Merry Christmas!1(it's 12am here..)
Now answer my noob question!:slapass:
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Merry Christmas!1(it's 12am here..)
Now answer my noob question!:slapass:
Merry X-mas to you to!Quote:
Originally Posted by OgreX
If that is a black wire lead then yes, you may solder there for a ground point. I dont have a card infront of me.
The side bar should also work.
anyone see anything obviosly wrong with this?(other than the part where it was done by a dumb@$$ who has been soldering less than a day)
http://home.comcast.net/~ogrex/doneihope.JPG
^^^Demonstration of the WRONG way to do it...^^^(I have np looking like a noob if there is even the slightest chance it could help someone.)
comp didn't explode.. just no change in voltage.. the wires were reading 200 and 94.4 before solder.. which is the exact same the trimmer legs were showing..
lol you connected all the grounds. other points for the mods, there mate!
^^ what he said =P
sigh guess that would do it.. :owned:
would be nice if there weren't so many different pics showing how to do the mod tho.. imho
(so much for needing the alternate grounding point if those were grounds though.)
*edit* Thanks for the replies btw. guess i'll try just keeping the alt grounds(even though i'm not too happy with the solder job) and switching the other 2 wires tomorrow.. too late for me tonight.. dam b33r
p.s. does it matter which leg of the trimmer is ground? or does the middle *have* to be ground?
It's all good...at least it wasn't something that would kill the card!
http://home.comcast.net/~ogrex/dareisayfixed.JPG
fixed.. still a noob job but... the mod seems to be working sweet so far.
sorry for the thread hijacking attempts btw.. this *should* be my last post..
I'll just add some results here after some testing.. and if my comp explodes etc..
*edit* so far error free at 570/1420..@1.7gpu and 2.25vdd.. not that great of clocks but a little better than the 450/1320 I was stuck at without mod... temps are 42c load.. little better than the 85c the stock cooler was doing without mod too..(maze4 block)
haha, way to connect the grounds....important lesson here kids: If you don't know what you are doing....I wouldn't do it (especially with $1000 worth of video cards).
well, valuable lesson...volt-mod guru's should label diagrams!
For a firt time soldering, that ain't such a bad job! i'd ditch the tape and get some shrinkwrap tho!
I don't understand nothing at all, then, was good done the mod ( the first photo i mean ) or wasn't ? I see the same before and after, then why didn't change voltage the first time ? What has changed ? :slapass:
so... new problem.
after doing the mod.. when running 3d mode.. you can hear the vid card at work through the speakers. . . hard to describe it.. when running 3dmark05 with the speakers at full it's kinda like a race car type sound.. revving up and down depending on what it's rendering... with speakers at normal playing games it's not noticable but just knowing it's there is rather annoying... anyway.. I take it this is an emi problem? just wondering if any of you other "wires" people experienced anything like this? or is it just my "most screwed up stuff happening to me imaginable" luck again?(on-board sound btw.. could it be the psu ground doing it? or do the other points all go the same place anyway?)
Edited the pics in a sad attempt to make it easier to see how much of a noob I am. and yes my camera sucks sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by ^don.k's^
i think what you are hearing is the power regulation circuit working hard to deliver the power...i seem to have the same thing happen with my boards. it becomes much more evident as vgpu is increased higher
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Originally Posted by OgreX
Im hoping to get my 256mb card done today. What should I set my Vdimm and Vgpu voltages to? What clocks should I be expecting to push/get?
This will be a watercooled card. I also plan to have a good amount of airflow above and below the card.
~Son
Did a little test two days back. Waiting now for -10c weather on friday and dryice on cpu.
Right now my aircooled 256Mb 7800GTX does 660MHz Core and 1740MHz mem.:slapass:
Anyone ealse?
@Platoon
At what vgpu/vmem do you reach these clock speeds??
I'm testing around myself and I'm currently running at 575/1421 with 1,56vgpu and 2,3vmem (watercooled; memory passive)
hell
1.90vgpu and 2.9vmem :D gonna try 2.0vgpu and 3.0vmem this week maybe lol
Try those clocks with 3DM05 Mother Nature only set to repeat 25 times and see what happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by PlatoonSgtElias
Viper
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Originally Posted by ViperJohn
Is it not better to run the fillrate-test? i tink its more torture for the GPU. In this test, my PC consumes most electric power.
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Originally Posted by Slipknot
Nope. 3DM01se Nature and 3DM03 Mother Nature produce the higher core current draws and core heating.
Viper
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Originally Posted by PlatoonSgtElias
you like to torture your gpu it seems:eek:
How did you get vgpu above 1.85v platoon? I thought OVP kicks in at that voltage?
No offense Slipknot, but VJ has a little more clout when it comes to GPU advice *wink* hehe.....
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Originally Posted by ViperJohn
I ve tried this now, here my messured values:
Fillrate-Test (Multi-Texturing) (run 15times) :
max at 46°C (for a long time) and 420-430W (With screen, router, printer (Standby), ....)
Nature Mark 03 (run 10 times):
max at 45°C (for a short time, the graph changed between 44 and 45°C periodically) and 390-425W. (The more watereffect (broken light) drawn, the higher the consumption)
I think that the pipelines are more asked in Fillrate-Test than in any other tests.
I saw the high meaning of the pipelines in the fillrate-test as i activated 4 pipelines on my old ATI 9500. After activation to 8 pipes, the test run more smoothly than with 4 pipes.
I think that the pipelines are very "hungry" if they are needed.
€dit.: I am using a watercooling-system on my 7800GTX.