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    Anyone got measured resistance before and after the vdroop mod so i know what to aim for?
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    Yes you are correct.
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    has anyone got better oc's by doing the pencil mod?
    i am starting to lose faith in my 680i...
    all i can get outta this is 400x8, which is barely stable
    might have to move on to p35...
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    No love for you on the 680i either hey icon57? Its too bad because for what is supposed to be the premier Quad Core O.C board I was not impressed with mine!

    I am getting my Abit IP35 Pro today I will let you know what I think of it, I mean for under $200.00 its a steal from what I can see and the amount of people that have great results with it in 98% that are happy at least.

    D.F.I P35 is the way to go but you really cannot get it right now its in very high demand and no one is selling it ATM
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    i love my 680i, the only issue i have isthe multi reverts to 6x sometimes, but a restart fixes it, its quiet annoying tho.

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    sweet, im going to try the vdroop mod tonight. i have one of the worst boards for vdroop, bios > -0.05 in windows > -0.05 under load = a whole 0.1 off. I have to run 1.5v in bios to get 1.4v under load. this might give me stability above 3.6 ghz finally!




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    has anyone measured their resistance with a multimeter? I see that it should be 100K after the pencil mod. Is the resistance higher or lower before the pencil mod?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brother Esau View Post
    No love for you on the 680i either hey icon57? Its too bad because for what is supposed to be the premier Quad Core O.C board I was not impressed with mine!

    I am getting my Abit IP35 Pro today I will let you know what I think of it, I mean for under $200.00 its a steal from what I can see and the amount of people that have great results with it in 98% that are happy at least.

    D.F.I P35 is the way to go but you really cannot get it right now its in very high demand and no one is selling it ATM
    yeah, its either my cpu, or the limits of the mobo...at this point, i am willing to bet its the mobo....
    i am interested to see what your take is on the abit, i am watching that thread as well. i have not used abit since the max3 days of skt 478
    i have really toyed with the idea of the gigabyte DS3, there is an open box on the egg for 121.00.
    i think the p35 will be very short lived as we head into Q4, so i dont want to invest too much in it.
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    I have tried my Q6600 B3 & G0 on this board and it craps out at exactly the same points @ X9 & X8 Multi on both B3 & G0 chips so no doubt in my mind its the board for sure! Although I must admit its a hell of a great overclocker for Dual Core
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    I will have the IP35 Pro in a couple of hours and I have never owned a abit before well not a overclocking board at least.
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    About to do this mod, but can someone tell me how I can verify what model I have ? It says I need a 00 revision or whatever, I have the T1/A1 (same board), but I don't know anything about which revision. In CPU-Z, it says my board is A2 revision.

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    Quote Originally Posted by icon57 View Post
    yeah, its either my cpu, or the limits of the mobo...at this point, i am willing to bet its the mobo....
    i am interested to see what your take is on the abit, i am watching that thread as well. i have not used abit since the max3 days of skt 478
    i have really toyed with the idea of the gigabyte DS3, there is an open box on the egg for 121.00.
    i think the p35 will be very short lived as we head into Q4, so i dont want to invest too much in it.
    Did you try going straight to 3600mhz? There's some holes you have to jump over. Try 1.46vcore, 1.4v for FSB, then just go straight to 1600mh FSB (or 400FSB QDR) with a 9x multi. (watching temps of course)

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    Quote Originally Posted by treatmentx View Post
    About to do this mod, but can someone tell me how I can verify what model I have ? It says I need a 00 revision or whatever, I have the T1/A1 (same board), but I don't know anything about which revision. In CPU-Z, it says my board is A2 revision.
    Thats the latest revision. There are only two boards - AR/TR and A1/T1. The reference to '00' I think is D00. The earlier boards were C00 in reference to the first 3 letters on the serial next to the ram slots.

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    Gar and others, Do you know what causes the board (if it is teh Board) to change the muilti on its own. I have had the same thing happen, it would go from 6x when i checked it in windows, then another time while in bios it was at 8x. it was very confusing since i knwo i did nto change it, is there sum kind of auto multiplier? that maybe changes it depending on heat or how it feels, haha.

