Many thanks
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, root mewed:
> Vic wrote:
>
> > If you are installing a cpu into a motherboard,
> > and you don't know the voltage, is it safe to
> > start at the lowest voltage and then go up
> > from there until it works?
>
> Well, tis safer to read the info printed on the processor and search the web
> site of the company making it for the model number.
>
> But if you have a blank one and a motherboard you can risk...
>
> There are two voltages to worry about and they are for the IO pins on the
> processor and the core voltage.--too large a difference in these can be as
> deadly as way way too high a voltage. SO, since the I/O pins are the higher
> voltage, start with the lowest voltage for the IO pins and the highest for the
> core--like 3.3 for everything--if it works, you most likely have a Pentium
> between 75 and 150 MHz....
>
> Then work DOWN the voltages for the core--if none of that works, then use the
> 3.52 for the IO pins and the core and again work down the core voltages.
>
> At some settings the processor will hang, at some it will rise rapidly in
> temp--put a digital thermometer on it while you do this, or don't do it. At
> some it will work intermittently at some it will work mostly and at one or
> perhaps 2 or 3 it will work well. One of the overclocking tricks is to "up
> the electromotive pressure on the processor" (raise the operating
> voltage)... I put a K6-266 up to 285 on a 95 bus by kicking the IO pins from
> 3.3 to 3.52 and it runs great. It was 4x on a 66 bus for 266 and now it is 3x
> on a 95 bus for about a 30% improvement in speed.
>
> HOWEVER, it is far better to use the search tools at your disposal for
> appropriate information in identifying and runing compuiter components than it
> is to decrease your cash supply for the purpose of increasing the world's junk
> supply.
>
> Civileme
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