View Full Version : Radeon 8500 volt mod?
rogue1979
12-31-2002, 11:23 AM
I have a retail Radeon 8500 128MB running 312/306. I have researched the capacitor mod and have no problems soldering, have done it to Geforce cards many times. My question is if a raise the core and memory voltages to 1.85v and 3.65v adding ramsinks and a good gpu cooler, will I get significant results? The card has Infineon 3.6ns ram chips in the BGA packaging, with the 7006 bios version. I flashed to the 1009 bios and reached 315 for the memory, but it was a 64MB bios and did not recognize the full 128MB of ram, so I flashed back to 7006.
Why dont you do the pencil trick? Also DO NOT put the mem up to 3.65v. I have a Radeon8500le 128mb with BGA ram, not sure of the brand, but stock voltage is 2.8v. Go to rage3d.com for vmod info
rogue1979
01-22-2003, 10:31 AM
Thanks for the tip on the bga voltage. It doesn't matter now though, I just switched to an Asus GF4 Ti4200 128MB @ 300/640
what are you doing with the 8500?
rogue1979
01-27-2003, 12:32 AM
My 8 year old son claimed it and gave me his OEM Radeon 8500 64MB to sell.
STEvil
01-28-2003, 11:51 PM
I should vmod my 8500 before I sell it to my friend.. does 320/325 stock cooling.. 3.6ns hyinx chips I think.. 8-)