- Nov 3, 2001
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I'm running a really small lan box, and there's just not a lot of room around there for cooling or airflow. I noticed that the cpu was running a bit hot, so I decided to try decreasing the cpu voltage a bit to see if that helped - it did (temps went from average of 50c under load to about 45c under load) and I didn't notice any stability issues (I ran the box at 100% cpu use for about an hour to see if I could make it crash).
What I'm wondering is: can I damage the CPU by decreasing the voltage? I would assume that you can only damage it by increasing it and the worst that will happen by decreasing it is that it won't boot up or be unstable, but I just decided that perhaps a second opinion was in order....
In short, does anyone know if you can damage your processor doing this? It's currently set at 1.675 volts, and I believe the standard for the processor (athlon xp 1500+) is 1.7 - think I could drop it even farther? I'm not interested in oc'ing the comp - I just want it to run stable and cool.
What I'm wondering is: can I damage the CPU by decreasing the voltage? I would assume that you can only damage it by increasing it and the worst that will happen by decreasing it is that it won't boot up or be unstable, but I just decided that perhaps a second opinion was in order....
In short, does anyone know if you can damage your processor doing this? It's currently set at 1.675 volts, and I believe the standard for the processor (athlon xp 1500+) is 1.7 - think I could drop it even farther? I'm not interested in oc'ing the comp - I just want it to run stable and cool.