780I pencil mod - Page 2 - Overclock.net

br3nd064 · 11-27-08

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Originally Posted by kamikaze7

Umm.. what's a pencil mod? :O

When you shade a part of your motherboard to reduce vdroop.

ericeod · 11-27-08

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Originally Posted by Domino

A pencil mod is where you use the graphite of the pencil and use it to make transitors bigger. You know how videocards say they have 1000 million transistors, etc, well, if you shade them all together you can make a videocard with 1 giant transistor that make the videocard run ridicously fast. :O

Plus, if you colour your CPU with pretty pictures, like with clouds and flowers, you can actually see a 400 MHz overclock via pencil mod. This makes your CPU happy and thus liking you, allowing itself to be overclocked more.

ooooohhhhhh, jk, it has something to do with lowering resistance and uping voltages to overclock higher/provide better/stable results??????

What?

By lowering the resistance (adding graphite to the resistor to allow for easier electricity flow), you are reducing the voltage sag in vcore caused by a load put on the CPU. The vdroop is a design feature that is there to prevent voltage spikes from damaging the CPU.

ill_magnified · 06-05-09

I just did this mod like 2 minutes ago and it actually enabled my system to overclock above the blasted 3ghz barrier without crashing. For some reason my motherboard had severe vdroop but after this mod, im at 3.6ghz at 1.5vcore (i know its high)- still going strong, where as before it wouldnt even let me get to the desktop most of the times. Thank God i tried this Pencil mod, greatest thing ever! Although it may not be this same exact one, i actually followed the 680i pencil mod picture on one of the other forums, worked like a charm! Now i just hope it stays this way.

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