[Edit:]in the rare chnce that someone else here has the same card as me, and has vmodded, I have a question google seems unable to answer
There are several pcb revisions of the 9700 and some use different chips for Vref and Vddq. Mine uses one of these smaller uncommon IS3037A chips, pic:
And I cant find out the pins or resistor values for vmodding them [/edit]
This last week Ive had nothing to do... and I want to play doom 3
So in my bordom, I thought Id o/c my gfx card, some more. Yes, it goes further
Heres one thing from today, was going to be a memsink, but I cba to make four more of them (to cover 8 mem chips) so I finanly decided it be replacement for the heatspreader that I took off soo long ago... (a mistake as that chip got very hot without proper cooling...)
Yes thats 50 holes, 4mm diameter, 5 horizontal cuts and 10 vertical cuts... done with only a hand drill, hacksaw and a file, thats how much effort is going into this card!
Then I cut up a old cpu heatsink to make 8 memsink sized ones. which are now stuck on well with 1:1:1 of AS3 (for removing if needed) and AS epoxy A/B.
Next the Vmem mod, under the hot-glue this is more like art. The cleanest solderingI have ever done.
Well compared to the Vgpu mod, which I done last year...
Also done the 3pin connector for measure points.. yay for that.. so much easyer!
Current limit for mem is 315mhz but I WILL get it to 350. Yes I know infineon 3.3 is not known to gp past 330mhz even with vmods
And if I mess up, I have another 3 cards arriving this week - 9500np's with 128mb in L shape, from retek for £35 each I just hope they like softmodding and no crappy infineon...
Assuming the card still works after Id like some guesses at how much its worth? I have air heatsink/fan and atleast able to do 400mhz with that cooling, with silence (but with a waterblock 500mhz possible, atleast ).
After so much effort Im still considering a x800 xtpe (and I have loads of money and nothing else to buy...)