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Well, I haven't played the past 2 weeks because my Radeon 9700 pro is toast. Did the voltage mod and it was fine for 6 months until I dropped the soldering iron on it while redoing the soldering. It must have gouged out a little piece of the board or a trace or something... sigh. All my fault, I know, I know... Butttttt...


I've been saving up for another car, so I had the extra 3 bills to get a 9800 PRO yesterday (my b-day present for me, lol) :p . I'm not going to go solder on the card directly now, I think I've learned my lesson there, but I did voltmod the vcore, and overclocked it to 450/340. Did the voltmod w/ a smd grabber, the card is running fairly cool still, but more cooling would help. . Putting a waterblock/TEC on it very soon, hoping to get over 500 core. I'm also planning on not messing this one up, lol. The 9700 was good enough for me, I got a 400/340 overclock, i'd rather I didn't mess it up, but oh well.


Just wondering if anyone else voltmods their stuff or uses watercooling. I have voltmods on my mobo, and all my old vid cards, lol. The 9700 was the 1st one i messed up, and it didn't even fry, it was my mistake for dropping the hot iron on it. Ahh yes, I'm a bonafide computer geek now. Wasn't like this a year ago, I tell ya.

why would you solder the card on the mobo?

No , you solder resistors on the mobo, and you can do the same thing on the vid card too. It lets you get higher overclocks by raising the voltage .

i'll stick to doing absolutely nothing about it

Overclocking may get higher performance, but it kills the card faster.

/me thinks there's a lesson to be learnt...

don't jerk off in the bathroom whilst soldering… x_X

hehe, sorry to hear about that man. but yeah if i knew how to do that kinda crap i'd help ya, but all i got are friends who will do it for me lol

I love doing that kind of shit.. Computers have been my pastime since I was about 6 (good ol 8086)... Haven't burned up the Radeon 9700 yet... but voltmods, and any other type of overclocking definitely decreases the lifetime of it, but hell, we live in a world where technology changes every day, so if I only get 2 years out of a 4 or 5 year card... its all good..

I also do alot of modding for PS2 and XBOX... XBOX is an awesome tool.. Especially with XBMP and the ability to play streaming movies from the comp in a .bin format!!

0_o

whatever jerkoff said : it sounded expensive !

even if u do overclock and it kills the card faster...

these days newer better cards are out every other month so who cares

I'm just gonna leave my 9800 pro like it is kthx..works fine, just need a new processor =(

Dazlin wrote: even if u do overclock and it kills the card faster...

these days newer better cards are out every other month so who cares

Well unless you get £150+ a month, you would..as would i..and all the other paupers on the forum :p

aye i agree, i dont have a good card to mod
/me cwies