Posts by regularguy

Successfully unsoldered the VR from cap. Tried to test FB to ground to make sure it's back at 13 ohms but my DMM seems to be on the fritz (only 3 days and it goes bad). Will update as soon as I can exchange it and test. Not going to...

I'm pretty sure (bad memory) I already tried simply disconnecting VR from ground and it didn't help. I'll give a shot to completely removing it though. What do I do if it still doesn't work? I'm sure there's also something else I'd...

Finished volt mod last night. May have destroyed card. Attached 1k VR to card and set to ~900 ohms (stock resistance was measured to be 13ohms). Turn on PC, seems fine, "Starting Windows".... .... .... .......

Quote:Originally Posted by CL3P20 should be good to go  Wooh, yay!! Been smashing F5, thanks and I guess i'm ready to finally take the dive (again)... Aside: bad joints are bad...

It's pretty close measured FB pin + ground (alligator clip on metal piece at the very end of the card) ~12.2 (remeasured and got ~12.9) and blue marked cap end + same ground ~12.9 ohms

Well, took the card out and fired up the multimeter. I got a reading that stabilized at ~0.015 when testing between blue point and GND Does that mean I've got continuity? Please excuse my ignorance, my DMM doesn't have a beeping...

Thanks. Also, am I boned if the pad that I was supposed to solder to (the one linked to the FB pin) comes off? Because it kind of just did when I was trying to apply hot glue to seal the joint but ended up ripping the whole thing off...

Noob here... I've been scouring the forums the past week or so trying to learn how to do a volt mod on my GPU (XFX 9800 GTX+) to increase the core voltage. Also, in general i'm just trying to eliminate any artifacts when overclocking...