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OHHH NO! Gigabyte GA-8IRX has no voltage manipulation:(

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odog

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i bought the 8IRX based on anands stellar review of the 8IRXP(lan and ATA133 RAID)..... and now have come to find out that the 8IRX has no option to increase the voltage to the CPU... you can raise both the DIMM voltage and the AGP voltage but not the CPU voltages(the most important IMHO)

this has left me in a bad perdictament, having a P4 1.6A that does 2230mhz @ default voltage.. which is a great overclock... also considering that the chips running @ 40C... (bear in mind i do have an Alpha PAL8942)

should i just be satisfied, or should pimp this mobo and get another with voltage to truely see the limits of this chip.
 


<< OHHH NO! Gigabyte GA-8IRX has no voltage manipulation🙁 >>



And yet the world somehow mysteriously keeps turning! hehehe 🙂 j/k

If you decide to pimp it LMK.
 
well anand claimed it was

<< The P4 Titan DDR offers everything the MSI 845 Ultra does plus adds onboard LAN and a more user friendly BIOS setup with more voltage adjustment options as well as Gigabyte's Dual BIOS feature. >>

more voltage adjustment options would mean more voltage adjustment riiiight?
 
don't listen to anand, listen ot the manufacturer's online manual and system info page on their product...

pimp it, pick up a way cheaper MSI 645 Ultra (~$75) with 1mhz increments and cpu voltage tweaks...it also performs better than the i845DDR.

or don't do that and just keep it - cuz running at stock voltage over 2.2GHz is sweet...in fact, u're lucky - i wouldn't run it over stock too much...i mean, are u really going to notice a difference between 2.23ghz and 2.4ghz?
 
its less that i'm unsatisfied and more that i'm disapointed knowing this chip can go so much farther......


2.2ghz on stock voltage means 2.4ghz+ with voltage bump maybe even 2.5ghz who knows?




<< are u really going to notice a difference between 2.23ghz and 2.4ghz? >>

i'm struggling to notice the difference between my tbird 1.3 and the p4 2.2.... hehe and when was this ever about noticing a difference.... i'm just about have the fastest box on the block.
 


<< don't listen to anand, listen ot the manufacturer's online manual and system info page on their product... >>



That, or learn how to read.. Anand reviewed the 8irxp, which does have all of the v-core tweaks.. and you bought the 8irx, which doesn't. Don't bag Anand for your mistake.

-CH2
 
i'm not bagging anyone....


and voltage manipulation isn't something generally removed from a board lacking advanced features.... those board are identical minus the lan, USB2.0 , and the ATA133 raid chip...... if i could solder extremely well and had the chips i could effectively turned a 8IRX into a 8IRXP...

name another board series where the more advanced board has voltage and the and the standard non raid/lan/raid doesn't have the same overclocking features?

 
just took a look.... i feel like an idiot now....


i'd like to apologize to anand.... and anyone else i offended...


hopefully they will release an updated bios to allow overclocking via the this board...
 
i just seems strange that they would allow AGP and DDR overclock with voltage assitance but withhold voltage to the CPU?
 


<< name another board series where the more advanced board has voltage and the and the standard non raid/lan/raid doesn't have the same overclocking features? >>



You found out the hard way.. This action is standard fair for Giga-Byte.. you want all the goodies? Better get the top of the line. Most of the lower end boards end up going to oems and system builders. Asus has similar tactics.. I believe that the original A7N266 lacked all the tweaking options of the higher end A7N266-C and A7N266-E.

CH2
 
E-Phex. Why don't you do the wire trick? My first post in this thread has a link. You can increase you voltage up to 1.85 volts with this trick. But of course, be very carefull.
 
hmm.... not for the faint of heart.... might try that.... but will most likely get an MSI board.....

i'm just bent gigabyte took this feature out..... as i'm sure it could take a skilled programmer 15 minutes to put voltage control back into the 8IRX bios....


i'm gonna at least wait till the artic alumina gets "set" then see if i can overclock a little more......


one thing i know for sure.... i've got one hell of a chip😀.... and one POS mobo🙁
 
of course there's one final option - also not for the faint of heart.

flash your board w/ the latest 8IRXP bios.

of course the MSI board is better altogether, especially since u can't use 3.3v AGP cards w/ the i845 chipset (right?).
 
Do the voltage mod (search anand forums under username benjamat for details)

The board will reach 2.4Ghz comfortably at only 1.7v
 
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