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Originally Posted by EpicAMDGamer 
Well honestly, I am HORRIBLE at sodering. I'm even a bit worried about how bad it'll be to soder little wires to the legs of those IC's for the resistors and what not. theres no way I'll surface mount anything but I can easily soder through hole.
And yes I do plan to do a volt mod (if my sodering skills are up to it). Do you know which cards have better power phases?
Well honestly, I am HORRIBLE at sodering. I'm even a bit worried about how bad it'll be to soder little wires to the legs of those IC's for the resistors and what not. theres no way I'll surface mount anything but I can easily soder through hole.
And yes I do plan to do a volt mod (if my sodering skills are up to it). Do you know which cards have better power phases?
hah, not to worry, In all honesty, it's a $20-30 card when it's all said and done, at least it's cheap to play around with... Looks to me, (quick look) that there are 3 revisions on the gigabyte GT210 card, and revisions 2 and 3 offers each a 2 phase delivery system and the gigabyte Ultra durable VGA, but sport a smaller heatsink
http://ca.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4254#ov
whereas revision 1 host a single phase, supply but larger heat sink and no ultra durable VGA. although there seems to be a nice filter cap through hole solder joint that you could fill, although I'd prefer the rev 2/3 myself.
http://ca.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3913#ov
where as they make a silent version of the same card (rev 2/3 PCB)
http://ca.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3964#ov
and they gimp the power delivery system, they have 2 chokes, but only one phase, they remove some core components, but if you were feeling bold you could repopulate the board and get dual phase going it seems.
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