Tutorial: How to softmod to ANY VGPU you want without hardmods! (1.3~1.6v or more)

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He, he my poor old 2160 needs 1,55v to get "bencheble" on this board. Just needed 1,5v on my Maximus Extreme. The board I´m using now is a m-atx MB, that has a terrible v-droop, Thats why I need to set the v-core that high. 1,55 v becomes 1,5v in windows. And when you push it, the v-core droops down to 1,46 v and thats with a vdrop-mod . Anyway, this m-atx board is a very impressive in many other ways. Before the Maximus Gene, and the DFI p45 matx boards came out I considerd this to be the best matx for oc:ing on the market (along with the P5E-VM HDMI of course).

Ok, now I´m benching in the background, I see a very good sign already. The framerate in the begining of 3dmark06 went up to 106, before I tuned my pc up it didnt got over 100.

Oh, no...now it died on me..

Okay, lets give it another try..Some times I get so bored with this Booting, booting and booting. I upped the v-core to 1,575..Do you think my ninja mini can handle that? I´m not so sure myself, now i´m up and running again, please let my bench at least one time with my cpu at 3,6 ghz!!....Its running now again, The ship lands...the soliders are shooting at each other....a mad robot with a helicopter gun kills everyone...I like the fireflies better....ok....fireflys now..looks good...What the H*ll..

I´m gonna call it for today I think. Just one more try..Back at 3,5 ghz, booting.. Ok, my computer have gone completly mad, I feel a strong urge to smash it to pieces. I think I will call it for today, before I do something I will regret. Darn Fireflies.



Next Day:

Hello again. Today I have switched out my old cpu against a e5200. And I can say for sure that the e2160 at 3,51 was a real bottleneck on my system. Both are IHS-less so I can push em pretty hard on air alone. I direcly went in to the bios and set my E5200 to 4.0 Ghz, and wow, that alone gave me almost 3000 points extra in 06. Now its starting to look better! I have played around with the settings a bit, Its pretty strange but for a while yesterday I got My4870 stable at 856 Mhz. To day its only good for 849-852.

My Benching today:

E2160 849 - -983 3dmark06 - 14194 Maxed out cpu at 3,51 Ghz.

Switched to:

E5200 849 - - 983 16998 Points!! Cpu at 4,1 Ghz, Pci-e at 110 Mhz


Now I must of course get over 17000, which was not as easy as it sounds. Usally I dont push my 5200 over 4,0 Ghz since I must give it over 1,47 volt for that. Thats a little bit high for a 45nm, but today I Totally maxed it out (on Air) at 4,1 ghz, thats what gave me 16998 points. I have also pushed the Pci-e bus to 110 mhz. I tried some trix but I only got: 16986, 16974 and so on.

I decided to try and push the Pci-e bus some more to get those extra points. Since it is a PCI-e 1.0 on this board I figured I could win some performace here. I Also got my cpu up to 4,12 Ghz, he, he.

That actually did the trick:

Gpu: 849 - 983, Cpu: 4,12 Ghz, Pci-e: 115 Mhz = 17093 3Dmark06 and a respectable 9257 Performance at Vantage

Gpu: 849 - 983, Cpu: 4,12 Ghz, Pci-e: 120 Mhz = 17161 And 9308 vantage

Now I´m starting to like my pc again

Gpu: 849 - 983, Cpu: 4,12 Ghz, Pci-e: 130 Mhz = Boot failure + Lost my SATA harddrive in bios for a while, when I lowered it to 120 it came back, thank god.


One more try, now that I know that the rest of my system is at its peak Oc, I´m gonna give the gpu one more chance:

Gpu: 852 - 983, cpu:4,12, pci-e 120 = 17199 at 06 And 9272


I´m ok with these results and I´m sure this will give me quite a boost at Crysis and Warhead, but still, Why cant my 4870 handle more than 1,36 volts?