Hmm... Is this possible?

[Tacoman667]

Is it possible to "Burn-in" your chipset like a CPU? I have noticed once I installed my GeForce3 that I can lower the voltage to my chipset from 3.7 to 3.5 and be even more stable. I cannot believe this. How is this possible?

 

[Nagorak]

Tacoman667 (Jun 22, 2001 08:52 p.m.):
Is it possible to "Burn-in" your chipset like a CPU? I have noticed once I installed my GeForce3 that I can lower the voltage to my chipset from 3.7 to 3.5 and be even more stable. I cannot believe this. How is this possible?

I seriously would reconsider running your chipset at 3.7v, that's REALLY pushing it. All of the components in your system including your chipset will be over volted... Probably something in your system didn't like all that extra juice, and that's why it is more stable without it.

 

[Tacoman667]

Thats the thing, I HAD to run it at 3.7 when I had my 3d prophet 2 in this sytem or I could NOT get stable at all.

 

[GOD]

my guess is that your prophet 2 was bit dodgy.

GOD...

 

[Tacoman667]

I don't know, I think this KT7A MB is a bit fishy. Check this out. I got new Crucial memory one day to replace the crappy PC133 generic in my system at the time. Same motherboard I got now, mind you. When I took out all that generic stuff and put in the crucial mem, my system booted ok at first. Then it REBOOTED by itself, and I got a popping noise like a short on the MB and the damn thing started smoking. Since then I look in my case every so often and nothing looks, smells, or feels burned at all. I cannot, for the life of me, see what the heck was burning that day. Everything seems to work just fine, as can be expected in an overclocked system. This has riddled me since then. But now it lets me down the IO voltage and still be very stable. I am so confused...

 

[Fiz]

My kt7a won't get into windows if I put the VIO past 3.3, I have had it lower, but it was unstable, the only setting I can use is 3.3!! LOL

Fiz

 

[Phil]

If you beleive in burning in working then there is no reason why it would just work on a cpu, of course 'IF'

 

[Tacoman667]

I have never burned in any CPU I've ever had. Not even the one that I use now, my 1gig TBird. I still get these high overclockable scores. Is burning in even really a good thing or does it just deteriorate the lifespan of the component faster then not?

 

[merlins_wraith]

What I have found on my system is that when you increase the I/O voltage the cpu temperature under load (or max temp) dropped by 1C per .10 I/O voltage increase upto 3.7v (3.8 and 3.9 volts shows no additional temp drop but a higher resting cpu temp). Moreover, anything below 3.3 volts and the system becomes sluggish. It also depends a great deal on your system's cooling.