GTX285 various mods.. which may work for GTX260/280/295 also

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EDIT: nevermind, vdiff mod is the shading of the resistor..I'll try to get it lower. as explained by Napalm, don't go lower than 200ohms, currently I'm at 340...I'll try to get it down to 300 and retest to see if it makes a difference. If I hit 1.27 then I know I'm on to something.

At 300ohm I got 1.28v load with Furmark, but other less intesive apps. around 1.25v. I wanted to try and get 1.28v when running something other than Furmark, so I brought it down to 200ohm.........no difference. Not sure why some of us are having issues with this, but its a little strange.

I have a similar question - anyone know what the max safe voltage is for the 285? I would assume its less than what the voltage tuner gave for the 280 (1.3v) since a 55nm core is more sensitive to voltage?

Is running 1.25 idle and 1.28 load 24/7 going to reduce the life of the card, or is this within limits? I may just go ahead and do the pencil mod to try and get 800 core.

Only time will tell, we are the guinea pigs