How to find the VRM version of your board + other?

Whats your current cpu's voltage? 1.95-2.05v i am guessing.


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there are many diagnostic programs that will tell you, such as cpu z, or sisoft sandra.

You actually have a pretty tricky situation, the only thing i can think of is tricking your motherboard that you are using a 66mhz bus cpu opperating at 1.65 volts. This can be done by covering pins with little peices of tape, if it posts you definitly will support a coppermine/tualatin cpu, but it is definitly not the most "elegant" solution.


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Tricky question! Coppermines can bear up to around 1.95v over long periods of time. Tualatins can bear up to around 1.70v for long periods of time.

VRM 8.2 only supported 1.8v minimum. That would be out of the question for a Tualatin, but tolerable for a Coppermine. I used to recommend people upgrade such boards with an adjustable Slotket, so they could trick the board into using 1.80v, instead of the stock 1.65-1.75v. This trick actually made the system operable.

If you have access to a Slot 1 Coppermine CPU, you could insert it and see if it boots up. If it does, it has VRM 8.4, with 1.30v minimum, easily working with Tualatins on standard Tualatin adapters.

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You could check Upgradeware's site to see if anyone has tried it on your board sucessfully, and if not, you could try Powerleap's site.

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