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Volt modding a slocket or Slot 1 board to produce a lower voltage

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nixie

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Basically the title says it all. I have a spare tualatin processor laying aroung that I would like to put into my server's slot 1 board. I have a slocket that alows me to contol the VID pins to the motherboard but this will only allow me to get the voltage down to a minimum of 1.7 V (which is what the motherboard spec says its voltage regulator supports). Is there a way for me to mod either the board or the slocket to produce a lower voltage. I'm guessing that there should be, its just the method I'm not sure of.

I understand the principle of how increase's in voltage are made (as shown in the sticky) and am guessing that to reduce the voltage I need to do the inverse, i.e increase the value of R2.

Is this correct? I assume that by replacing the resistor with a variable resistor I could can easy control over the voltage.


Or could I disconnect all the VCC pins on the slocket from the motherboard and provided an external power supply direct to the chip?
 
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