ASUS P5B delx Vdrop pencil mod

netby · 26 Mar 2007 at 22:48

I mates

I have done a "pencil mod" in my board,because Vdimm drops a beat when the sistem is in full load
and it works great

also i have changed the ram from yellow slots to the black slot´s

now i feel the overclocking is much easier to do, at 3600mhz ( 450 x 8) I need only 1.475V,and to my surprise the Vdimm do not drop but on the contrary it raises at 1.47 when on full load!!!
( idle is at 1.6V - load 1.47)

hardc0re_tid · 27 Mar 2007 at 12:47

ignore me

ubern00b · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:22

is there any mod like this for the Commando? I have seem one over on XS but it requires soldering

FreeStream · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:40

This has been posted before and I did it and my VDroop is now 0.0050--> 0.0090V

netby · 27 Mar 2007 at 15:06

I do not now if the Commando have the same lay-out as the P5B de lx

in the P5b is very simple to do
I just draw a line between the two points ,with a B nº1 pencil
( I passe the pencil until i see a black line between the points- it´s a 2/3 mm line)

in this trhead ,you could see it explaned

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=116574&page=2

smsmasters · 27 Mar 2007 at 16:12

I did this on my p5b dlx. I'm stable at 400x9 now

1.43V

ubern00b · 28 Mar 2007 at 14:12

I can confirm for anyone interested its the same mod for the Commando, confirmed over at XS. Gonna try this tonight along with the new bios

PinkFloyd · 28 Mar 2007 at 14:38

Might try this, see if I can get my e6600 stable at higher than what it is now

Seen it posted a couple of times, but keep chickening out....

ubern00b · 28 Mar 2007 at 14:58

Yea my 6400 is stable at 3.2ghz with just 1.4v but has to idle at 1.45v due to 0.05v droop under load. Would be nice to get it down to 1.4v idle and 1.4v load! Will do the temps good anyway.

Typhoon · 28 Mar 2007 at 18:10

Just done, the pencil mod on my Commando. Resisance was about 80KOhms before and I did a number of strokes till it got it down to about 45 (40-50KOhms) seems to be what people reccomend. Haven't had a chance to play with the voltages yet. If you lower the resistance too much you might get more voltage than you want. If you use a variable potentiometer and solder it, you can vary the resistance to suit with a screwdriver.

netby · 28 Mar 2007 at 18:24

quote Typhoon

"If you lower the resistance too much you might get more voltage than you want. "

ahh ok that´s why my Vcore goes up when in full load

I draw a black line across the capacitor

anyway board is rock solid now!!