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I could post this at "motherboards," but the issue hinges on over-clocking with voltage tweaks.
For want of something more current, I'm using a 680i Striker Extreme (ASUS) motherboard.
And as we all know, the ASUS User-Manual that comes with any and all of their motherboards is useful, adequate, but lacking sufficient detail that for some question, users resort to sources that are "unofficial," forum-posts, and guides that can be general to a chipset or an entire generation of processors and memory.
The Striker, and most of the newer high-end boards, provide manual adjustment BIOS features for things like:
CPU_VTT (or _FSB)
NB_Core
SB_Core
for nVidia: 1.2V_HT
Are there any recommended "safe-maximum" limits on these voltage settings? For ASUS, you know that even the best advice from within the company posted at their web-site is annoyingly short on grammar, syntax and English usage. But you'd think they'd provide guidelines . . . . somewhere.
What's the skinny about how far to push these voltages? My best source of information comes from people who've pushed them "so far" or "that far" -- as opposed to pushing them "this far and had to RMA, but [ASUS/Gigabyte/[company]] said -- 'no cigar.'"
For want of something more current, I'm using a 680i Striker Extreme (ASUS) motherboard.
And as we all know, the ASUS User-Manual that comes with any and all of their motherboards is useful, adequate, but lacking sufficient detail that for some question, users resort to sources that are "unofficial," forum-posts, and guides that can be general to a chipset or an entire generation of processors and memory.
The Striker, and most of the newer high-end boards, provide manual adjustment BIOS features for things like:
CPU_VTT (or _FSB)
NB_Core
SB_Core
for nVidia: 1.2V_HT
Are there any recommended "safe-maximum" limits on these voltage settings? For ASUS, you know that even the best advice from within the company posted at their web-site is annoyingly short on grammar, syntax and English usage. But you'd think they'd provide guidelines . . . . somewhere.
What's the skinny about how far to push these voltages? My best source of information comes from people who've pushed them "so far" or "that far" -- as opposed to pushing them "this far and had to RMA, but [ASUS/Gigabyte/[company]] said -- 'no cigar.'"
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