Voltage adjustment relative to default voltage?

Cherub

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Many motherboards that allow vCore adjustments in the BIOS do so by giving choices of voltage increases or decreases relative to default voltage. For example, I have a T-bird 900 with a default vCore of 1.75 and an EPoX 8KTA3. In the BIOS I can select up to +.1 vCore, for a maximum of 1.85 volts.

My question is this: if I modify the L3 bridges so that the CPU's default voltage is 1.85, will I still be able to select +0.1 for a total of 1.95 volts?

I'm assuming that there is some type of external voltage control that would kick it to limit voltage to 1.85, but then what if AMD decided to go with a higher default voltage in the future (such as 1.80 for the new 1.2's and up)?

I really don't want to soldier anything in my system...
 

cpars

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I thought it was the L7's that had to be connected, but all mine are installed and none to look at so...but anyway i have tried that on a few boards and stiil the limit was 1.85 , I have done voltage mods on Abit boards that would allow more