Pencil Mod to get rid of vdroop?

[jawknee530]

I have a gigabyte ga=965p-ds3 and have a vdroop of about .044. has anyone done a pencil mod to this board? i found a guide online but am leery of trying it without some input from someone who has tried it. getting rid of my vdroop would be great.

 

[graysky]

Worked like a charm on my P5B-Del.. it worked so well that I wrote up an guide for this board here. Give it a try.

 

[jawknee530]

i saw your guide but i wanted to know if anyone did it to my mobo before i risked messing it up

 

[Volkswagen]

did on my p5k vanilla and vdroop is almost gone 1.4v in bios 1.38V load dual orthos

 

[TuxDave]

Makes me wonder if the pencil mod just hides the real vdroop....

 

[jawknee530]

Originally posted by: TuxDave
Makes me wonder if the pencil mod just hides the real vdroop....

ive never thought about that. hmm...

 

[idiotekniQues]

Originally posted by: jawknee530

Originally posted by: TuxDave
Makes me wonder if the pencil mod just hides the real vdroop....

ive never thought about that. hmm...

that would be pretty easy to find out and would be known already.

i think that wondering is not worth wondering about.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: idiotekniQues

Originally posted by: jawknee530

Originally posted by: TuxDave
Makes me wonder if the pencil mod just hides the real vdroop....

ive never thought about that. hmm...

that would be pretty easy to find out and would be known already.

i think that wondering is not worth wondering about.

Not worth wondering about? It's worth wondering about it if it doesn't do anything! I am curious if people have been able to get higher overclocks with this pencil mod vs without.

 

[xenolith]

Vdroop is actually a design feature in Intel's power delivery spec.

vdroop explained

 

[eelw]

It's reversible. Just erase the pencil lead to remove the mod. And I yeah, I also did a pencil mod on my EVGA 650i with my Q6600.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: eelw
It's reversible. Just erase the pencil lead to remove the mod. And I yeah, I also did a pencil mod on my EVGA 650i with my Q6600.

So were you able to achieve a higher overclock as a result?

 

[dmens]

Originally posted by: graysky
Worked like a charm on my P5B-Del.. it worked so well that I wrote up an guide for this board here. Give it a try.

Should read CTho's post on that thread, this sounds like a pretty bad idea. It takes a board on the order of microseconds to stabilize the supply voltage going from idle to load, aggravating the transient droop is extremely likely to compromise stability, especially on overclocked systems.

 

[xenolith]

Originally posted by: dmens

Originally posted by: graysky
Worked like a charm on my P5B-Del.. it worked so well that I wrote up an guide for this board here. Give it a try.

Should read CTho's post on that thread, this sounds like a pretty bad idea. It takes a board on the order of microseconds to stabilize the supply voltage going from idle to load, aggravating the transient droop is extremely likely to compromise stability, especially on overclocked systems.

I agree. See my post in this thread above for an another excellent explanation of vdroop and why it's an inherent part of Intel's power delivery design, why it's needed, and why it may be a bad idea to "hack up your expensive, well-engineered motherboard in a horrific effort to 'correct' the problem."