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GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L VOLT MOD - PENCIL MOD - HARD MOD FOUND!
!!DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!!
Well its been a long time coming. I know LOTS of people are looking this mod. I spend a ton of time reading poking going back and reading some more poking trying different things reading poking some more reading then at last finding it.
I would like to take the time to thank nd4spdbh2. He gave me a big push to get her done by taking any photo i needed at outstanding quality. This saved me a lot of time for taking notes and also on the eyes. He also did the water markings in the pics. Nice job buddy!
Now I must tell you that I tested the mod on my mobo with a e2180.
When testing I had the voltage set at 1.55625 in the BIOS. In windows CPU-Z read the voltage at 1.504 with NO LOAD. At FULL load CPU-Z read 1.472.
Pretty bad Vdroop under load.
After running a pencil over the area I still had Vdroop but not as bad! same settings in the BIOS same CPU-Z idle readings in Windows.
My Vdroop went from 1.504 to 1.488. Granted some droop still but not as much. I did have to run the pencil over the resistor a lot. I ran the pencil over the resistor a little during testing and was still drooping down to 1.472 but with a bounce back to 1.488 under full load. This was fixed by adding more graphite to the resistor.
Heres the pics.
The area you are looking for is between the ram slots and the CPU fan plug. it will have no number or marking on it. its just a little black resistor.
For BIG pic click the pic
A MUST HAVE TOOL FOR THIS MOD AND ITS 20 BUCKS!
http://www.radioshack.com/product/i...kw=multimeter&kw=multimeter&parentPage=search
Let me know how it works for you.
!!DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!!
Well its been a long time coming. I know LOTS of people are looking this mod. I spend a ton of time reading poking going back and reading some more poking trying different things reading poking some more reading then at last finding it.
I would like to take the time to thank nd4spdbh2. He gave me a big push to get her done by taking any photo i needed at outstanding quality. This saved me a lot of time for taking notes and also on the eyes. He also did the water markings in the pics. Nice job buddy!
Now I must tell you that I tested the mod on my mobo with a e2180.
When testing I had the voltage set at 1.55625 in the BIOS. In windows CPU-Z read the voltage at 1.504 with NO LOAD. At FULL load CPU-Z read 1.472.
Pretty bad Vdroop under load.
After running a pencil over the area I still had Vdroop but not as bad! same settings in the BIOS same CPU-Z idle readings in Windows.
My Vdroop went from 1.504 to 1.488. Granted some droop still but not as much. I did have to run the pencil over the resistor a lot. I ran the pencil over the resistor a little during testing and was still drooping down to 1.472 but with a bounce back to 1.488 under full load. This was fixed by adding more graphite to the resistor.
Heres the pics.
The area you are looking for is between the ram slots and the CPU fan plug. it will have no number or marking on it. its just a little black resistor.
For BIG pic click the pic
NO do NOT HAVE THE COMPUTER ON, take the board out to measure and pencil the resistor down.
You really need a multi meter, they are all of 5-10 bucks for a halfway decent one. then its easy to see how much of a difference your making, it took A LOT of penceling for me to get down to 900ohms from 1950ish and even more to get down to 320 ohms.
NOTE: the correct Ohm reading for a proper vdroop mod will vary between board to board and depend on what cpu your running and its current draw. Proper technique is KEY, you must only pencil the resistor the least ammount possible that you need to make vdroop dissapear and or just barly be visible (.008v vdroop). DO NOT PENCIL TO MUCH, as we do not know the effects of going "too far".
Example: In my tests on my HTPC's setup, @ 910 ohms i only expierenced a .016V vdroop, compared to the previous .032V vdroop, @ 910ohms it also raised my idle voltage closer to the bios set voltage.
Example 2: In my second test i penciled down to 320 Ohms, this got rid of vdroop completely, so i took the board back out and backed off to 600 ohms, and @ 600 ohms i still did not have any fluctuation between idle and load, @ 700 i still expierenced no vdroop, so i took it up to 800ohms and expierenced a .008Vdroop, and in the end i finally setteled on 750 ohms, which is just on the edge of not having any vdroop and having .008V.
Essientally you want to pencil the resistor so your right on the edge of no vdroop and VERY little vdroop.
you guys going into this blind is not a good idea, you MUST have a multi meter and know how to use it to do this properly, there is no set number of pencil strokes due to multiple variances, so PLEASE stop asking the rediculous "how many times should i draw over the resistor" type of questions.
There is a certain procedure you must do to preform this mod, you must take premod readings, then measure the resistor in stock state, then pencil resistor down to about 1k, take postmod readings if vdroop is still too much pencil down 100ohms at a time.
A MUST HAVE TOOL FOR THIS MOD AND ITS 20 BUCKS!
http://www.radioshack.com/product/i...kw=multimeter&kw=multimeter&parentPage=search
pff not even that much.... harbor frieght = 3.99
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=92020
might not be the best but it will be very very close to spot on.
Let me know how it works for you.
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