Duron temps, and overclocking stuff

[trueimage]

A few questions:

Anyone know what "CPU Vio Select" is in my bios? the choices are 3.3v and 3.45v

My duron 600 is stable at 1000 at 1.775v (reported as 1001 and 1.82 in MBM 5) and the temperature is reporting at 33C, i know this is wrong, i don't have a temp probe right on my cpu. How far off is this would you guess? i am using an Alpha PAL6035 and room temp is around 19C (cool).

I am also trying to maybe push the chip to 1050 or higher, but i get "winlogon.exe" errors on win2k boot even at 1.8v ... that is the highest setting. What is the newest / best bios update for the MSI K7T Pro2-A ?

Thanks 😉

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Temps are being under-read by a tad, probably around 6C lower than actual core temp.

CPU Vio Select is voltage for AGP cards, ram, and other subsystems.



Mike

 

[trueimage]

so, i should bump up the vio when? or never?

 

[Mikewarrior2]

You can... it sometimes helps stabilize your Ram overclocks. But if you don't need it, i would personally leave it off.


Mike

 

[Renob]

crank you volts up to max on your cpu and i bet you can reach 1050

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Check my sig 😀.

It goes beyond normal temps, or "+ - a few degrees"

Socket-thermistors are correct for where they measure, but the problem is, where they measure is only a fraction of the core temp. Which is why there is massive compression(2.5-6x temp change compression) when taking temps on a socket-thermistor setup.

Then you have the cases, like last week, where a guy on this bbs had temps that were being read 17C too low. So accuracy is still a concern, since the average "off" is about 10-12C.


Mike