclock load ?.

I have a asus p5wd2-e premium motherboard, 300.00 dollar motherboard that says its for overclocking but always droops, I was unable to pencil mod it and hired someone to put a reistor on it and they fried it. *S-N Edit* We do not discuss members who cannot defend themselves.

I also have a 900.00 dollar phase change mach II GT unit but can only get 4.8 ghz out of it, kinda useless since I can get 4.2 ghz on air so with phase change I only get 600mhz overclock, hardly a 50% overclock like they advertise the mach GT as being able to do.

Any suggestions please :bang head

[Skeith]

All of them will droop, its not because they dont work like theyre supposed to its because of the type of regulator that boards use. Switching regulators are known to have their voltage collapse under load. The best bet would be to get a board with more regulation phases. This can be counted by the number of inductors, pairs of mosfets on the board etc. Most boards are 3phase, some are 4, some are 2. There is the odd board that is more.

I think the asus AN8 32 SLI delux is 6 phase. I dont know how well it works or if its a good OCer this is from what I can tell by looking at a picture. They dont specify the regulation phases in their description, which I think they should because there is a huge differance between a 2phase and a 3phases vcore stability.

[Super Nade]

You can see how many phase inductors a board has to determine the number of phases it is supplied power in.

[Grande Juan]

You can see how many phase inductors a board has to determine the number of phases it is supplied power in.

Erck why does this sentence confuse me so, must be too early. By the way Nade what happen to your front page article, I wanted to reread that.

[Clockwork_Apple]

The Asus Striker Extreme has 8 phase regulation and uses no capacitors. Should be a nice clean vcore with little vdroop.

http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=397&model=1439&modelmenu=1

[mcoleg]

P5W64 WS Pro

it actually overvolts, if anything.

there's not a whole lot of info around here on it for some reason, check xs forums for more info.

[Super Nade]

Erck why does this sentence confuse me so, must be too early. By the way Nade what happen to your front page article, I wanted to reread that.

Its up mate :)

http://overclockers.com/articles1386

[tyler_bishop]

Don't blame other people for frying your stuff. Its not there responsibility's when your asking them to do something the board was not designed to do.

GL

[Gautam]

It's worth noting that boards are designed to droop per spec from Intel. The Conroe-ready boards generally tend to have much less than droop than the older 775 boards though. 4.8GHz is still quite a respectable overclock. The chances of hitting very high percentage overclocks go down when you have a top-end CPU like yours.

[Maviryk]

Asus boards are designed to droop in order to protect the CPU, IIRC from volt modding discussions over at XSF.

If it were really a "problem", you can be sure the enginners would have added the 15cent resistor to fix it by now. Droops have existed on ASUS boards for quite a while.

Not sure about Abit boards, but I'm sure they're designed that way too.

[greenmaji]

The workstation motherboards overvolt Vcore instead of droop on load (workstation workaround for high work loads)
P5W64 Professional being the 4-PCIe version, wich happens to overclock FSB VERY well.