Sick of this ASUS P4B533 OVERVOLTING!

[XDataChildX]

i put it to 1.65, it goes to 1.728 actual. when i run prime it dips down to ~1.66. the overcolt jumper is (NOT) on. this is driving me crazy

 

[Booster]

I think they add a little more juice for stability. For example, ASUS mobos overvolt RAM too as well as slightly OC the FSB. Right now I got a Gigabyte mobo and it way undervolts everything. The default Vcore is 1.7, actual ranges from 1.69 down to 1.63 or even lower under heavy use. I don't think it should make you worry, it's pretty normal.

 

[Duvie]

That is actually the beauty of the asus mobo...You are like selecting the vcore you want it to use under load....I select 1.775v in bios...epox undervolts it to 1.71v actual and it drops to 1.66v under load...I mean c'mon, that is more of a hassle...


You be unhappy with overvolting and I will hate the undervolting of the Epox....I person who does not employ the wire trick on this board can be extremely limted in available vcore....

 

[Booster]

Originally posted by: Duvie
That is actually the beauty of the asus mobo...You are like selecting the vcore you want it to use under load....I select 1.775v in bios...epox undervolts it to 1.71v actual and it drops to 1.66v under load...I mean c'mon, that is more of a hassle...


You be unhappy with overvolting and I will hate the undervolting of the Epox....I person who does not employ the wire trick on this board can be extremely limted in available vcore....

Exactly. Slight overvolting not only helps general use stability, it also makes the board more stable when OCing. In fact, some ASUS moboards that don't allow to raise the Vcore will OC just as well as those that allow to do it b/c they supply more juice to the CPU.

 

[LastRide]

All the overvolt jumper does on the P4B533 is let you select all the way up to 1.95 volts.The default is 1.5V to 1.7V.When you set the jumper you can select 1.5V to 1.95V.It has nothing to do with the 0.06 extra overvolting that board gives you.I like the slight overvolt myself.

 

[Mikki]

There's not much sense in using the jumper anyway (except testing) cause 1.7v will put it around 1.75v, which is the most anyone would want to run their chip at anyway. And I'll give another vote for Asus overvolting....

 

[SupermanCK]

Typical for ASUS board to overvolt during idle...notice the vcore reading under load...it is what you set the vcore to instead of undervolting like many other board out there...

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Duvie
That is actually the beauty of the asus mobo...You are like selecting the vcore you want it to use under load....I select 1.775v in bios...epox undervolts it to 1.71v actual and it drops to 1.66v under load...I mean c'mon, that is more of a hassle...


You be unhappy with overvolting and I will hate the undervolting of the Epox....I person who does not employ the wire trick on this board can be extremely limted in available vcore....

Exactly (deja-vu!). The overvolting is part of the ASUS motherboard. The dipping of core voltage is not because of a flaky ASUS board (an oxymoron, by the way ), all motherboards have CPU voltages on their knees with Prime 95. Enjoy ASUS' foresight, don't insult it!