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Volt mod your 6800go non Ultra L@@K here!

post #1 of 336
Thread Starter 
Seems that the NV41 GPU's seem to take this mod better then the NV42's.

Word of advise, add 0.01v to each flash so 1.11v,1.12v,1.13v ect. Don't go from 1.1v to 1.38v ok? Work your way up.


DL NiBiTor 2.5 here http://www.mvktech.net/index.php?opt...filecatid=1283

Not going to try this so use at your own risk

Open your bios in the App Tools>Read Bios>Select Device, choose your card. Then go to Tools>Read Bios>Read into NiBiTor. Or you can open your ROM file.

Go up to Tools > Voltage Table Editor

For entry 2 you can choose the voltage, i'm assuming that's the 3D voltage for the core.

Set to what you want.

Stock 6800Go ultra NV42 vcore is 1.38 so try something a lot less then that for the first try.

Flash your bios with your new vcore settings, if all is good you should be able to OC more then you were able to.

Good luck.

Don't blame me if your shit screws up. I'm only trying to help.

I tried it with a rom I created and I was able to up the vcore to 1.4v. So yeah.
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To change the voltage

You have to modify Vid 2, or the one that is high lighted in green.

I don't know what vid 3 is but it probably doesn't use it. If you were hitting 1.3 at the core you OC potiential would be much much higher/not to mention your battery time would go down.

In this order

Tools>Voltage Table Editor. Select your new voltage.


Click Voltages and under 3D in exact mode you should see your new value.


Click Vid mode and voltage 2 should have your new voltage.



not that hard.
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To flash your card follow these instructions, hopefully they are correct....

DL THIS, http://rapidshare.de/files/5954877/bcd.rar.html

Put your modded rom in bcd\cds\cdromsi\files folder, create a couple roms so you don't have to waste CDs.

Put a blank CD-R in the drive.

Open a command prompt, and get to the BCD folder. (So put the DLed file in in the root drive like C:\) Then run "bcd cdromsi" once you are in the BCD folder to build your ISO image and burn it to your CD writer. It will burn the disk in dos.

Remember the name of your rom like testvolt.rom

Reboot, press F12
Boot CD drive (Just keep hitting enter)
Once you get to the R:\ Prompt type with no quotes "nvflash R:\bios_name_in_cd.rom"
Press "y" to confirm

Reboot once you see the R:\ again.

Hopefully you can OC some more.

Ok, looks like the mod works

Quote:
Originally Posted by mmzmaster
OK... Extreme Risky

GFX Card Spec:
nVIDIA 256MB GDDR3 GeForce Go 6800 (Non-Ultra)
Chip Revision: NV41M
Core Clock: 438Mhz
Memory Clock: 873Mhz
Voltage 3D Mode: 1.39V

Notebook Ultra Cooler:

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...3706&CatId=215

Summary:
New Record! but Extreme High Risk, I ran this high just for testing ONLY. There's no way I'm going to run this spec for life. Impossible + will kill my notebook. I just had this spec for 10 min... after that all back to normal and I hope I didn't screw up anything. Ultra Cooler Deck really helps to lower to risk but still. As I mention before those clocks that I can't surpass 379Mhz and up because the software limits me. Those clocks are set in the BIOS (BIG thx for shoman24v).

post #2 of 336
So, stock 6800-nu is 1.38V. Do you know what the stock 6800-ultra voltage is?
post #3 of 336
Thread Starter 
My Ultra is 1.38. If they 6800go's are the same then lol don't as me why they can't OC to Ultra status.

Stock 6800Go's have to be less then 1.38...
post #4 of 336
My bad -- I misread you. OK, stock ultra is 1.38V and we don't know what stock nu is.
post #5 of 336
it seems that a 6800GO NU is 1.1volts
post #6 of 336
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Deviant25
it seems that a 6800GO NU is 1.1volts
That's what the ultra runs at on battery

Who's going to be the first to try this

post #7 of 336
Here tell me if i'm readign ti right...

Under exact mode.. its 1.1V for all 3 fields

For vid mode.. its 1.3V for voltage 3(VID 1), 1.1V for voltage 2(VID 2), and 1V for voltage 1(VID 0).. the 1.1V on voltage 2 is highlighted in green
post #8 of 336
Thread Starter 
For my vid mode Voltage 2 is green and at 1.38v

Voltage 1 is 1.1v

I don't have a voltage 3.

once you modify the voltage in the table, Voltage 2 in vid mode changes to the new value.

I don't see why this wouldn't work.
post #9 of 336
I may try it. Odds it'll fry something anyone? Is there anyway for Dell to tell I used software to do this or can I set it back if it fry something (I think I remember reading "blind flash" and such. Anyway, I'll think about it.
post #10 of 336
if the cards use the same amount of power, then why does the xps2 need a bigger power brick?
post #11 of 336
Messing with voltages is where I draw the line. The engineers know more than we do.
post #12 of 336
i wouldnt mess with the voltages either...people have burned out their desktop cards that way. Increasing the voltage increases heat, and with a laptop I would NOT recommend it. Why do you think the ultra version has an extra heat pipe?
post #13 of 336
It might be fine. The XPS2 uses an NV42 core, and so do some 9300's. Same chips.
post #14 of 336
I tried it before and Nibitor didnt seem to da anything and I was able to flash back no problem, it should be pretty safe to try but I dont think it will do anything.
post #15 of 336
Next question... can you undervolt these suckers :-) I want 5 hours of battery life!!!!
post #16 of 336
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fry-man22
I may try it. Odds it'll fry something anyone? Is there anyway for Dell to tell I used software to do this or can I set it back if it fry something (I think I remember reading "blind flash" and such. Anyway, I'll think about it.
If you cook the card there is no way dell will know what happened, odds are they don't even test broken parts. I suicide flashed my old ultra and broke it. They sent me a new one.

If the 6800Go and 6800Go Ultra share the same core "overvolting" it will not hurt it. I wouldn't recommend trying to get the vcore to Ultra status unless you have the XPS PSU.

NiBiTor reads the modified voltages correctly so I don't see why flashing it will hurt anything. Give it a shot, worst that will happen is you break the card. You have a warrenty, use it
post #17 of 336
oh man that would be awsome to undervolt the 2d voltage to like .9v... that would be so nice

so my question is... will it artifact if undervolted too much or will it just bluescreen?
post #18 of 336
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ozzlo
oh man that would be awsome to undervolt the 2d voltage to like .9v... that would be so nice

so my question is... will it artifact if undervolted too much or will it just bluescreen?
Probably won't work, that's why you have to overvolt in small increments. But 1.38 should be safe
post #19 of 336
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ZippoMan
Messing with voltages is where I draw the line. The engineers know more than we do.
But the two cards have the same core, so putting a 6800Go at 1.38 shouldn't hurt it.
post #20 of 336
I'm too scared to do it!!! Someone with an amazing warranty do it!!
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