Modding a OCZ DDR Booster

[gclg2000]

Has anyone ever adding some resistors and 3 POT's to the OCZ DDR booster so you could adjust the PSU rail voltage's..........would be very simple to do.......you know just mod the 3.3v, 5v and 12v lines in the booster ATX pass through plug(female side)....And just hot glue them to the female part of the pass through plug (extension part).

You could avoid modding a nice PSU and "take your chances" on a $40 dollar part rather than a $120 PSU.....assuming you don't already own a Powerstream.....

Anyone ever done that?????? to avoid modding the PSU directly???? or from buying a OCZ POwerstream?!!?

BTW...i Own a Powerstream 520w and DDR Booster by them and they are great.

Also this is a reference from this board on modding a PSU so you could adjust the rails manually...just as a reference to show what i'm talking about.

http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=37574

[Hell-Fire]

Wont work bud....good idea, but wont work.

When cutting sense wires (as in the link you posted above), you are working directly with the voltage regulators that control the output for each rail. Its a little more involved than that, but thats pretty much the gist of it. You cant simply add resistors to the "live" power rails and be able to increase the voltage levels. You will actually lower the voltage output this way.

Not sure if it would work honestly, but if the ATX extender had sense wires as well, then maybe it would work. I have yet to see one.

[pscl227]

wasnt there one guy on here who modded his booster to give 5v and fried his tccd with it?

[Rub87]

It's can't be done, simply as that, the 5 sense and +5v wire are togheter in 1 slot in the psu's atx connector, when you put the atx extender of the booster in, it will not we able to do something with the sense wire as it will always be connected to another +5v wire, Maybe with some soldering you can remove the +5 wire in the slot where the sense wire is, and solder it to antoher +5v wire and then use a atx extende with a variable resistor between the sense slot on the atx connector and the wire coming from the mobo's atx connector...

Just my 2 cents..