I got an upgrade for my personal gear setup, so from now soldering with ERSA iCON-1 soldering station with 120W capable soldering. So pretty much any soldering gear you have on table will fit the task. Since we don’t cover EPOWER connection to card this time, we don’t need to use high-power soldering iron, Low- ESR capacitors (2.5 or 4V rated, 680-820uF, etc) if you like, but not required.DMM (I use my trusty Fluke 87V and Keithley 2002, but any DMM can fit this needs).25-45W soldering iron for trimpot mods.We got two EVGA GEFORCE GTX 980 (04G-P4-2978-KR) cards to play with. Modification of GTX 970 follows same idea, but since layout is different, at this moment you will have We will need basically next to get our successful modding of reference GTX 980 card. Okay, enough talk, let’s blow it up! :) STEP 1

You are on your own here, folks, so “don’t try this at home”. We will also talk a little about removing power limits and overheat thermal protection.īe very well aware, that even little simple mod, basically anything below this paragraph in this article is NOT covered by any kind of warranty, and provided AS IS, without any support from manufacturer or NVIDIA. Those heavy overclockers who are into this already got their EPOWERs, copper clads, soldering tools and Maxwell cards on operation table, but today here we talk about more broad range of pips, who just wanna max out Maxwell with simple trimpot modifications to bump voltages for everyday overclocking on air/water or even mild extreme cooling. No doubt, modifying your GTX 970/980 to for these kind of results is not a five minute job and require some above-minimal soldering skill knowledge. We used EVGA GeForce GTX 980 reference cards together with EVGA EPOWER VRM module to reach out fearsome 2067 MHz clocks stable and clean over 3Dmark benchmarks :). Those who followed up with us on NVIDIA GAME24 event, already know that new beast, NVIDIA Maxwell GM204 GPU is well capable of capturing some serious scores with extreme overclocking and liquid nitrogen cooling help.

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