Any SOYO 7VCA/2 owners?? +10% Vcore adjustment...what's the point??

[Pleiades]

I have a Celeron 633 CCO stepping 1.7V default.
The SOYO SY-7VCA allows Vcore adjustment up to +10% max. With the default voltage at 1.7V, the highest I can get with the +10% is 1.84V! Duh!!
I was trying to do 950(9.5x100)@1.84V and it made it all the way to loading Windows, but crashed giving errors loading..blah..blah... One step down to 903(9.5x95) and it's working beautifully!!
I should be able to do 950 if I can bump the Vcore up to 1.9V...chances are pretty good rite? But my mobo... the voltage adjustment just doesn't make sense... max 0.14V increment?? Frankly, I'm rather disappointed now... I should have stick with ASUS, Abit or MSI...
The mobo is jumperless, can a BIOS fix give me higher voltage adjustment?? Or is it simply a hardware limitation of the board??
I love the 7VCA...but the voltage adjustment suxx!!

I was hoping to get some feedback before I contact SOYO tech support. Thanks alot!!

 

[Mr B]

This is the main reason the slot 1 mb's sell so well. You can put the chip in a slocket, and adjust the vcore with jumpers on the slocket.

And then the BIOS will pick up the higher vcore from that, and you have another + 10 % over that jumpered setting.

Sounds like a good chip, and more vcore will help. You might want to look into the old pin wiring trick for more juice. Search thru the posts in this topic...you might have to go back a page or two, but you will find an answer in here.

Also, check out the "Tips and Techniques" on the front page. I think there's stuff posted there on pin wiring.

Mr B