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[Yellowbeard]

done some more testing on my single stage last night

my first ever voltmod as well
did vcore mod on 8800GT card i was benching on and went from 700MHz core to 800MHz core

Very cool Dino! How easy was the mod? And, what was the original voltage and what did you raise it to? Got a link to a "how to" so easy a chimp can do it?

[dinos22]

Very cool Dino! How easy was the mod? And, what was the original voltage and what did you raise it to? Got a link to a "how to" so easy a chimp can do it?

hehe Mike
i'm a volt mod chimp too lol
i just thought it if i don't try a mod now i will always keep asking ppl to do it for me
how lame is that

basically all you need is a low wattage soldering iron with a fine tip (like pencil type tips)

you need a steady hand (or do what i do and have both elbows on the desk while soldering

in terms of knowing what to solder to what basically all the guys that create solder mod threads tell you where so for example i searched XS for 8800GT mods and went to largon's and T_M's thread and looked at the pics

Largon's thread was good for actual mods spots and Tim's thread was good to see which wire goes where (for us dumbasses hahah)

make sure you measure resistance before and after mod too (VERY IMPORTANT) normally if you get the correct VR it will be identical as they are wound back all the way >> worth checking hehehe


default volts for 8800GT are 1.06v idle / 1.111v load

i pushed it to 1.277v load with 800MHz core (core speed affects volts your GPU core gets >> at stock speed my load volts are 1.25/1.26 somewhere

i will need better cooling to push this core more seriously

actually i might strap Corsair Nautilus to it
afterall that's what it's there for (great allrounders those coolers)