Help! VCore too high.

[Jak]

Hi, I have very recently (i.e. yesterday) bought a new cpu and mother board. (MOBO: EpoX 8K7A+ and AMD Athlon 1.4ghz 266fsb) now according to AMD the vcore is suppoed to run at 1.75v, well in the bios it says its running at 1.81v, now i know that its not a huge difference but the core temp is 51oC and thats when the computer isnt even doing much. the vcore ajust on the motherboard is set to +0.0 so i relly dont get why its set to high. and i really dont have a clue how to set it back down again. if anyone can help i would be very greatfull.

 

[Placid]

Same setup here same vcore reading.
Everything set to default.
Guess you will just have to live with it or mess with setting the cpu bridges so the board thinks the vcore should be lower.
My temps are 46c idle 48c load today.
Its cooler today with a room temp of 75f.

 

[Jak]

Would71 (Aug 04, 2001 01:29 p.m.):
You may need to do the BIOS mod for cooling on idle. I did for mine (I think you have to for all 760-based boards.. not sure) and the idle temps dropped noticeably. 1.75 vs. 1.81 really isn't much of a difference, as you said. Sometimes I get the feeling that these things don't always read properly, as I've had such varied readings both on this board and my last two boards. (both Abit, KT7 and KT7A)

ok, so how would i go about doing ths mod? or is it just some setting in the BIOS i need to change? please help. cheers for all your help so far, both of you. is appreciated.

 

[TranceBear]

This is it.

http://forums.overclockers.ws/forums/UltraBoard.cgi?action=Read&BID=2&TID=25948&SID=142144

 

[Jak]

cheers TraceBear. i will try to go through that and do it. thanks again to everyone. much appreciated

 

[Jak]

ok, before i do this what are these "EPoX issues"? i cant find a link anywhere regarding this. can you let me know because i dont want this to all go wrong. thanks again.

 

[Cowtown]

My Athlon 1.133 at either 1.133 and 1.333 always reported that it was running at 1.805 to 1.81 and I didn't change it at all, this is just what the ASUS is providing. In fact, if I try changing the jumpers to set it to 1.85 so I can get this thing to run @ 1.4 the system won't post, doesn't like 1.85 for some reason. Don't know if it's anything to worry about myself.

Shawn