Asus Striker Extreme vDroop Mod

[slim142]

Hey thanks guys! I will try to get that stuff (4B pencil and multimeter) today to try this out.

Kobalt, everytime I make the pencil marks to the resistors, should the number (lets say 129.5) start going up or down in the multimeter?

Answer me this question and Ill be ready to go!

If for any reason I have any complication, Ill come and ask

I will have this as a reference "100k off the vdroop and 50k for the vcore"

[celemine1Gig]

...Kobalt, everytime I make the pencil marks to the resistors, should the number (lets say 129.5) start going up or down in the multimeter?

Answer me this question and Ill be ready to go!
...

Well, I'm not Kobalt, but I'll still answer you that question. The resistance will go down because that's the only possible consequence. What you do when penciling a line next to the resistor (or whatever part) is creating a resistance in parallel. The rule for parallel resistance is that the total resistance can never exceed the resistance of the smaller (in value, not in size) resistor. That's to say for example, when connecting a 10 Ohm and a 10000 Ohm resistor in parallel, you'll always get a total resistance lower than 10 Ohm. To be exact, it'd be around 9.99 Ohm in the example.

Hope the answer will help you. Good luck with your mod.

BTW, the formula is:

R(parallel)= (R1 * R2) / (R1 + R2)

Increasing the resistance is only possible when adding a resistor in series. In practice this would mean cutting the trace and reconnecting it with a resistor.

[slim142]

Thanks man, I appreciate your help too.

Gonan try this as soon as I can, I really hate this vdroop!