Undervolting K7S41GX
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Undervolting K7S41GX
Unfortunally this was the only mATX Socket A board availible in my area. Everything on it works fine, but I dont think it has an undervolting option.
Ive looked around a bit for a solution, but I really cant find anything. I really need to undervolt this chip. Is there any hackish-way of forcing the voltage down?
Ive looked around a bit for a solution, but I really cant find anything. I really need to undervolt this chip. Is there any hackish-way of forcing the voltage down?
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Second vote for pin modding. I did it to an Athlon 2000+ on an Asus A7V880 that didn't support undervolting. I cut some bridges on the CPU and planted a very thin jump wire in to the socket. IIRC correctly it gives me a 1,425 Vcore, but you can go lower, by cutting and connecting certain bridges on the CPU. I think that way you don't need the jump wire. Although, be sure to check how low your CPU speed can be set from BIOS. If you set the Vcore to lowest possible (~1,2V I think with the bridge mods) and then notice you can't get the thing to boot up due to too big CPU speed then you're in for a nice ride re-connecting and cutting some more.
HTH.
HTH.
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Hi Splinter,
I was going to reply to this post earlier but totally forgot, sorry about that.
The other site I was looking at when I did the mod was this one http://fab51.com/cpu/barton/athlon-e23.html, but I really don't know if everything is accurate on that page. But atleast it has info on going down to 1,1V.
I was going to reply to this post earlier but totally forgot, sorry about that.
The other site I was looking at when I did the mod was this one http://fab51.com/cpu/barton/athlon-e23.html, but I really don't know if everything is accurate on that page. But atleast it has info on going down to 1,1V.