GTX285 various mods.. which may work for GTX260/280/295 also

[MurderCityDevil]

success! picked up a conductive ink pen at, of all places, awful microcenter (neither radioshack or even fry's even knew what I was talking about), and bridged 2/4/12 on my vanilla 285. Checking idle/load volts before resulted in voltages that seemed too high on stock - idle was 1.1-1.19 and load was 1.21. Bridging the first time resulted in a load temp of only 1.23. I figured there was poor contact so I redid it, and now, crazily enough, my load voltage is 1.28! vmem is 2.20. this is without any penciling mods. Is it possible that some cards just have higher voltages for some reason? Either way, 1.28 is very respectable without lowering any resistance. Thanks to napalmv5 and cryptik and everyone else who contributed! On to test my max clocks

edit: forgot to add, this was all done after flashing to a ftw bios. perhaps that's the reason I got such high results?