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Which KT333 Mobos support more than 1.85v for the cpu?

montego

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I know the Epox board does & the MSI & ASUS dont.

Im really curious to know if the SOLTEK SL-75DRV5 (Purple Ray) VIA KT333.

Or any other KT333 boards that support over 1.85v?

Also, what is the voltage mod I keep hearing about on the MSI KT3 ULTRA board?
It it easy to do?
 
The Asus A7V333 DOES support higher than 1.85V - there is a jumper labelled overvolt enable/disable above the CPU socket, set this to enable with VCore at 1.85V and you have 2.20V! Lower VCore lowers the voltage accordingly.
 
NickE, wow, Im glad to hear that.

This REVIEW
I read said it didnt.

Quote from ASUS A7V333 Review


<< Using the onboard jumpers you can adjust the VCore between 1.750 and 1.850 as well as chose between the following FSB speeds: 100/133/140/150/166/170/180/190/200/210/220/230. The BIOS allows you to chose the FSB settings in 1MHz increments between 100MHz and 227MHz. You can also adjust the VCore and clock multiplier from the BIOS. We were able to take our Athlon XP 1600+ from 133MHz to 141MHz which is not a huge jump and we feel that memory voltage would've helped in getting out DDR-333 stick past that mark. >>



So i guess they could have elaborated on that more instead of implying that the vcore settings stop at 1.85v.

So you can probably guess my next question...
Can you adjust memory & agp voltage on the mobo also?

And while Im asking NickE, care to give any opinion on that Kingmax ram your using?
Are you running at cas2.5 or is that just the rating & youre running at cas2?

Im probably going with Corsair PC2700 ram, but thats not written in stone any more than my mobo choice is yet.



 
Yes, you can adjust RAM voltage, but not AGP. RAM voltage is controlled by JP1 & 2 (just above the video card), which aren't documented anywhere, but have the following settings:

JP1 JP2 V
1-2 1-2 2.5
2-3 1-2 2.65
1-2 2-3 2.75
2-3 2-3 2.80

At the moment, I'm having a few problems with the Kingmax, it seems less stable than the Crucial PC2100 I had previously, hence the CL2.5. It looks like it's the RAM voltage too high that's causing it, so the next step is try backing it off a step or two - the board came set at 2.75V. At standard settings, it's rock solid, only when I overclock it then I get problems. This review at PCPowerZone was really what convinced me to get the Kingmax.
 
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