Is volt-modding worth the trouble?

SickBeast

Lifer
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Hello everyone,

I'm running an Athlon 1333 at 1575 stable...it posts as high as 1733 and I'm wondering if a volt mod would help me run at that speed stable. Right now my vcore is at 1.85. What's the highest voltage I can run without frying my chip? My motherboard is an MSI K7T Turbo if that matters.

Thanks.
 

Lizardman

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1.85 is default for an athlon right? so I would say that + 10% Vcore would still be safe so a little above 2.0

What is the highest Vcore your bios lets you set your cpu to?
 

SickBeast

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1.65 is the default for an Athlon Tbird. The highest my bios will let me go is 1.85 volts, which I am running at now. I'm going to volt mod the board, then it will let me go to 2.15 volts. I'm wondering if this is too high for my chip. I'm not running water cooling, just a really good copper hsf. Someone on another forum told me that the Athlon Tbird can be run at up to 2.50 volts without frying the chip, but I find that hard to believe...
 

Soulkeeper

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yeah i would keep it under 2.1 nomatter what cooling you got
i've modded my board and can supply up to ~2.18 which i believe is what it took to fry my chip when my voltage mod slipped off during mid operation
make sure you solder good
ohhh and don't melt any smd capacitors off
it's hard to find schematics and such low farad capacitors are hard to come by

 

SickBeast

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Cool...

Yeah I'm not too worried about frying the chip, if it's dead I'll just go get one of those 1600XP's that everyone's raving about. Thanks for the soldering advice, I never would have thought of that. :)