Asus Striker Extreme vDroop Mod

[ineedaname]

The only real way to get that NB cooler is putting a fan on it and even that doesn't help that much.

If you really want to cool it the best way is 2 take that entire heat pipe system off and slap on a thermalright hr-05. That would mean that you'd have 2 get something 4 the mosfets and south bridge though. You could try cutting the heat pipe and reusing the southbridge and mosfet coolers while only changing the NB.

[pygothian]

Cheers, I may give it a go when I build up the courage. Maybe once the board is past its warranty phase. 43C on the NB is ok though would you think?

Currently have 4x 120mm sidefans in a stacker 830 blowing inwards onto the motherboard. 1x 120mm blowing in from the top 3 5.25" bays across the ram and into the zalman 9700 NT, with that exhausting into another 120mm fan out the back of the case, with another 120mm at the top of the case blowing out. The 3-in-1 hdd rack with 4 hdds (3x 400gb in raid0 and 1x raptor 10000k) fan blowing out the front bottom.

I think the airflow is pretty good....tried to watch some smoke from a candle move though the case and it flows through so fast I cant keep track of it...but appears to be no dead spots.

Sorry this is a bit off topic

[|-jokker-|]

Any other place to read the vcore correctly ??
For the time beeing i have all that area insulated for cascade use, so that is a pain in the ass to remove to put a read point .
But if there is no other choice
The bios reads correctle the vcore even with the mod working ??
If so with the vdroop that is good.

[theteamaqua]

yeah i cnat seem to find any

[|-jokker-|]

That is a big pain in tha ,,, because without proper read point i will not do the vcore mod :S

[celemine1Gig]

That is a big pain in tha ,,, because without proper read point i will not do the vcore mod :S

Drill a whole in the mainboard-tray, remove the case backside and read from for example a vcore cap on the boards backside (the caps are THT, so there are contacts on the backside).

[ineedaname]

I did a little test reading the vcore off of the coils. Mind you the multimeter i used wasn't top of the line so i'm not 100% sure of the accuracy but the asus probe reading seemed pretty off.

The vcore in probe was about .05 less than what i got off the coils.

[ineedaname]

Hmm no one has posted here for a while.

Has anyone tested the vcore mod yet?

[ShoNuff]

I did the Vdroop mod a few minutes ago and it works as advertised!

I had to lower my CPU VTT from 1.55v to 1.5 and vCore from 1.5625 to 1.475 in the bios. Temps have dropped by about 4-5c.

Thanks for sharing the pencil mod!

[ea6gka]

it looks like asus boards have very similar voltage circuit or is it just me thinking it? excuse my ignorance i have no idea about electronics , just i noticed my board have a similar design

[Atal]

sorry for my modding nooobness but dont have an idea on how this works :S do u write a line with pencil???? type of pencil = better results??? lol im just confused!

[ianho_]

Thanks for the guide. Excellent stuff. I had to set 1.6Vcore previously. After the mod I'm only using 1.53V now. Awesome tip. Thanks for sharing.

[GameGuru]

Can someone please confirm where to read vcore with a mm on the board please? Is it at any of the two points on the green line in the picture?

Thanks

[ineedaname]

Vcore is read at any of the legs on the coils which surround the socket.

[GameGuru]

Vcore is read at any of the legs on the coils which surround the socket.

Thank you ineedname, in the pic below is this correct?

[ineedaname]

Thank you ineedname, in the pic below is this correct?

Yep that's right.

[Sabre2]

I plan on having a professional help me mod this board but I want to make sure I do this correctly. I am not very happy with my Q6600 G0 overclocking abilities and would like to fix this board permanently. As far as soldering on this board, from what I understand I need two VR Pots, one at 50k to ground and the other at 100k to be soldered at two points on the vdroop?

Just need to clarify a few things... the vdroop mod works 100% but the Vcore mod is still under question?

How exactly do I make my board more Quad Core friendly? I understand that the eVGA A1 board is the only one that is truely free from this plagued performance?

I have a P5N32-E SLI fyi, i don't want to buy another board, I love this one.

[GameGuru]

I plan on having a professional help me mod this board but I want to make sure I do this correctly. I am not very happy with my Q6600 G0 overclocking abilities and would like to fix this board permanently. As far as soldering on this board, from what I understand I need two VR Pots, one at 50k to ground and the other at 100k to be soldered at two points on the vdroop?

Just need to clarify a few things... the vdroop mod works 100% but the Vcore mod is still under question?

How exactly do I make my board more Quad Core friendly? I understand that the eVGA A1 board is the only one that is truely free from this plagued performance?

I have a P5N32-E SLI fyi, i don't want to buy another board, I love this one.

I'm not sure how much performance you are looking for but I'm running prime at 3.6 on my quad. The Striker is a way better board than the Evga, it's really the dang 680i chipset that doesn't like the quads.

Heres a good thread with bios settings. You should at least be able to get 3.6 stable, granted I was running 3.8 on my IP35-Pro but I figure 200mhz for another 8800GTX is worth it to me.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=159457

and more specifically
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=154

Hope this helps!

[GameGuru]

Yep that's right.

Thank You

[vasilebujor67]

Hi,
I tried with a normal pencil, I "draw" as you recommend it and ... what should happen? I mean the problem is when you overclock a processor and you push the voltage at 1.5 it doesn't hang at that value and it is at 1.39 instead?

Respectfully,
Vasile Bujor

PS1. I observed that when you select 1.6 voltage in Striker extreme bios it is in fact at 1.54 ... this is the problem that pencil methid should solve?
PS2. I observed an anomaly in Vista with q6600, at 3Ghz the processor in idle pendulate between 0-5% and at 3.25 it pendulate between 0-1% rarely 2%. And the performance improvement is massive comparing with a e6600 when you overl in same percentage . One thing is sure, it worth having a poerfull cooling system cause this CPU has alot of potential.
For today and near future - 12 month - it is verry powerful for the money .

[ineedaname]

This mod is to fix vdroop. Vdroop is when you're voltage is at lets say 1.45 and it drops to 1.40 at load.

This is supposed to compensate between the differences in voltage at load and idle.

[Akuma2000]

I'm getting a Striker Extreme too and I'm going to overclock my Q6600.

I'm also want to try this mod.

To get it straight:

- I need a B4 Pencil
- Use the multi-meter to test the voltage
- With that pencil, draw about 3 lines on top of the 2 resistors
- Done

1) Is that correct?

2) And the image in the startpost if from a Asus P5K, has the Striker Extreme the same locations of the resistors?

3) Both mods working on the Striker Extreme?

[ineedaname]

some member has said that the vcore mod didn't work for him.

I haven't tried it myself cuz i don't have a striker extreme anymore and no one else has posted about it.

The vdroop mod is tested 100% to be working though.

The image in the start post is not from a P5K. The P5K wasn't even out during the time that pic was posted.

[Akuma2000]

some member has said that the vcore mod didn't work for him.

I haven't tried it myself cuz i don't have a striker extreme anymore and no one else has posted about it.

The vdroop mod is tested 100% to be working though.

The image in the start post is not from a P5K. The P5K wasn't even out during the time that pic was posted.

Ok thnx for the info.
I'll just do the vdroop mod then.

But what motherboard is the one in the image?

[Jigsaw]

Can you solder the wires to the back of the board instead of the top? Seems like it would be easier that way...