K6-2 Voltage

[Demon-Xanth]

I have a 500K6-2 that is running at 2.2V, it won't pull 550 at stock voltage, what is the voltage range that I can take this CPU safely?

 

[Hanky]

It's specified for a maximum of 2.3V by AMD, so that's definitely ok. If you want to go higher, I think you can even try 2.4V without more cooling than for 2.3V. I wouldn't go higher than 2.5V in the long term without watercooling, peltier, removing the metal plate or something special that. Anyway, o/c-ing this chip doesn't yield a noticeable performance boost, so I think it's not worth the effort.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

A big concern is that at stock speed I'm having stability issues and would like to rule the CPU out of the equation. I'm just making sure that I can pop the voltage up 0.1 and not hurt anything.

Edit: check Angel in my systems profile to see why I'm having stability issues

 

[shiznut123]

My old k6-2 500 system was at 550 with 2.3v. Its fine, try it.

 

[Hanky]

Demon-Xanth,

do you mean you have stability problems even @ 500 MHz when nothing is overclocked?

 

[radman3d2]

2.3 volts is fine and even 2.4 volts is too. But if you go to 2.5 volts you may need extra cooling. If you can monitor the temp. at that voltage I would.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Well, it wasn't. But it's a tight case w/ alot of components and I wanted to verify that it wasn't the CPU being on edge

 

[CraigRT]

for CPU's over 2V I say it's generally a rule to not go over .3V
for processors under 2V like my PIII 700 I won't push it past 1.85V
(stock 1.65)