Introduction
I was the winner of a FREE Zotac GTX1060 6GB Mini. The freebie was hosted by @TheLAWNOOB and it was open to nearly everyone on OCN. Check out the thread here: Heavily Used & Spray Painted GTX 1060 As my entrance to the freebie I made a promise to the OP and the OCN community. I promised that if I won the freebie I would do all hard mods, bench the card with subzero, and give the card away for the price of shipping when I was done with it...if it still has its blue smoke inside
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The Card
Once I got the card, I instantly ripped off the stock cooler and put a universal water cooler on there for some nice stock testing.
This is a non-reference design card with a decent 4+1 power phase setup. We are used to seeing much stronger power phases on higher end cards but for this tiny core, the power regulation is decent. The capacitance on this card is not the best in my opinion. There is one beefy 1200uF electrolytic and a few tiny ceramics per phase for the core. There is not much in the mid range for transients...I will fix that eventually.
Time for MODS
As I started looking up the PWM parts I was initially really excited that the full datasheets for BOTH are available direct on the manufactures website. I quickly learned that uP9511P is a 40 pin part and uP9511Q is a 32 pin part. As you guessed it, the "Q" part is a custom PWM and no datasheets are available for it.
My only option was to use the 40 pin uP9511P datasheet and somehow translate it to the 32 pin uP9511Q. After lots of part/datasheet scrutiny and an hour with the multimeter, I was able to make a decent educated guess as to where the FB pin should be. Here is my best guess at core:
I didn't need to guess for the memory since the datasheet is available online, so its extremely straightforward.
I did my usual "initial" mod where I wire up displays, adjustment pots, and mod enable/disable switches. This should be a good start so I can take it subzero and hopefully put down some nice scores.
Initial Testing
YES IT WORKS!! It seems my educated guess about the core PWM was correct and I now have control of both core and memory volts. In theese pictures you can see the card running 100% load with stock voltage then I enabled the mod and gave them a little bump to show it works.
Results
Not much to show yet, I will be testing over the weekend and I will update this thread so stay tuned. Thats all for now, but there are more mods to come.
UPDATE: CAPS
UPDATE: LET Cold Prep
I was the winner of a FREE Zotac GTX1060 6GB Mini. The freebie was hosted by @TheLAWNOOB and it was open to nearly everyone on OCN. Check out the thread here: Heavily Used & Spray Painted GTX 1060 As my entrance to the freebie I made a promise to the OP and the OCN community. I promised that if I won the freebie I would do all hard mods, bench the card with subzero, and give the card away for the price of shipping when I was done with it...if it still has its blue smoke inside
The Card
Once I got the card, I instantly ripped off the stock cooler and put a universal water cooler on there for some nice stock testing.
This is a non-reference design card with a decent 4+1 power phase setup. We are used to seeing much stronger power phases on higher end cards but for this tiny core, the power regulation is decent. The capacitance on this card is not the best in my opinion. There is one beefy 1200uF electrolytic and a few tiny ceramics per phase for the core. There is not much in the mid range for transients...I will fix that eventually.
Time for MODS
As I started looking up the PWM parts I was initially really excited that the full datasheets for BOTH are available direct on the manufactures website. I quickly learned that uP9511P is a 40 pin part and uP9511Q is a 32 pin part. As you guessed it, the "Q" part is a custom PWM and no datasheets are available for it.
My only option was to use the 40 pin uP9511P datasheet and somehow translate it to the 32 pin uP9511Q. After lots of part/datasheet scrutiny and an hour with the multimeter, I was able to make a decent educated guess as to where the FB pin should be. Here is my best guess at core:
I didn't need to guess for the memory since the datasheet is available online, so its extremely straightforward.
I did my usual "initial" mod where I wire up displays, adjustment pots, and mod enable/disable switches. This should be a good start so I can take it subzero and hopefully put down some nice scores.
Initial Testing
YES IT WORKS!! It seems my educated guess about the core PWM was correct and I now have control of both core and memory volts. In theese pictures you can see the card running 100% load with stock voltage then I enabled the mod and gave them a little bump to show it works.
Results
Not much to show yet, I will be testing over the weekend and I will update this thread so stay tuned. Thats all for now, but there are more mods to come.
UPDATE: CAPS
UPDATE: LET Cold Prep
