Need to increase my Palomino vcore without O/C

Computer Forum CPU, Motherboards and Memory
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Hello,

Here is my config:

CPU Athlon XP Palomino 2000+ 3 years old
MB KT6V-LSR recently purchased
RAM PC2700 DDR333
Not O/C: FSP 133, DRAM 266 (sync with FSB), CPU 1666.

To ensure stability with Prime95 for 10 hours and more, I had to increase my vcore from 1.75 to 1.775, and this, without O/C. Normal ? Due to CPU ageing?

Thanks for your help,

Nicolas

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It could also be that the motherboard slighly undervolts and isn’t providing the necessary voltage at the default values. If you haven’t been OC’ing it, then that’s really the only thing I can think of that would explain the problem. It may be addressed with a BIOS update, but I’m inclined to say probably not.