math problem

[Strawberrymom]

I know im good at math but i cant seem to get this one,

a motherboard has a voltage of 1.5volts and you can adjust the voltage +/- .025V increment

what is the highest voltage allowed then?

it says increment and not increments so trying to find what the highest it from what info i can gather

 

[Keego]

lol that's not a math problem. Mobo manuals suck because the people writing them up don't really understand english all that well.

 

[Strawberrymom]

well i want to get a 4BDA2+ but i need to knwo what the highest voltage the board can run at.

be nice if they actually say it in english true

 

[webnewland]

with the information that you are giving, it's impossible to get the answer. Basically you are asking if I keep adding 1 to a number, what is the highest. Perhaps change the topic to asking about the max voltage of motherboards

 

[Strawberrymom]

what is .025 of 1.5 and then you add it to 1.5 and give what the number is

 

[Strawberrymom]

ok here is more

.025 goes into 1.5 - 60 times

25/1500 = 60


so out of 1.5 volts would that make it 2.1 volts as the top voltage or would it be 1.56 volts?

trying to get this figured out thanks

 

[StageLeft]

I weep for our future. Just use a calculator and add 1.5 + .025

 

[Viper GTS]

If the default voltage is 1.5V, & you can adjust it in .025V increments, the possibilities would be something like this:

...
1.475
1.500
1.525
1.550
1.575
1.600
...

And so forth and so on.

The maximum, however, is completely unrelated to the increment by which it can be adjusted.

Viper GTS

 

[Noriaki]

huh?
25/1500 = 60? What does that have to do with anything?

0.025V is the voltage increment...

1.5V + 0.025V = 1.525V
1.525V + 0.025V = 1.55V
1.55V + 0.025V = 1.575V
1.575V + 0.025V = 1.6V
etc.

The 0.025V incrememt tells you how finely you can adjust it.

The incrememt doesn't tell you that max.

 

[FrogDog]

Wait a minute now. As far as I know, and maybe I'm wrong, no amount of math is going to help you here. The max voltage for the mobo should be stated in the manual or maybe in your BIOS, but that's the only way to find out.

 

[Strawberrymom]

all it says in the manual is +/- .025

nothing about how high or what.

 

[StageLeft]

Why do you need to know? Assuming that your motherboard supports your new cpu (I'm guessing this is what you're doing), you need to find out what voltage the CPU needs and set the motherboard accordingly. There is a good chance that the motherboard will auto-detect the CPU's voltage anyway depending on what CPU it is. I'm sure that if you go to general hardware (because they handle that sort of thing more) and post your motherboard plus the CPU you're trying to get in it they can sort you out

 

[Strawberrymom]

I need to know cause I'm going to overclock it.