Pin Mod not what it seems

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silverphoenix

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I pin modded my a64 3000 to up the vcore. Now according to others and the guide I should have seen a .05V bump. Problem is when I ran 1.55V in BIOS I should have gotten 1.6 but rather got 1.584 and even without the pinmod I would get 1.584 if I set the BIOS to 1.55V. Now I decided to fiddle with votls to see if pinmod works. Well in a way it does but not by adding .05V like it said, depending on what my BIOS volts setting is it changes. example here

Bios Vcore--Actual Vcore

1.55 --1.584
1.4 --1.45
1.425 --1.45
1.475 --1.4
1.4825--1.6

Apparently I get the best volts at 1.4825 setting which is confusing me lol. I'm using an A8N-e Btw
 
mebe but according to the manual this mobo should be able to go all the way to 1.675V. Either way I set bios to 1.485, cpuz reads pretty rock solid 1.6 with half second drop to 1.584 again every 10 min or so. I'm happy though it is running prime mixed 10 tests down @ 325x8.5 which would only go around test 3 and fail. Hopefully it keeps going hehe

-edit btw eclipse how do u get higher vcores? like which mobos? and I'm loading at 41C, will cooling it further help stability?
 
some just supply more than others... my old dfi nf4 ultra-d would go up to... 2.14v iirc. k9n plat was 1.75v, this new dfi nf590 sli goes to 1.94v. more than enough to hurt a 90nm cpu pretty quick :p
 
I'm chugging along doing Test1 at 896kFFT length faaar better than before where I would last 5 min then prime would die. Thanks for all the help mark. I've got the OC bug now... haha.
 
If I may ask, why are you wanting to use a 1/2 multi? (8.5) This cuts your ram speed down some ;)
 
newls1 said:
If I may ask, why are you wanting to use a 1/2 multi? (8.5) This cuts your ram speed down some ;)
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I wanted to hit 2600mhz, still can't... but using a 9x multi I could only hit 2450mhz due to ram latencies etc. At 8.5x multi I can hit 2577 stable, using a 333 divider and 2-3-3-6 timings. I'm too lazy to try 8x multi for now.
 
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