Core Voltage on duron 700 and KT7-R

[Quaggoth]

I have oc'd my 700 to 900 @ 1.725V. I also turned the 3.3V Core voltage (Or is that the I/O, anyway)to 3.4V. Is this a bad thing? The chip runs a 3d acc. screen saver called VRTidal Forces for hours at 109F. If I add winamp it moves to 111-113F and that's as high as it gets. I can run it at 1000+ at 1.8V, but It doesn't seem to make any games run NOTICABLY faster so I don't. I am just curious as to whether or not setting the I/O to 3.4 is a bad thing. It seems stable.

 

[Tonec]

Setting the I/O to 3.4 is usually only necessary if your vid card needs more power. Not a signifcant risk though, some of the past abit bios updates had I/0 at 3.5 default.

 

[Quaggoth]

Soooooo, the I/O voltage doesn't affect the processor at all? other stuff on the 3.3Vcircuit? like the memory, the PCI Bus, the Chipset (N. and S. bridge), but not the processor at all? OR, if it does, are there any benifits to having it at 3.4? I can't remember now why I set it to that though. If I set it to 3.4, would that help to OC the vid Mem a bit more (With proper cooling of course)? Will my Memory run more or less stable at 3.4? So many questions Thanks for the reply.