Funky Kit Article: Voltmodding an old GPU to increase performance

As overclockers we are often limited by the tools provided to us by the mfg.  While many of these limitations have gone away in recent years we are still often plagued by not having enough voltage to make our overclocks "stick".

Volt modding is a way around that but requires skill with a soldering iron and the steady hand of a surgeon.

In the video card end of things, the benchmarks involve rendering specific scenes either as fast as possible, or with the largest number of frames per second possible.  The higher you can overclock, the more frames you can render and the higher your score will be.  Overclocking to the extreme limit requires very good cooling, and rather more voltage then the manufacturers want you putting through the cards, that means it's time to bust out the soldering iron and have some fun! 

Personally I stil have yet to take on the voltmodding challenge myself but that doesn't mean you shouldn't. 

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