CPU Voltage

Hi everyone, the summer is here again and in my case it´s time for me to lower my CPU voltage so I can run my processor a little cooler in these hot days, something I´ve done commonly before with my previous Phenoms.

I recently bought a new Phenom II 920 alongside with a not-so-new Asus M3A Mobo. As far as I know, Phenoms have pretty high standard voltage of 1.36v and from my experiences I can safely lower it down to 1.25v to run it stable and cool. It´s not overclocked, so I´m using the stock hsf.

Well, the problem is: with the M3A Mobo, the only options I get for processor voltage are 0.8000v - 0.9750v (screenshot)
Is it me or M3A who´s completely lost here? Any advices would be appreciated.



BTW, BIOS has been flashed with the newest version.

Turned the AI Overclocking to manual and rebooted. No changes unfortunately. Hardware monitor shows the VCore of 1.36V wich is standard.

Cant actually remember if I did because I flashed the bios months ago. But I did clear the Bios like hour ago before my post here, but the voltage problem still exist.

Thanks for the help, after reading a countless posts related to Phenom II + trollposts by some intel fanboys at the ASUS forums I´ve got a hunch that the problem is hanging around the compatibility between M3A and Phenom II.

One possible solution you told me, would be using that software wich is said to be not recommended, so I keep it in mind as a last option, since my system is working perfectly well if I dont mind the little heat increase at summer times (and drop the idea of overclocking.) But it seems pretty inevitable that I must buy a new motherboard for my phenom from my next salary, that´s for sure.

It´s still a bit amusing that the local computer shop offered me a motherboard with so much known compatibility problems with the new Phenom processors, half price or not

At the ASUS site use the drop down menu at the top of the page, for some reason I was not allowed to edit my last post to add this.