What are safe voltages for a TBird

[Jabster]

I managed to overclock my tbird 700 to 800 but had to increase the core voltage one step to get it stable. I want to try higher but I need to know what voltages are safe.

What effect does I/O voltage have?

 

[Tetsuo316]

i don't mess with the i/o voltages, so i can't help you there. a lot of people run their machines at 1.85 volts for the socket a tbirds. i don't know if the slot a's run on a different voltage or not. most motherboards max out at 1.85, so you're good as long as you have adequate cooling.

 

[IaPuP]

To be perfectly honest, 1.85V won't hurt a thing PROVIDED that you have sufficient cooling.

I/O voltage increases the voltage supplied to the Chipset, AGP, and RAM cards. This can help get your RAM or FSB running a few MHz faster but doesn't help with the CPU.

Eric

 

[Vpham97]

Crank it all the way up if you want to(1.85)

Tom's Hardware modify their motherboard to 2.11

I'm leaving mine at 1.75 though.

 

[Dulanic]

Raising it from 1.75 default to 1.85 is nothing..... you might lose 10% of your CPU life (big freakin deal.... itll be a dinosaur 9 years from now). My Asus is set to a default I/O of 3.56V.... Creative also recommended to me keeping it there for my Annihilator Pro. It also lets me bring my FSB to 111.... I can only fo 107 FSB with 3.3V

 

[Gunslinger]

As seen below bumping up a Slot A T-Bird wont hurt. I had mine running at 1000 mhz @ 1.95v and have had it as high as 2.00v I just couldnt get it 100% stable so I backed it down. Running fine at the stats below. The VOS32 helps too. Running 39c under full load of RC5.