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I have been reading allot of posts lately on other forums stating concerns about overclocking SB and it's voltages. Most of what concerns me is the voltages on these chips and how easily they are supposed to be able to be killed.... For examples....
Max Memory voltages are not supposed to exceed 1.5 volts +5% which means max Intel voltage allowed is 1.58 volts. Which normally wouldn't worry me all that much but with seeing a few reports of this killing CPU's already I thought I would ask about it. Example do you think my XMS 3 running @ 1.65 for sustained amounts of time will be safe or should I buy something else in replacement to be safe?
Next been hearing reports of people killing off their SB chips with as low Vcore voltages of 1.28 volts and up. Has anyone here had anything like this happen to them? I thought the chip was supposed to handle up to 1.52 volts (some where in that area) safely (Per Intel)
I also see a general agreement lately over the net suggesting to overclockers not to run there SB chips over 1.38 volts for any extended time because of how these chips can be killed. Which is strange to me because I also see a tone of people running these chips way higher than that for extended periods of time with out problems. And also hitting clocks of 5.0 ghz or higher.
Also see reports of not exceeding VCCIO (VTT) voltages of 1.0815 which I always thought the rule was to keep this voltage with in .45 from DRAM. So if it is safe (Lets say) to run the DRAM voltage at 1.65 how would this be possible with that max voltage.
I am not trying to be a scary person about this but.... when reading this stuff I thought I would ask. Especially because while I do overclock.... I am also one of those overclockers that try to stay with in max allowed specs to get my overclocks. Are these rumors true or are they all fake.
please way in I would love to hear what people have been finding out about this???
Thanks
Max Memory voltages are not supposed to exceed 1.5 volts +5% which means max Intel voltage allowed is 1.58 volts. Which normally wouldn't worry me all that much but with seeing a few reports of this killing CPU's already I thought I would ask about it. Example do you think my XMS 3 running @ 1.65 for sustained amounts of time will be safe or should I buy something else in replacement to be safe?
Next been hearing reports of people killing off their SB chips with as low Vcore voltages of 1.28 volts and up. Has anyone here had anything like this happen to them? I thought the chip was supposed to handle up to 1.52 volts (some where in that area) safely (Per Intel)
I also see a general agreement lately over the net suggesting to overclockers not to run there SB chips over 1.38 volts for any extended time because of how these chips can be killed. Which is strange to me because I also see a tone of people running these chips way higher than that for extended periods of time with out problems. And also hitting clocks of 5.0 ghz or higher.
Also see reports of not exceeding VCCIO (VTT) voltages of 1.0815 which I always thought the rule was to keep this voltage with in .45 from DRAM. So if it is safe (Lets say) to run the DRAM voltage at 1.65 how would this be possible with that max voltage.
I am not trying to be a scary person about this but.... when reading this stuff I thought I would ask. Especially because while I do overclock.... I am also one of those overclockers that try to stay with in max allowed specs to get my overclocks. Are these rumors true or are they all fake.
please way in I would love to hear what people have been finding out about this???
Thanks