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Whoa!!! Incorrect VCore on MSI Pro-2A

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Windogg

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Everything is so far so good with the MSI Pro2A except for one alarming fact. Righ now I have a 1Ghz TBird Oced to 1.25Ghz. I set the voltage in the BIOS to 1.85v to get it stable and things have been working just fine for about two months. I happened to fire up the MSI monitoring utility and noticed the VCore was listed as 1.92v (?!?!?). A few of the other numbers seem a little off too. The 3.3v was pegged around 3.4v and the 12v was at 12.1v. The power supply is a AMD approved 300W Sparkle. Temperature wise things seem OK but I feel the readings are a bit low. The system temp is running at ambiant room and the CPU was only about 5C above room at idle and 15C above room when cracking RC5. My HS/Fan combo is the Alpha PAL6035 w/ a 23CFM Sunon and Arctic Silver paste.

Any ideas? How dangerous is it to run the CPU at that voltage?

Windogg
 
Sounds about right I'm using the Enermax 450VPE-whatever powersupply.
My Pro2A adds about .05 to .06v to vcore. and the 3.3v is 3.39v. My 12v is around 12.24v.
I ended up lowering the vcore by .05 to compensate.
 
no big deal man.
I have run athlons all the way up to 2.05V with alphas.
as long as the cpu is not crashing you are all set.
Just have good case ventilation!

Also, athlons are extremely rugged chips with respect to heat and voltage. I have overclocked many to the max 1.95-2.05V
and never fvcked any up.

 
Thanks for the replies everyone. I darn near crapped my shorts. Just glad that things should be fine. Can go over 2.0v eh? Maybe it's time to shoot for 1.3Ghz. I haven't touched the FSB yet. Perhaps 12.5 x 104 or 105?

Case ventalation should good since the side cover is off. 🙂
 
I have run athlons all the way up to 2.05V with alphas

Hot d@mn!!! That's high! I'm running 1066MHz at 1.60V.
 
Msi boards seems to put max or more voltage on default, when L1 and L7 bridges connected.
When I didn't modify the bridges, the vcore was 1.75 as default on pro2a. However, when I connected the bridges on same 1 gig tbird, turbo-r board was listing 1.96 as default, and when I put a modified duron 650 on pro2a, it's showing 1.90, both w/o any oc and w/default vcore on bios.
 
My MSI i815e PRO runs .5v low on the cpu setting, if I set it at 1.8 and check it with the bios readout or a windows monitor it wil read anywhere form 1.74 to 1.76 same deal with whatever voltage setting for the cpu, 1.7 = 1.65(+/-) etc...

Also the damn thing doesnt see the ps2 mouse on every other boot, exactly every other boot, so if I have to reboot then I have to reset sometime after the drives are detected but before the o/s loads or my ps2 mouse will not work :|
 
my computer does that too.. whether it's the motherboard, or Power supply, I know not for sure (though I suspect it is the power supply).

try backing it down on the motherboard till it reads what it should be (1.85V).. it could also be a misread by the motherboard btw..

BTW, you core may run fine at higher then normal voltages, though I wouldn't expect them to last as long as the ones within normal parameters..
 
This deviation is normal. As long as an overclocked processor is stable at the current voltage (when stressed) you really have nothing to worry about.

Cheers!
 
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