The number of VID pins (thus the bit-length of the VID code) that specify the VCore requirements of the CPU has increased from 6 to 7-8.It turned out the main reason the mobo didn't support Conroe CPUs is that the Conroes use a slightly different power system design. There's an A2 revision of the board that handles Conroe cores, maybe success is just a bios mod away? It was essentially limited to the old Pentium/Celeron D power hogs. The Fujitsu mobo couldn't handle the Conroe CPU. I've decided to get rid of the Prescott to improve the situation so I got a cheap Celeron 420, which is Conroe based and has about half the TDP of the Prescott.Īs is usually the case there was a reason for the hardware being extremely cheap. I was getting over-temp warnings from the Ultrium drive from time to time, which does a fair bit of heating on it's own (though not as much as the CPU) The overall power consumption of the system was around 90W. As it turned out the Celeron was in fact Prescott based so I was looking at 56C idle temps despite 1 large fan strapped onto the heat-pipe CPU cooler right next to the large PSU fan. So not really giving it much thought I got the cheapest stuff I could find: a Fujitsu D2151-A1 mobo with a Celeron D CPU. I've decided to severely cheap out on the hardware for this machine since I only use it a few times a month. I have a dedicated PC for my Ultrium drive.
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