I've never quite understood why people pay $100+ more on a bleeding edge piece of hardware for a 25% performance increase or start messing around with amateur electronics, soldering guns and the like for a similar increase. |
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Anyone else here ever volt modded a graphics card? Well I decided to dabble in it just for fun. I bought myself a geforce 7900gt about 6 months ago and had been messing with the volt modding since the beginning. I used a silver-something another pen that let's you draw circuits to attach components. Well first I bumped it up to 1.4V, (from the default 1.2V) and it worked fine, then to 1.5V, and it worked fine. Well after a while of 1.5V I started getting occasional glitches in my games; pixels would occasionally shoot out like a laser beam and such. So I put it back down to 1.4V. Then I concluded the problem was my processor, so I downclocked it from the BIOS and clocked my geforce up to 1.55V. Well, I think it was the constant voltage changes that did it in. After I realized the graphics glitches were becoming more numerous I wiped off all traces of the silver pen, but my card was still stuck at 1.4V instead of going down to the original 1.2V. And the graphics glitches got worse. I used ATITools to test for artifacts and immediately when loaded the whole artifact screen goes yellow (yes, that's really bad). Well now my games are unplayable and I'm in the market for a new card. |
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I've never quite understood why people pay $100+ more on a bleeding edge piece of hardware for a 25% performance increase or start messing around with amateur electronics, soldering guns and the like for a similar increase. |
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Last edited by Identity X; 04-14-2008 at 02:35 PM.
hmm im saving up for a cool new computer for gaming( gonna spend like £800 when i have it). Anyway i wouldn't overclock. i don't see the need apart from to show off really. |
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I would highly recommend NOT messing with voltages |
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I've done it with a 7900GS and 7900GT. But I did have Zalman VF900 coolers on them, so I ran 1.55V through them, and they peaked at 65-70C during the summer. So I was within temperature limits. |
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8800GTs are like $100 now aren't they? Best Nvidia deal for a long time. |
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yeah my friend just got a 512mb 8800GT, the company is like BFG or XFX or something( really their basically all the same, sometimes for £15 more one companies card will be a tiny tiny bit faster, but generally there's not much in it, unless it clearly states it's been way overclocked, then you'd probably see some performance boost). Anyways she has this game called Spellforce, when she used to play on her old computer it turned into like a slideshow, like 4 frames a second kinda thing. Now it just does not slow down, it's really something. |
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