ATI 4850/4870 voltmod thread

[dejanh]

Dejanh, don't spam the entire forum with that same post. pick one thread and leave it there.

Sorry, I got carried away when I saw that somebody actually brought this thing to light in a more official manner

It follows the reference design... so it shouldn't happen only w/ diamond.
Anyway, even u got better cooling u won't made the VRM stronger, and that's the point, u will still having to choose if u wanna clock the gpu or the memory, u still worried that u got a weak overloaded noisy digital VRM w/ only 3 phases...

Exception to the new Gainward Goldensample 4870, it have the same analog 4 phases vrm as the 4850 but w/ better and bigger ferrite chokes and mosfets, better and all solids capacitors, 8pin PCI-e conector and a plus of DDR5.

Thank you Barr3l. Clearly some of these guys do not get the point at all...not my problem I guess. Thanks

Speaking of which, the details of the Gainward card look promising for the Palit Sonic Dual Edition as it seems to be the same card Can't wait to see how high I can push this one. The XOC BE capped out at about 860/1160 with maximum stable voltage of about 1.35-1.37V. Not much gain considering the card is voltmodded

Edit: Oh yeah, looks like the Palit card is the same as the Gainward. A review is up, it's in Thai but at least you can see the card nicely. No more digital VRMs baby! The custom designed sink looks sweet too, full coverage of the PCB, front to back See here...

http://www.unlimitpc.com/index.php?n...pid=111&page=1