Does voltage matter?

[biassj]

Does voltage setting on your cpu affect your speeds and temps?

I'm running at 1ghz @ around 1.75, it seems to work at lower voltage settings.

 

[Wega!]

Yes voltage does matter. I Can only get my Duron to run [email protected], if i upper the voltage to0 the max (1.85V) I can run at 988MHz (Currently, I'm struggling to get the gig with some better cooling). But higher voltage does also gives higher temp's, so keep an eye on them when u upper the volt.
U can't say that the Vcore does affect ur speeds, but it affects ur ability to run ur comp at higher speeds.

 

[lightning]

err.....i thought we need to increase the Vcore to run stable at higher speed? i got my PIII-750@960, and it need to set the Vcore to 1.90(mobo monitor said 1.94) to run stable. if not it will crash when i run sisoft sandra burn in. is that right? or i'm wrong?

 

[Allan Nielsen]

lightning (Apr 17, 2001 11:29 a.m.):
err.....i thought we need to increase the Vcore to run stable at higher speed? i got my PIII-750@960, and it need to set the Vcore to 1.90(mobo monitor said 1.94) to run stable. if not it will crash when i run sisoft sandra burn in. is that right? or i'm wrong?

You are correct lightning - the higher the voltage, the higher the overclock (in most cases)! I've got my P3-700 set to 1.75V now, so it runs stable @966MHz. As Walter says, temps will also increase, so it would be important to get some good cooling (ie. NOT using the stock hsf)

 

[biassj]

default is 850mhz
I seem to be running @ 133 X 7.5(998) fine at a lower voltage, it is stable.