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post #41 of 336
10/7/05 at 1:30am
Yeah, the Ultra uses DDR3 chips and the Go uses DDR1 chips. Though I think the newer Go's are using DDR3, are they not?
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post #42 of 336
10/7/05 at 2:07am
Overvolting anything (GPUs, CPUs and RAM) can increase your overclocking potential, so depending on how hard you wanna push your equipment, eventually you'll hit a point where adding a little more juice will get you there, or have it be more stable at higher speeds.

The trade-offs are, there's more heat disappated, so you'd want to make sure you AS5'd up your GPU before doing it... you might shorten the life of the equipment (not always true, depends on how hard you're pushing it), and in the case of notebooks, decreased battery life (but if you're over-volting you're probably not worrying about it anyway.

If you're going to overvolt, it's always good to do it in increments to 'burn it in'... 0.1v at a time for a few days to let the hardware adjust... this may mean more reliability later (again, only if you're pushin your hardware really hard).

Undervolting can decrease temps if you're really worried about it, but can cause the system to be unreliable at times. It's usually best to do the opposite of burning in... -0.1v at a time, and then testing with some benchmark programs to make sure your system is still stable.

Personally I don't see the point of undervolting... either I'm doin 2d stuff and my 9300 is cool and quiet anyway, or I'm doin 3d stuff and it's gonna warm up either way.
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post #43 of 336
10/7/05 at 2:46am
ok that is pretty ez but I have just one more question...

I keep reading posts that a voltage is highlighted in green... I have no such voltage highlighted in green... the only things I have seen in green are the table header entries the checkmark in the ok box and the green dot next to Integrity... so what is is going on with the voltage highlighted?

I'm sorry but I just got out of forign language class and my brain is fried... whenever I do a mod I aim to completelly understand it in and out before attempting so I don't end up being the loser that fried his card because he diden't know what he was doing...
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post #44 of 336
10/7/05 at 3:48am
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Originally Posted by Toy-Yoda
So undervolting you cpu isnt ok, but increasing your voltage to your gpu is?! Just for a few more fps, less battery life and the possibility of ruining your card? I'm just playing devils advocate here...
6800go and 6800go Ultra share the same GPU so I don't see a problem with adding voltage to the 6800go.

I don't think i'll ever undervolt anything in MY computer, but what other people do is their own business.

I don't see how undervolting will make the keyboard cooler when it's the GPU and the 6800 series that make it hot.
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post #45 of 336
10/7/05 at 3:52am
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Originally Posted by ozzlo
ok that is pretty ez but I have just one more question...

I keep reading posts that a voltage is highlighted in green... I have no such voltage highlighted in green... the only things I have seen in green are the table header entries the checkmark in the ok box and the green dot next to Integrity... so what is is going on with the voltage highlighted?

I'm sorry but I just got out of forign language class and my brain is fried... whenever I do a mod I aim to completelly understand it in and out before attempting so I don't end up being the loser that fried his card because he diden't know what he was doing...
Click the voltages tab, then the vid mode tab
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post #46 of 336
10/7/05 at 4:02am
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Originally Posted by Spritzup
Yeah, the Ultra uses DDR3 chips and the Go uses DDR1 chips. Though I think the newer Go's are using DDR3, are they not?
The 6800go doesn't use GDDR3.

If you can get your core up to 450 like the ultra that would be nice, but I don't know how well the stock 6800go heatsink will hold up.
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post #47 of 336
10/7/05 at 4:04am
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Originally Posted by PJK
Next question... can you undervolt these suckers :-) I want 5 hours of battery life!!!!
Probably but I wouldn't recommend it.
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post #48 of 336
10/7/05 at 4:07am
I remember reading a post about someone doing this with NiBitor for the 6800 go and reading about how it did absolutely nothing.
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post #49 of 336
10/7/05 at 4:11am
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Originally Posted by prona
I remember reading a post about someone doing this with NiBitor for the 6800 go and reading about how it did absolutely nothing.
Dunno how they did it in NiBiTor, the older versions don't support volt modding like the way the 2.5 version does.............................

and someone also broke their card trying to do this. But they were doing it some other way.
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post #50 of 336
10/7/05 at 4:14am
I have been trying for a few hours today and just like last time a new version of Nibitor came out it does absolutely nothing for my laptop.
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post #51 of 336
10/7/05 at 4:15am
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Originally Posted by IRobertus
I have been trying for a few hours today and just like last time a new version of Nibitor came out it does absolutely nothing for my laptop.


I'm confused. It works fine.
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post #52 of 336
10/7/05 at 4:16am
Well I have 3 different voltages in there and none of them are green so I dont know what else to change but, if anyone has any ideas I will be glad to test them for you.
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post #53 of 336
10/7/05 at 4:21am
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Originally Posted by IRobertus
Well I have 3 different voltages in there and none of them are green so I dont know what else to change but, if anyone has any ideas I will be glad to test them for you.
TO FIND THE GREEN!!!!!
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Originally Posted by shoman24v
Click the voltages tab, then the vid mode tab
UGH omg. I really don't understand how the third voltage is throwing you off. It has nothing to do with anything. Mine is set to 2 by default.

Send my your bios. Let me see...........

Do this...........ugh...

The 6800go doesn't even run at 1.3v anyways.
Set this to 2 and your confusing third voltage goes away.
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post #54 of 336
10/7/05 at 4:35am
that green is bloody hard to see, it looks black at first glance. Look CloseUP to see
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post #55 of 336
10/7/05 at 4:39am
I'll give it a try this weekend, I've already had dell replace the last card in a volt-mod gone wrong. Unfortunately the sent me back an NV42, which doesn't clock as high, so no loss if I cook it.
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post #56 of 336
10/7/05 at 4:40am
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Originally Posted by REAVER
I'll give it a try this weekend, I've already had dell replace the last card in a volt-mod gone wrong. Unfortunately the sent me back an NV42, which doesn't clock as high, so no loss if I cook it.
Pretty sure you didn't try it this way right?

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post #57 of 336
10/7/05 at 4:56am
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Originally Posted by shoman24v
Pretty sure you didn't try it this way right?
No, it was version 1.1.
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post #58 of 336
10/7/05 at 4:58am
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Originally Posted by REAVER
No, it was version 1.1.
Cool, just keep in mind you are limited with that heatsink... so don't overdo it
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post #59 of 336
10/7/05 at 5:08am
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Originally Posted by shoman24v
Probably but I wouldn't recommend it.
Ok let me get this, overvolting is fine, but undervolting is not? What is this... seriously.
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post #60 of 336
10/7/05 at 5:15am
shoman24v...

The main goal of this overvolt is to allowed the card to go higher clocks?
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