Antec TruePower 550 PSU Volt mods ? ~ PART II ~

Using an extender is just like if you snipped all hte wires and sodlered longer wires to it. The extender does what it is suppose to do...make your ATX cable longer in instances where it doesnt reach for whatever reason from the psu to the motherboard.

If you wanted higher rails on the psu, you would still need to modify the extender...which is the point I thought. You buy the extender, make sure it has all the wires your atx connector has, then mod the extender versus the cable bundle from your psu so that you do not kill the psu warranty.

Modding an extender won't work because the sense lines connect to their corresponding rails at the ATX connector, so there is no reason to have the extra sense wire on the extender (it wouldn't make sense). If the extender for some reason did have extra sense wires, they would be non-functional as sense wires and connecting them to ground would be 'bad' (same effect as connecting the rail to ground).

MentholMoose is right, any sense wires on an extender would NOT have a distinct path back to the circuit board on the PSU, grounding sense wires on an extender would be also grounding the rail - not good!

Ahhh, hadn't thought about that aspect.

Thats what happens when you are typing at 4am....only one part of my body works after 3am and its usually my fingers, not my brain.

What happens if you ground Hell-Fire with the other end of a Sam Adams? A tired, blurry eyed modder.

See I was thinking more along the lines of since all the sense wires trminate at the same point , maybe it would work , but then again the wires in the ATX extender will actually have power running thru them and as Menthol said also - the sense lines are actually running to the PSU .. Oh well , was just a thought ..
MY THREAD IS 2 PAGES LONG !! Yippee..

I am in the process of remodding my TP550 and can pot pics here if you want them added to your thread StinkN1. =)

Had to rip my rig apart so I could mount my new water/tec system into it...figured I would remod my psu while I waited on a few parts to get here from Swifty/2CoolTek/Cooltechnica.

MentholMoose's "moose" has 2 mouths....lol. And who said radiation and a hole in the ozone was bad for anyone. :hehe:

Yes Hell fire ! Post pics and enhance my oh so plain thread !! please grace it with your photage !!
Thanx !

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Originally posted by StinkN1
Yes Hell fire ! Post pics and enhance my oh so plain thread !! please grace it with your photage !!
Thanx !

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LOL!

Please dont start sacrificing cows and pigs just yet. I only learned what I am sharing here from other modders here at the wonderful land called XtremeSystems...and I have lots more to learn.

Of course I will post pics.

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Originally posted by Hëll ‡ Fîrë
Of course I will post pics.

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:banana3: :banana: :YIPPIE: :banana: :bananal: :owned: :sick: :devil: :shrug: :ROTF:

You can ground the trimmers to a common ground (the same point).

At least now I know XS isnt sending me emails when i get a PM anymore.. :smileysex

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Originally posted by Malves
Antec True Power models have 3 individual dedicated circuits.

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Malves, sorry the off topic, but the woman in your logo is Malu Mader, isn´t it ?
She is wonderful:D

I have tried it with my tp380w and it worked.
I'm currently running 3.45 ,5.3 and 12.40 (shifts between 12.34-12.40 :( ) I just used 47 fixed with an 10K VR and the read outs where measured with an MM without the PSU being hooked up to the mobo.

Bios tells me 5.3 and 12.4 (cant see 3.3line current state dough)

I only have an Vcore of 1.675, this does however run @1.664-1.680...

My Vdimm always bin 2.82-2.83 and I was hoping after upping the 3.3rail I would get closer to 2.9 , and words on that? (and max 3.3 ?)

Only thing a regret is not making a way to readout the 3.3rail (while hooked up)

Before the mod I had these rails: 3.29, 5.10, 12.09
I doubt I'le get better fsb now (nanya pc2700 :sick: )

I guess there isn't a way around a Vdd mod (I'm getting some high end not for the nanya :) )

Forgot to mention I used an molex connector with only a ground and 12V wire for fan use as ground since I had no use for them

stick a paperclip into the atx connector and hold it to the DMM tip to check the 3.3 rail.

Would it matter if u leave the hdd hooked up to the psu?
[s] Don't think I'le be upping the 3.3 anymore as its already at ~3.5V [/s] It's on 3.63 :D (still that 2.82-.83 Vdimm is bugging me...

12 is running at 13.3V and 5@5.5 but
My radeon likes it
9800SE passes 3dmark with no artifacts 425/375 stock cooling and softmodded :YIPPIE:

I like this modding, next is my R9800Se and Vdimm :)
I'le practice on some old 486 hardware first :p:

Yeah, radeons react well to high 5v lines.

2.82.2.83vdimm fluctuation is nothing. 2.72-2.83 would be, though.

Running 3.6 ;5.5 and 13V rails so thats kinda high...
Should I lover the values or is it ok?

Or is it ok to go higher or is it not worth it?

What would be the first thing to go (wrong)?
At what signs should I be looking for?

Should be fine,

5.2/3.45/12.8 if you want to be safer.