Fry that bird! More than 1.85V?

[z0ner]

I've got my 800MHz T-Bird running 952MHz(112*8) on my KT7-RAID, but I need 1.85V to make Prime95 happy. I was toying with 105*10, and it seemed like it was almost there, but I didn't have enough juice (Win98SE would blue screen periodically).

Has anyone played with the solder and the capacitors to get up to 2.05V?? Any recommendations at this voltage, or should I not even bother and buy a faster chip?

 

[Bartman39]

What chipset voltage??? I have a Duron 700 on the same board and it would not be stable above 900 without 1.85 (with default chipset voltage). I upped the chipset voltage to 3.5 and lowered the core to 1.75 and now run 935mhz rock solid (Uh well the wife does...) Most of the time more voltage above 1.85 creates to much heat so the chip may run better at a lower voltage... Just add a little chipset (IO voltage) but dont go above 3.5 or your ram might become a keychain...

 

[z0ner]

Thanks for the keychain advice I assume you meant the default chipset voltage to be 3.3V (and not 1.85). Unfortunately if I don't increase the CPU juice Prime95 craps out on me immediately, but I took your advice and upped the I/O voltage to 3.5V. You may have something there. I keep forgetting that the chipset is part of the I/O

P95 is definitely a torture test, and gives me the most headaches, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I've read some posts with people having 99% stable systems (with the exception of P95), but if I can't run stable with a 24hour Prime95 then the MHz goes down until I can.

 

[Bartman39]

Let us know how it works out... Uh I did a little change to avoid the confusion... sorry...

 

[hovenas]

Keychain?

 

[Pers]

just wondering what the 3.5v was??