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    intel speed step

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    Quote Originally Posted by skndvr View Post
    Gar and others, Do you know what causes the board (if it is teh Board) to change the muilti on its own. I have had the same thing happen, it would go from 6x when i checked it in windows, then another time while in bios it was at 8x. it was very confusing since i knwo i did nto change it, is there sum kind of auto multiplier? that maybe changes it depending on heat or how it feels, haha.
    Naw dude, even with speedstep and rest of that junk disabled, it changes the multi sometimes and a restart is needed........hope a new bios will fix this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by treatmentx View Post
    Did you try going straight to 3600mhz? There's some holes you have to jump over. Try 1.46vcore, 1.4v for FSB, then just go straight to 1600mh FSB (or 400FSB QDR) with a 9x multi. (watching temps of course)
    lol, yes, i know all about the holes in the fsb...i can do 3.6 no prob, but not stable, and i have to use high volts, just to get me there...seems no matter what i tweak, i just cant get 100% stable on this mobo.
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    The V Mod worked perfectly on EVGA A1 680i. Droop has disappeared, just brushed over the points a few times, powered on, checked droop using speedfan. Brushed across a few more times - hey presto droop gone.

    To get 400+ FSB sable I use the following volts
    FSB 1.4
    SPP 1.55
    SPP-MCP 1.55
    MCP 1.6

    Using these settings I get my G0 Q6600 stable @3.8ghz using only 1.475v
    Benchmarks here we come.
    Quote Originally Posted by zodduska View Post
    did the vdroop mod with some random hello kitty pencil, worked great. thanks!
    Quote Originally Posted by GRAFiZ View Post
    I have it on high authority that if a "Hello Kitty" pencil is used, you can expect an overclock of nearly 10% greater then that of a standard pencil.


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    Quote Originally Posted by skndvr View Post
    Gar and others, Do you know what causes the board (if it is teh Board) to change the muilti on its own. I have had the same thing happen, it would go from 6x when i checked it in windows, then another time while in bios it was at 8x. it was very confusing since i knwo i did nto change it, is there sum kind of auto multiplier? that maybe changes it depending on heat or how it feels, haha.
    I'm pretty sure it's a P30 bios issue. It never did that to me on any other bios.
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    thanks for the voltages! finally got mine 400+ fsb stable after two weeks of tweaking.

    Quote Originally Posted by doghouse View Post
    The V Mod worked perfectly on EVGA A1 680i. Droop has disappeared, just brushed over the points a few times, powered on, checked droop using speedfan. Brushed across a few more times - hey presto droop gone.

    To get 400+ FSB sable I use the following volts
    FSB 1.4
    SPP 1.55
    SPP-MCP 1.55
    MCP 1.6

    Using these settings I get my G0 Q6600 stable @3.8ghz using only 1.475v
    Benchmarks here we come.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zodduska View Post
    thanks for the voltages! finally got mine 400+ fsb stable after two weeks of tweaking.
    glad to help - Enjoy
    Quote Originally Posted by zodduska View Post
    did the vdroop mod with some random hello kitty pencil, worked great. thanks!
    Quote Originally Posted by GRAFiZ View Post
    I have it on high authority that if a "Hello Kitty" pencil is used, you can expect an overclock of nearly 10% greater then that of a standard pencil.


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    Ok guys, quick advice, go back to P28 bios......the multi dropping issue is gone.....3d is faster in CSS, and 3dmark......system seems to be smoother, wayyy smoother, man P30 bios stinks....P28 stable at 3.5ghz.

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    That's odd. I don't have that multi-dropping issue unless I turn on C1E/Speedstep, which I do anyways... if you turn off both C1E/Speedstep, it goes away... at least for me. *shrug*... but I leave my computer on all the time to upload/download crap, so powersavings is a welcome.

    and I could get 3.8 on the P30.... though I'm waiting on the vdroop mod clarification than that should be help in achieving 4.0ghz

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    Ok guys here is a teaser of my CPU - if I just upgraded my CPU block from Storm to a DTek Fusion. Bios setting are as per the screenshot.

    G0-Q66000/EVGA A1 - P30/L724A754/Packed 08/09/2007/


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    Quote Originally Posted by zodduska View Post
    did the vdroop mod with some random hello kitty pencil, worked great. thanks!
    Quote Originally Posted by GRAFiZ View Post
    I have it on high authority that if a "Hello Kitty" pencil is used, you can expect an overclock of nearly 10% greater then that of a standard pencil.


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    Ok, i'm about to do the vdroop mod. ANY #2 pencil is cool right? =| I heard it's suppose to be #2 HB, or is it the same thing? And can someone clarify, it looks like i'm drawing OVER the resistor??

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