Voltage maxes for an A7N8X delux

[justwOo]

Hello

I recently did all three volt mods on my a7n8x delux, and I saw barely any gain, the max i can boot with my ram in dual channel is 220, and in single its 225 :\

Right now i'm running 1.9 volts through the chipset with the mod, and it doesnt seem to be getting too hot... I put a little ramsink deal on it, and theres a fan blowing over it
But how many volts do you think I could safely push it too for 24/7 use?
Thanks for the help :D

[dippyskoodlez]

Hello

I recently did all three volt mods on my a7n8x delux, and I saw barely any gain, the max i can boot with my ram in dual channel is 220, and in single its 225 :\

Right now i'm running 1.9 volts through the chipset with the mod, and it doesnt seem to be getting too hot... I put a little ramsink deal on it, and theres a fan blowing over it
But how many volts do you think I could safely push it too for 24/7 use?
Thanks for the help :D

I'd say 1.8 with a decent cooler, 1.9 if you got water or phase-change...

Make sure your SB is cooled, and cooled well!! that got me 5mhz on my a7n8x fsb, and got rid of a lot of problems.

225 will probably be your max... mine topped out round 222, but that was from the ram.. my an7 tops out round 230 aswell.

[justwOo]

darn... i was sorta hopin somebody was gonna tell me to pump 2.2 into it :D

lol

What do you guys use for chipset cooling?
I've already taken off my north bridge and lapped it to 800grit and put as5 on it when i put it back on, and i've got a fan blowing directly onto it, and i've got a bga ramsink on my southbridge...

Should i take my northbridge cooler and put it on my southrbidge, and buy a northbridge cooler with a fan? like a vga cooler type

Any more suggestions on how I could squeeze a few more mhz out?

[jjcom]

modded BIOS could help, yeah that would be fine. Putting the NB cooling on the SB and buying a new NB cooler. A nice copper one...I believe ThermalRight makes a pretty nice one...no idea if it'll work on your board but something to look into

jjcom

[dippyskoodlez]

modded BIOS could help, yeah that would be fine. Putting the NB cooling on the SB and buying a new NB cooler. A nice copper one...I believe ThermalRight makes a pretty nice one...no idea if it'll work on your board but something to look into

jjcom

I took my DFI infinty's NB cooler and put it on my SB and stuck a Tbird 850 heatsink and fan on my northbridge. works well :D

Ive never seen someone push some massive voltage through a NB on NFII, so I dunno what max is.. more voltage seems to not help too much, though... :(

[saaya]

I'd say 1.8 with a decent cooler, 1.9 if you got water or phase-change...

Make sure your SB is cooled, and cooled well!! that got me 5mhz on my a7n8x fsb, and got rid of a lot of problems.

225 will probably be your max... mine topped out round 222, but that was from the ram.. my an7 tops out round 230 aswell.

1.9 will be fine with a good heatsink and fan as well... you can try more vdd and see if it helps, but i doubt it... some nbs clocked lower after people gave them 2v vdd or more, other nbs dont seem to care about those volts...

darn... i was sorta hopin somebody was gonna tell me to pump 2.2 into it :D
pump 2.2v into it! :D
if it doesnt help or makes the board oc even worse just sell it and go 754 or 939 :)

[justwOo]

I never thought about the extra volts running to my ram dippy, I've seen some pretty crazy bh-5 on nf2 boards though

Maybe i'll take it up to 2 or so and try
220 just isnt acceptable :P