Volt mod success !!

[Dragonprince]

I decided a couple of weeks back to go ahead and try the volt mod on my FIC AU11 / EPOX 8RDA board since I was tired of looking at others running 200 Mhz FSB and my board was stuck at a lousy 185Mhz. So i went and ordered a nice soldering iron with a couple of needle point tips and went for it...success!!

Attached is a pic of the resistor mod completed. I went with a fixed value instead of a pot. Im stable at 200 Mhz and will try for a bit more after some testing. VDD went from a lousy 1.58 to 1.84 and 200Mhz seems to run stable.

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[filip04]

congrats...
i remember when i did mine... oh boy, i have never seen a soldering iron in my life before that, so i wasted an isa sound card ($5 ) learning how to solder... when i finished, i declared that to be my stupidest thing i've ever done...

my dad knows how to solder and he wouldn't do it for me... "cuz most likely i won't succeed and i don't wanna buy you a new motherboard"... i asked about my chances of success... 3%...

but it works till this day, and its been over a year and a half

hope yours lasts this long also,
Filip

 

[Baowuf]

Sorta reviving a old thread but here goes...

DP do you have that running in Single or Dual Channel at 200mhz? and what R value did you use?

Thanks

 

[Dragonprince]

680 Ohm fixed resistor and it is running in Dual Channel with 2 256M chips in 1 channel and a 512M in the other. No stability issues whatsoever at this point. I have been flying along at 200 FSB for a couple weeks now and everything works great.

 

[Supertrucker]

congrats, i had to shove 1.9v down my nb to get 200 stable in dual channel, cant even get 205, guess ill settle for a 3200+ for now

 

[Dragonprince]

This is gonna sound wierd but I swear my Northbridge chipset is running cooler since I volt modded it. My mofsets dont seem as hot either...before just touching them with my finger tip was painfully hot...now there just warm.