any1 here know if the core 2 extreme was anygood? its the x6800 C2D
 
looked on HWbot and was a lil un impressed.... the highest on dice was 5ghz, i have had my E8500 upto 4.8 on air.....
 
are the wolfdales just better or am i missing something?
 

hellshealer

also tyger, im looking at your old guide for the GTX 285 and the resister you have to put the pot on is reading 5.2 ohms. so by the formula i should put a 100ohm pot on it but you have a 20ohm pot, this one confuses me ><

Umm...
 
Wow.  I have forgotten most of what I knew about the GTX 285.  I just remember that it had a very low resistance between the voltage output at the inductors and voltage feedback to the voltage controller chip which required a low resistance potentiometer to drop enough voltage to ground to get the desired effect.

hellshealer

well im back to volt modding atm and my solering iron SUCKS!!!

also i cant sem to get any voltage, im getting like .07v atm its weird

The card's overcurrent protection may have kicked in if you went too extreme.  Overcurrent protection shuts the card off in the manner you are noticing.  Either that, or you wrecked your card.  
 
Try less voltage.  If it starts working with less voltage, then you will need an overcurrent protection mod to get the card working at the high voltage setting you were trying to use.

ty_ger07

hellshealer

well im back to volt modding atm and my solering iron SUCKS!!!

also i cant sem to get any voltage, im getting like .07v atm its weird

The card's overcurrent protection may have kicked in if you went too extreme.  Overcurrent protection shuts the card off in the manner you are noticing.  Either that, or you wrecked your card.  

Try less voltage.  If it starts working with less voltage, then you will need an overcurrent protection mod to get the card working at the high voltage setting you were trying to use.

 
 
but its a 7600 gt....... i didnt think they had OCP....
 
on another note where did you get your singlestage cooler and how much?
 

hellshealer

ty_ger07

hellshealer

well im back to volt modding atm and my solering iron SUCKS!!!

also i cant sem to get any voltage, im getting like .07v atm its weird

The card's overcurrent protection may have kicked in if you went too extreme.  Overcurrent protection shuts the card off in the manner you are noticing.  Either that, or you wrecked your card.  

Try less voltage.  If it starts working with less voltage, then you will need an overcurrent protection mod to get the card working at the high voltage setting you were trying to use.

 

but its a 7600 gt....... i didnt think they had OCP....

 
 
Oh.  I didn't notice.  I have a 7600 GT as well.  1.7v is no problem with my 7600GT.  Maybe you did toast it then.  Try removing the mod and see if it still works.
 
EDIT:  My 7600GT looks totally different though.
 

on another note where did you get your singlestage cooler and how much?

 
One was bought used in the Marketplace in this forum and then fixed up by someone recommended by Johnksss when it broke and the other was bought new from Scott Dumper but he said he won't be making them any more.

i think its the wrong mesurement point myself, im getting less than .1 of a volt..... the cards run at 1.2
 

unless i did fry the controler chip, the big tip on my iron makes it almost impossible to use :S

Ok Nateman, here is my 8800GT volt mod pic you wanted to see.
 

 
I found out that hot glue is an amazingly useful tool for holding wires in place to prepare them for soldering and secure the volt mod against accidentally tugging the wire free from its solder joint.
 
I could imagine that people could use hot glue to perform a reversible 'temporary solderless mod' which could be completely reversible without leaving any traces of the mod ever existing.

hellshealer

also tyger, im looking at your old guide for the GTX 285 and the resister you have to put the pot on is reading 5.2 ohms. so by the formula i should put a 100ohm pot on it but you have a 20ohm pot, this one confuses me ><

Ok...
 
I looked at my volt mod guide to refresh my memory:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110950
 
Yes, I recommend using a 100 ohm potentiometer.  I think what I was trying to say was that around 20ohms, the core voltage would be around 1.25v which is normally considered a safe long term limit for air cooling.


 
The additional resistors you see soldered in series and parallel with the potentiometer are optional and help make the potentiometer less sensitive and prevent against accidentally dropping the resistance too low.  If you don't use resistors, I would just use a 100 ohm potentiometer starting out at highest resistance setting and slowly drop the resistance while monitoring the GPU core voltage.

Hmm. Gigabyte P67-UD7 board incoming, should be BNIB, probably 2-3 weeks. IB is projected to work on it so I may well get a 3770K.
 
Edit: Never mind, misread what board it was.