CPU Vio Voltage...?

[PlunX]

I have an MSI K7T Pro2 board and I've been wondering if changing to vio voltage from 3.3v to 3.45v will help anything.. What's the deal with this? I've never heard anyone mention it before.

 

[shiznut123]

it will probably help. my default voltage is set to 3.5v. maybe you should try it

 

[PlunX]

I've been itching to try it, but.. I never knew if it could screw up my Duron. I'll give it a try, though..

 

[DaddyG]

What's wrong with your system that you think upping the VIO might help ??

 

[PlunX]

Well, I was running at 1.035GHz for a while and everything was good at 1.85v for the core and 3.3v for the vio(?).. Suddenly, my games would start freezing and so would Windows after a while. Just wanted to try other stuff to see if I could make the system more stable.

 

[Eug]

I'd set it there anyway. Many boards come with a stock 3.5 VIO voltage anyway.

It's for the chipset, AGP, and memory.

To be honest though, I doubt it will be a big help to you.

 

[shiznut123]

it wont damage your delicate duron

 

[jimmygates]

I see most people up the vio voltage to stabilize o/c'd RAM. Highest I saw someone push it was 3.6 on ABit KT7.




-Jimbo

 

[EvilDonnyboy]

running 3.6 VIO on my P3V4X. didn't do squad difference between the board's default of 3.5.

 

[Dravic]

setting my i/o voltage to 3.5 cleared up the stability issues i was having in 3d games and benchmarck(3dmark2000).

All the geforce2's are power hungry cards that REALLY like a clean power supply from the AGP bus. the 3.5 setting should help out.