The Power of Titan!!!

[rbuass]

Hi, friends of KPC.
The reason we are doing this thread is to tell you about our "Titan's" experience, and also to alert the extreme overclockers to take care with the fragile Titan's PWM.
First of all, we tested the videocard in the air, and we were not happy to know the card coud not surpass 1175 Mhz / 1700 Mhz.
The videocard is a gift from Zotac Miami (very thanks to Zotac)... and since the videocard cost is about USD 2000 (or more) in Brazil, we noticed will be impossible to play SLI... and sure... 3 or 4 way.
Regardless all.... we decided to try to get the max of the card.

Phase 1 - Hardmodding

We did try the hardmodding (VGPU, VRAM and VPLL... also OCP and Thermal Shutdown)...
I often liked to make a control panel, to have easier acess to the trimpot and also measure points.
Looks like a functional and nice hardmod...





















Bad surprise

After we run 1345 Mhz... and get more than 18K on 3Dmark11, we (me and Schenckel) decided to put a lit bit more voltage... since we were under LN2...
So... suddenly, after 10 minutes benching and only about 10 seconds after start 3DMark11... videocard was death.
We measure the resistence and noticed the card was shorted.
OMG... to lose a VERY EXPENSIVE videocard in only a few minutes, was really a bad thing... but after to test the components, we could know that only one phase was death.




Still had a hope

Later that nigh in Brazil..... I see in the morning in Taiwan, ... TiN gave us a great help, and informed PWRGD point to cut... so, we could enable the Zoombie.
We started to hardmod again the card about 1:00 AM... and finally finished and tested the card about 6:00 AM... really tired out...
After to test and check it was working... its time to sleep 3 or 4 hours to finally try the Titan.

That's the result:



















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And that's the scores we got





We know nothing compares with a magic hardmods done by TiN and Shammy... but we were happy that we made.
Unfortunately, LN2 is too expensive and we could not afford lots of LN2...
This is all we got with about 35 Lits...
Titan is a ferocious consumer of nitrogen... but bring us a lot of fun...

Best wishes from Brazil

[Ivanlabrie]

Impressive scores!

Handling that zombie looks like a PITA man...major props.
Cheers from Argentina

[hersounds]

Amazing work my friend example that not surrender....nice nice work!

[FlanK3r]

very nice, I have respect with all this vmods! Nice work!

[xdan]

At what voltage did the card died?
Anyway respect for your hard work but the modding with Evga VRM was a little complicated, may be first it would have been better to try stock VRM because it's not that bad.
Master poparamiro, 1227/1400 1.328v on air, 3dmark'03, stock VRM, 8C.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcHKe...layer_embedded

It was good that you could revive the card and get some results.

[SoF]

incredible work

[rbuass]

At what voltage did the card died?
Anyway respect for your hard work but the modding with Evga VRM was a little complicated, may be first it would have been better to try stock VRM because it's not that bad.
Master poparamiro, 1227/1400 1.328v on air, 3dmark'03, stock VRM, 8C.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcHKe...layer_embedded

It was good that you could revive the card and get some results.

We killed the card in LN2... 1.46V in 10 seconds..... PWM death...
If I was you, do not go more than 1.38V...maybe 1.4V even with liquid nitrogen.
To be cold... don't mean it will support more voltage... and also, we consider 1.32 or even 1.46V not enough to a 1000 USD card.

[chispy]

Great work Ronaldo , i'm glad the card still alive after you guys made Zombie card , awesome volt mods job , nice scores.

Regards: Angelo

[MaJ0r]

Nice work! Which Vgpu did you use after zombified Titan?

[rbuass]

Thanks friends

1.73V full load... almost set 2V to Epower... huge drop regardless all.... -140?C average ... CBB less than 50?C





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[Buckeye]

Nice work Ronaldo, crazy stuff there for sure !

[BenchZowner]

Like I told you on FB, great work man, great work

[subzero 1979]

great work man

[Movieman]

[ZenEffect]

Kill a $1000 card? bring it back to life then torture it some more?

Ronaldo = Hero

great scores friend! Digging the soldering work too. does the zombie still live?

[AH64]

That's nuts, man. Great work.

[dewastator]

Kitchen mix OC, amazing job - more like you.

[kiwi]

Now this is rare, some serious hard modding I don't think I have ever seen anything like this on this forum as the stuff in your posted pictures

[zalbard]

Great job! Now that's the true spirit of xtreme overclocking!

[rbuass]

The card worked great after zoombie;



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I think is the limit of the card... That's a gift from Zotac.


@ ZenEffect --- you are a great bencher bro... unforgetable Los Angeles session in your home...
I hope to see you soon... will go to USA, CA, before july.



Best wishes for all

[rintamarotta]

Omg that Titan and its mods..
GJ