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- Jul 3, 2001
I just finished running a 5v line from the power supply to the 2 5v mosfets on the top of my a7v8x as described in Hoot's article. Here are some of the results that I have seen, more testing is in order and I will add farther results as I get them.
All of the voltage and temp values were taken from MBM5 unless specified to have come from the BIOS readings.
Prior to the mod:
- vcore was at 1.65v
- 5v was reading around 4.92 idle, and dropping as low as 4.78-4.82 full load.
- Temps were around 42c idle, 51c load
After the mod:
- vcore still at 1.65v
- 5v reads 4.99v in the bios, temps are 41c in bios.
- After booting MBM5 started reading exceedingly high temps, 53c climbing eventually to 57c
- 5v reads 4.95 idle, 4.87 load
Rebooted again and went directly into the bios, temp reading was 42c, I'm not sure what is happening but I wonder if either the bios or MBM5 is misreading the temp sensor. But I dropped the vcore to 1.6v and was able to boot and stay stable so far while maintaining my current overclock of 166fsb x 12.5 which was not possible before, but the idle temp is really high at 52c as per MBM5's readings.
Questions to answer:
- What could be causing the temp jump? is the cpu just receiving more juice or something, or is there a probability that MBM5 is going kookoo after the mod.
- The 5v readings are good in the bios, but low on boot through MBM5's readings. I am assuming this is due to sub par performance of the power supply, are there any other actions I can take to rectify this? I also have another week 250w PS that I could use to set up a dual PS system, what devices / fans / ect should I re-route to that PS if I do install it?
Conclusion:
I am going to run more stress tests to get temp/volt readings, and maybe install asus probe to try different software and see if it reads temps/volts different.
All of the voltage and temp values were taken from MBM5 unless specified to have come from the BIOS readings.
Prior to the mod:
- vcore was at 1.65v
- 5v was reading around 4.92 idle, and dropping as low as 4.78-4.82 full load.
- Temps were around 42c idle, 51c load
After the mod:
- vcore still at 1.65v
- 5v reads 4.99v in the bios, temps are 41c in bios.
- After booting MBM5 started reading exceedingly high temps, 53c climbing eventually to 57c
- 5v reads 4.95 idle, 4.87 load
Rebooted again and went directly into the bios, temp reading was 42c, I'm not sure what is happening but I wonder if either the bios or MBM5 is misreading the temp sensor. But I dropped the vcore to 1.6v and was able to boot and stay stable so far while maintaining my current overclock of 166fsb x 12.5 which was not possible before, but the idle temp is really high at 52c as per MBM5's readings.
Questions to answer:
- What could be causing the temp jump? is the cpu just receiving more juice or something, or is there a probability that MBM5 is going kookoo after the mod.
- The 5v readings are good in the bios, but low on boot through MBM5's readings. I am assuming this is due to sub par performance of the power supply, are there any other actions I can take to rectify this? I also have another week 250w PS that I could use to set up a dual PS system, what devices / fans / ect should I re-route to that PS if I do install it?
Conclusion:
I am going to run more stress tests to get temp/volt readings, and maybe install asus probe to try different software and see if it reads temps/volts different.