CHEAPAZ CHIPS SEASON 1

[newlife]

My Cheapazz Chips Comp journey through pictures

 

Cheapazz Chips Comp - GtiJason - Album on Imgur

 

 

Nice mate :celebration:

[Hilderman]

My Cheapazz Chips Comp journey through pictures

 

Cheapazz Chips Comp - GtiJason - Album on Imgur

 

awesome gallery thanks for sharing that

[kezu]

Tips for Asus 710gt 1gb vgpu voltage read point? Found one, back side of the card aprox where is two caps on gpu side. Gives reading 0.956 already bumbed up to 1v. Also one other boint gives steady 1.156 under load and under 1.08x when idle. But trimming pot wont change anything.

 

Thank you!

 

Might be my vgpu mod wont work, or soldered incorrectly.

 

Edit, seems like it's working. I thought that vgpu stovk is 1.12 as vid says.

Edited August 19, 2016 by kezu

[Strong Island]

Tips for Asus 710gt 1gb vgpu voltage read point? Found one, back side of the card aprox where is two caps on gpu side. Gives reading 0.956 already bumbed up to 1v. Also one other boint gives steady 1.156 under load and under 1.08x when idle. But trimming pot wont change anything.

 

Thank you!

 

Might be my vgpu mod wont work, or soldered incorrectly.

 

show some pictures of your mod, maybe we spot something.

 

Cant wait to bench my card this weekend, looking really nice on air.

[kezu]

show some pictures of your mod, maybe we spot something.

 

Cant wait to bench my card this weekend, looking really nice on air.

 

Its done same way that in newlife's guide. thanks to him

[NoMS]

Tips for Asus 710gt 1gb vgpu voltage read point? Found one, back side of the card aprox where is two caps on gpu side. Gives reading 0.956 already bumbed up to 1v. Also one other boint gives steady 1.156 under load and under 1.08x when idle. But trimming pot wont change anything.

 

Thank you!

 

Might be my vgpu mod wont work, or soldered incorrectly.

 

[kezu]

Funny, i tought that i did mod wrong, but seems that my pot isn't fines quality. Takes quite lot of turns until started happening, i even double checked the resistance. But im up on unning now. 1.15vgpu and 1440 mhz on gpu. Furmark stable. Running on air.

[kezu]

 

 

Thank you so much! I get same reading, from otherside of the card. Thanks alot!

 

such an nice community! Happy benching guys!

[kezu]

So far Asus 1gb model

 

1591 /1191

 

Takes 1.4v for gpu. Im still on stock heatsink. Cooled by 120mm fan. temps under load are 48c

 

 

Off to sleep now. Tomorrow, memory and maxing out gpu with 120fan. After that gonna test air conditioner ghetto mod. No tweaks.

 

[newlife]

 

I've just quickly edited this pic to show the mem mod which should read 3k ohm and I'd say 50k VR to ground

 

Mem mod is yellow and read point is red

 

[NoMS]

Nice find @newlife !

Edited August 20, 2016 by NoMS

[kezu]

I think i might have accidentally killed my Card. Soldered vgpu & vmem read points. Everything was fine. No shorts, covered with hotglue. I dont have any clue what might have killed it. Cleaned with alcohol whole card, mods removed. Compressed air etc.

 

Boot and card is bricked. vgpu sits 0.9v and vmem 0.6v. Have to check tomorrow again is there any scratches or tin drops or anything. I might get new card in time. Maybe.

 

 

Anyway, i was dumb enough and did not save any screenshots. Just had so many hours tweaking with 3dmark01 and best was 60400 points. Ahh well, lesson learned.

[newlife]

I think i might have accidentally killed my Card. Soldered vgpu & vmem read points. Everything was fine. No shorts, covered with hotglue. I dont have any clue what might have killed it. Cleaned with alcohol whole card, mods removed. Compressed air etc.

 

Boot and card is bricked. vgpu sits 0.9v and vmem 0.6v. Have to check tomorrow again is there any scratches or tin drops or anything. I might get new card in time. Maybe.

 

 

Anyway, i was dumb enough and did not save any screenshots. Just had so many hours tweaking with 3dmark01 and best was 60400 points. Ahh well, lesson learned.

 

Damn that looked to be a half decent card and by the sounds of things the memory pwm somehow got damaged as it's running a fail-safe voltage

[kezu]

Damn that looked to be a half decent card and by the sounds of things the memory pwm somehow got damaged as it's running a fail-safe voltage

 

Thanks, rechecked the mod area. No tin drops nothing. Took pots. On vmem pot hair or two copper wires was poking out from hotglue and ground wire just next to them. Checked on multimeter, resistance almost zero.

 

 

 

Might be recoverable?

[kezu]

Did some checks on mem pwm. If i remember right the resistance between ground and vmem mod spot was below 3k ohm.

now it's 8.2k ohm aprox. So, gotta find where the broken resistor is maybe?

Edited August 21, 2016 by kezu

[kezu]

 

this is what i got measuring those resistances. and resistance from vmem spot to ground is 8.25k

Edited August 21, 2016 by kezu

[newlife]

The top of that 8.5k one should read pretty much 0ohm between ground as it is a ground and the bottom should read about 2.95k ohm

[kezu]

The top of that 8.5k one should read pretty much 0ohm between ground as it is a ground and the bottom should read about 2.95k ohm

 

Thanks! I will look at it again if i find something. Edit, might had bad solder. Resoldered that bottom end. Now getting correct resistance. Will give it a try now.

 

*fingers crossed*

Edited August 21, 2016 by kezu

[kezu]

yay! that bad solder actually saved my card.

 

It's up and running, thank you so much newlife!

[newlife]

yay! that bad solder actually saved my card.

 

It's up and running, thank you so much newlife!

 

That's awesome and good to hear :banana:

[GeorgeStorm]

So a friend and I just tried the vcore mod on our first Giga card, and it looked like it was all good, however when we plugged the card in and tried changing the voltage nothing seemed to happen.

 

We were using GPU-Z for the voltage measurement for ease as it was 0.01 out compared to the multimeter.

 

Eventually whilst turning the pot the screen went crazy pink for a second then black, a PC restart and everything seemed fine again.

 

Any ideas?

[newlife]

Gpu doesn't read the real volts, just what it thinks

[GeorgeStorm]

Gpu doesn't read the real volts, just what it thinks

 

Oops

 

Thanks!

 

From a quick manual check it's currently running at 1.28v so clearly the mod is working!

 

Edit:

Anyone have any luck with the stock cooler on the gigabyte board, swiftly realising it's fairly terrible

 

Going to try and bodge my phase onto it next week since temperatures are definitely holding it back at the moment (only at 1.2v!)

Edited August 23, 2016 by GeorgeStorm

[kezu]

For some reason, i cannot get gpupi running correctly on my setup. Fresh win 10 installation and 32b gpupi takes like 1 hour per loop.

 

week ago i had fresh win 8 install and it worked just fine. May have to hook up my card to different mobo & cpu setup. and instal win7 & win8.

[GeorgeStorm]

For some reason, i cannot get gpupi running correctly on my setup. Fresh win 10 installation and 32b gpupi takes like 1 hour per loop.

 

week ago i had fresh win 8 install and it worked just fine. May have to hook up my card to different mobo & cpu setup. and instal win7 & win8.

 

We only have to run 1B for this