Athlon XP 2400+ (266) stock running at 1.73 Vcore???!!

[blazer78]

hi, i own a gigabyte ga-7vrx mobo and an axp 2400+ 266fsb, i read on the official amd site that the 2400+ should run at 1.65 vcore , but i haven't done nething and its running at 1.73 v , is this sposed to be normal? the bios only allows me to change my voltage to +5, +10 whatever that means...

thnx for ur time.

 

[Megatomic]

Some systems incorrectly report voltage readbacks, but even more commonly systems apply voltages that are significantly different from the selected values in the BIOS. How are your temps? If they are ok then proceed along as you were. If the temps. are dangerously high you might try selecting a lower voltage and hope that it brings the applied voltage down to where it should be (thus lowering the high temp. condition).

 

[myocardia]

Blazer, that voltage is fine for an Athlon. I've been running my XP 2400 at 1.75v for a very long time now, and even raise it to 1.775, when I want to run it at 12x200.

 

[blazer78]

lol, alright, my temp under load never exceeds 60 degs celcius, but its summer here in australia and u'd get ambient temps of round 25-35 degrees , btw i'm using stock fan hehe

i'm getting around 8000 3dmarks (2k1) with this and my rad 9100, which isn't bad is it?

lol, thx for ur help, i was freaking out cuz i was running a amd cpu out of specs lol. =)

 

[Soulkeeper]

yeah update the bios
sounds like the bios thinks it's a t-bird chip

or just enter the bios and see if it lets you change it (sorry if this is redundant)
also if you have a motherboard manual it should explain everything pretty well

yeah you don't need that much voltage unless your overclocking or trying to hurt your cpu slowly for no reason
good luck

 

[blazer78]

i have the latest bios , F8b

it seems that there are only two setting that i can choose, +5.00 or +10 , i have no idea what these do, but i'm assuming they increase the vcore voltage.... not a very good thing... and yeah maybe it is detecting mine as a t-bird, but unlikely as when my comp boots up it says: Athlon XP 2400+ , XP would indicate its a t-bred right?

and i don't like the thought of decreasing my cpu's life... i need to fix this prob.

 

[blazer78]

ok, i may have solved a bit of this prob, the bios setting for my fsb is currently on 133 , but practically its 134 fsb (no idea why, i'm a newb) and thos makes my axp run at 2008mhz (should be 2k mhz) , now heres a new problem, when i change the setting to "by HW" (which is from my dip switch setting) it will be 133mhz fsb, giving me exactly or very close to 2000mhz. but when i do this my windows server 2003 refuses to detect my network card, and in the bios display there is no ethernet adapter there, (post bios screen, with info on ur comp).

its a wierd problem, but i wonder if the increase in fsb causes the abnormal voltage of my 2400+??

thx for ur time.

 

[Soulkeeper]

Originally posted by: blazer78
ok, i may have solved a bit of this prob, the bios setting for my fsb is currently on 133 , but practically its 134 fsb (no idea why, i'm a newb) and thos makes my axp run at 2008mhz (should be 2k mhz) , now heres a new problem, when i change the setting to "by HW" (which is from my dip switch setting) it will be 133mhz fsb, giving me exactly or very close to 2000mhz. but when i do this my windows server 2003 refuses to detect my network card, and in the bios display there is no ethernet adapter there, (post bios screen, with info on ur comp).

its a wierd problem, but i wonder if the increase in fsb causes the abnormal voltage of my 2400+??

thx for ur time.

no the fsb won't affect the voltage
some motherboards overclock the fsb a 1mhz or two just so they can look better in the benchmarks when they get reviewed (not a problem)

do you have the latest bios ??
do you have the motherboard manual ? (if not you can get one on their website)

i don't know what those options are in your bios, unless maybe you meant .5v and .1v increments to the vcore

i would think if you can't fix this problem a bios update would fix it (just make sure the system is stable before doing this)
also your network card is prob not being detected because the pci bus is out of spec (results from the fsb being overclocked)

 

[blazer78]

yeah i got the latest bios version f8b

this is straight from my manual on the bios settings:

Vcore Voltage
>>Normal - normal function. (default Value)
>>+5.0% - set Vcore voltage to +5.0%
>>+7.5% - set Vcore voltage to +7.5%
>>+10.0% - set Vcore voltage to +10.0%

sounds like these are o/c options, the latest bios f8b, also has the same variables. so i'm pretty much clueless bout this issue...

and there doesn't seem to be any jumpers or dipswitches that alter the vcore voltage... pretty wierd...

 

[MDE]

There aren't any options to reduce the VCORE? Like someone said before, 1.75V won't kill the chip (my 2500+ is running somewhere between 1.7-1.75V right now). If you can't reduce it, don't sweat it, take the extra voltage and put it to some use overclocking .

 

[blazer78]

lol, true, however amd won't give me any warranty if my chip dies cuz i ran it out of spec, which means voiding the warranty lol, oh well 1.73, 1.71 volts isn't that bad i spose, i'm sure 0.5 of a volt won't lower the life of my cpu significantly...

 

[MDE]

It's not your fault if the motherboard runs it at too high of a voltage, if the chip dies tell AMD to send Gigabyte the bill.

 

[TGHI]

The gigabyte 7n400 series is made of a thicker PCB than the 7NNX series - the result: higher VCORE levels (I've heard 1.71V is about the average).



TGHI