Quote Originally Posted by OnDborder
Did you do it?
If so, what is the result?
Slowly finding the balls to be a bit more adventurous and decided to do the Asus P5B Deluxe vdroop pencil mod I used a 2B pencil and about 4 strokes across resistor pictured with yellow line through it below:



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Before vdroop pencil mod

- resistance was DMM measured at 80 ohm
- 1.325v bios set vcore = 1.280-1.288v bios monitored, 1.29v idle/1.27v load Asus PC Probe2 reported.

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After vdroop pencil mod

- resistance was DMM measured at 37.4 ohm
- 1.325v bios set vcore = 1.296v steady bios monitored, 1.30v idle/1.30v load Asus PC Probe2 reported.

I'm happy with that for now a reduction in vdroop by ~0.03v Asus PC Probe2 reported under load. Not going to be too greedy

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Before vdroop pencil mod @1.325v bios set

CPU Prime95 v25.1v small ffts load:


CPU Prime95 v25.1v small ffts post load idle:


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After vdroop pencil mod @1.325v bios set

CPU Prime95 v25.1v small ffts load:


CPU Prime95 v25.1v small ffts post load idle:


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