eVGA 9600GSO Dual-Slot Pics for Volt Mod

quadomatic

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I'm looking to volt mod my eVGA 9600GSO Dual-Slot Edition card. It's the one that went on sale for $34 ($31 if you did Live Search Cashback) back in September. The card doesn't follow the reference model, so I took the cooler off and took some pictures of the bare card.

I tried to take as good pics as I could. The images are fairly high resolution (3072x2304), and in total all the pictures weigh in at almost 20MB, so I zipped them up and uploaded them to filedropper.

It seems like I can overclock this card quite a bit. Without the volt mod, it runs at 752 mhz core/1806 mhz shader/1050 mhz memory. No problems as of yet. When I took the cooler off I found that the memory chips are Samsung, not the qimonda chips that were mentioned as being questionable earlier (though I don't know anything about the Samsung chips).

For $31, it definitely seems like I'm getting my money's worth. Fallout 3 runs beautifully, as does most every other game I've tried (Crysis is a bit questionable, but that's to be expected).

So, if someone could have a look at these pictures and tell me what I can do for a volt mod, I'd appreciate it:

http://www.filedropper.com/9600gso

Thanks a bunch!
 

child of wonder

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I picked up that card when it was $36 AR. Simply cannot go wrong for that price. Haven't tried to overclock it yet. I'm interested to see what kind of volt mods are available for it, too.
 

Bill Kunert

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Have you considered modding the bios to get an additional 0.1 volt? I modded the bios on my EVGA 8800GS primarily to change the fan profile but also for the extra voltage.
 

quadomatic

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Originally posted by: Bill Kunert
Have you considered modding the bios to get an additional 0.1 volt? I modded the bios on my EVGA 8800GS primarily to change the fan profile but also for the extra voltage.

Well since I already unplugged the card and took of the cooler I think I'll just go the extra mile and hard-mod it. I was going to do a bios mod, but I decided it'd be worth it to get all the juice out.