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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (115497)	6/11/2000 9:26:00 PM
From: crazyoldman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572202

Hello Jim, Re: Speaking of that. If I recall you are using the MSI 6195 K7pro motherboard. (Dan3 uses them too). Could you do me favor and look in your BIOS under Hardware Monitor and see how steady your Vcore voltages are running? Mine seem to jump around the 1.6V the Vcore is set to. This jumps around...1.586 to 1.6 to 1.612, back to 1.6 etc... I've used only the K7M motherboard Jim, however it has similar BIOS hardware monitoring features and I'm familiar with this "jumping around" of the displayed voltages you describe. I used to play around with analog to digital converters a little and noticed that the ADC would not always give exactly the same conversion on successive samples. I've noticed the same phenomenon with digital volt/ohm meters. My take on this is that it's caused by the ADC process itself where continuous analog quantities must be piegon-holed into discret finite digital levels. I've never actually measured the voltages displayed with external equipment but I don't think it's anything to worry about. It seems to happen with each and every motherboard I've put together so far and is independent of the power supply used. I did substitute an Anatec 303 power supply for the one that comes in the case (both 300 watts) and saw no difference in the displayed voltges, they still "jumped around". Perhaps some of our engineer types can enlighten us further. BTW, what speed processor are you running? You never said how you like your machine, are you as pleased as I have been? Any problems so far? How long have you had it? Kindest regards, CrazyMan