AthlonXP 5 or 12V rail

[estew33]

Hi All,
I was /am under the impression, the Atlon runs off the 5 volt rail. Am I correct or not
Thanks
Ed

 

[Mark R]

It depends on the motherboard. But on recent motherboards, it is virtually always 12V.

 

[Soulkeeper]

yes the 12v is the main one for the cpu itself in most every P4 and Athlon/opteron motherboard since the slot athlon/p3's i believe, but the 5v and 3.3v are still important for video cards (overlocked especially), memory (pulls quite a bit if you have 512 or 1024MB of the junk overclocked, watch out!), sound/nic/addon cards, etc.

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[ponyo]

Depends on the motherboard. Older ones like Epox 8RDA+ runs on 5v. Abit NF7-S runs on 12v. Epox changed it to 12v for 8RDA3+. Most newer ones run on 12v.