Stable Voltage Settings for Athlon 2500+

[nalaree007]

I was wondering what a good, stable voltage setting would be for my Athlon XP 2500+. My Shuttle XPC doesn't even seem to know it's a 2500+. Should I go with 1.65 or 1.85V? Any other number? Any other settings I should do? Thanks.

 

[endyen]

1.65 is stock. If you are overclocking I dont recomend above 1.8. Most are stable to 2.2 gigs at less than 1.75v. If you are not ocing stick with stock.

 

[coylter]

should be stable at 1.7 11*200

Athlon 2700xp+ (oc: 3200xp+ with 200fsb) , Radeon 9800pro (oc: 410/370) , 512mb pc3200 (3-3-3-2), Asus A7N8X-X

 

[nalaree007]

Thanks for the info guys. Hopefully that will solve my stability problem for my Shuttle XPC SK43g. The default "auto" settings was 1.85V.

 

[Snorkius]

I run mine at 1.55V 100% stable.

45C after an hour of prime95!!! HA HA!.


P.S. I used a volcano 11+ 🙂\, it was <i>cheap</i>) at ~3000rpm, case open(I always leave it open)...


...now if only my memory was up to par... :frown:


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[Snorkius]

P.P.S. Used the default (I assume) POS thermal paste that came with the cooler...

A long long time ago, but I can still remember, how that music used to make me smile... <A HREF="http://www.nexus.hu/zonix/DIGGER.MID" target="_new"><b><font color=blue>Digger rulz</font color=blue></b></A>

 

[pauldh]

1.55v? is that a mobile chip or a cream of the crop desktop chip? My desktop does 11*200 at 1.75v, the mobile does 12*200 at 1.75v.

But really voltage settings are going to vary from chip to chip and board to board. So it is hard to say what he should get OC'in. But yes he should start at 1.65v and only bump that up if it isn't stable.

ABIT IS7, P4 2.6C, 512MB Corsair TwinX PC3200LL, Radeon 9800 Pro, Santa Cruz, TruePower 430watt

 

[pauldh]

1.85v in a dinkly XPC? LOL smell anything burning. I'd like to get my hand's on one of them little boxes sometime. Let us know how you like it once you adjust the voltage.

ABIT IS7, P4 2.6C, 512MB Corsair TwinX PC3200LL, Radeon 9800 Pro, Santa Cruz, TruePower 430watt

 

[Snorkius]

Desktop!

Got lucky, I guess.

(Default was 1.65)

A long long time ago, but I can still remember, how that music used to make me smile... <A HREF="http://www.nexus.hu/zonix/DIGGER.MID" target="_new"><b><font color=blue>Digger rulz</font color=blue></b></A>

 

[pauldh]

I'd think with the latest bios that XPC should auto detect the difference between the .13 and .18 chips and recognize your XP2500+ correctly. Check their website and compare what bios you are running.

<A HREF="http://www.shuttle.com/share/fae/hq/download/bios_rdm/readmefx43g.htm" target="_new">http://www.shuttle.com/share/fae/hq/download/bios_rdm/readmefx43g.htm</A>


ABIT IS7, P4 2.6C, 512MB Corsair TwinX PC3200LL, Radeon 9800 Pro, Santa Cruz, TruePower 430watt

 

[nalaree007]

One of the first things I did was get the newest BIOS. I even loaded "stable or fail safe" settings, but it still chose 1.85V. Go figure.

Hopefully the switch to a lower voltage will cure my problems. I'll let you guys know if I still have stablity issues.

 

[Coyote]

Consider running MBM5 to indepenantly check the voltage rails. 1.85 is too too high

Barton 2500+
Abit NF7-S v 2.0
Maxtor 60GB ATA 133 7200RPM
512MB Corsair Twinx 3200LL
9600 Pro
Enermax Noisetaker 420 watts
Win98SE

 

[nalaree007]

Update. Still have stability problems. I think there is a design flaw with the Shuttle XPC sk43g. A lot of people seem to have the same problems. You can check this forum out.

http://forums.sudhian.com/messageview.cfm?catid=43&threadid=50166