Burning Question

[TJH56]

I'm trying to put a K6-2/500 into an Asus P5A Mobo. There are only two jumper settings for the v. I/O, 3.5 (default) and 3.6. The AMD chip has 3.3v I/0 stamped on it. Will running it at 3.5 release all the blue smoke that makes it operate?

[Budfred]

It sounds pretty likely to me. Generally most electronic devices tend to kind of blow up when you overload them. It could be an interesting one time event though, maybe you ought to videotape it.

Good luck.

[hiredgoonz]

Unless the board supports dual-voltage cpus, it won't work...if the IO voltage is set at 3.5 instead of 3.3, you'd probably be ok as long as you had a HS/fan on the chip...the problem here is that the core voltage of that cpu is different from the IO voltage and should be 2.2V...

The regular non-mmx pentiums used 3.5 or 3.6 volts for everything, the mmx and K6-2s were dual voltage, using 3.3 for IO and something else (2.0-2.5) for core voltage. If you try and run the K6-2 at 3.5V CORE voltage, it WILL go up in smoke.

If you can set the core to 2.2 and the IO at 3.5, you should be fine, but it sounds like the board doesn't do that.