The Complete GeCube / GigaCube Radeon 9600 Pro/XT Voltage Modding Guide Posted! When you hit a snag overclocking your GeCube or GigaCube Radeon 9600 Pro/XT’s GPU and memory chips, what do you do? Better cooling will help but have you also considered volt modding the Radeon 9600 Pro/XT? Join Max_87 today as he goes through the different voltage modding methods for the graphics cards based on the GeCube / GigaCube Radeon 9600 Pro/XT design! Link : The Complete GeCube / GigaCube Radeon 9600 Pro/XT Voltage Modding Guide!
Thx to Max_87 for another excellent guide. Very detailed and informative. Max_87, will your next guide cover the new Radeon X800 Pro/XT series ?
Hi Max_87, is the stock cooler that comes with the Gecube 9600xt extreme good enough if I permorm this volt mod?
Hi Max_87 i have a few questions regarding pencil mod method. I have a Gigacube 9600Pro with VGA Silencer + Vantec copper ramsinks and it does stock volts 486mhz core and 364mhz mem. I measured using multimeter and GPU = 1.218v seems low but measured it from all 3 illustrated GPU voltage check points in your article's pics MEM = 2.782v Now I'm a bit confused as to exactly where the pencil line travels in these pics. Am i meant to pencil all the way from the end of the silver line tip at one end and onto the black chip surface and then all the way to the other end of the silver line's end of tip. I am meant to pencil on top of the black chip's surface right ? I'm familiar with the X800Pro's GPU pencil mod and you can measure the resistance prior to perfoming the pencil mod, so how would i measure the resistance on Gigacube 9600Pro prior to performing the mod ? thanks
er...actually you don't need to pencil all the way to the end of the pin you just need to make sure you connect the both pins with the graphite
thanks for clarifying that... i just benched my card again at stock volts and max core is 468mhz now with 1.218v, so somehow i lost 18mhz off the core from before maybe my GPU voltage wasn't always 1.218v ?
It won't always be 1.218v It shouldn't affect the overclock anyway except it flunctuates a lot that is
Hi, I want to measure the voltage of my card, not for OCing but coz, like hundreds of others of 9600 owners, I'm having problems with it freezing in games As far as I know my card is a GeCube Radeon 9600 Pro EZ 256Mb. I'm not sure if the PCB is based on the reference, but I doubt it as I have only recently bought it - aren't reference cards usually the first out? The link on this guide for people WITH reference cards actually points to the 9800 Pro guide so I can't see an example of the GeCube ATI reference board to compare. Anyway, mine doesn't look much like the board shown in the guide. I was wondering if anyone could spot the voltage probe points on my card for me. The voltage regulator chip on my card (circled in yellow) is on the top of the card rather than the bottom as shown in the guide. Some of the information printed on the card includes: PN 109-A198-00 R9600/PRO/XT REV 1.3A GC-R9600(PRO)-D3H Thanks.
This PCB is totally different from what you can see in this guide Anyway, you computer's freezing problem is not cause by that . Try Prime95 and memtest on your system
Yeah I realise that. Funny though because it is a GeCube R9600Pro. They must have decided to use a differnent PCB for the EZ version (as well as making the memory slower). I didn't realise it was an EZ when I bought it I ran memtest overnight - zero errors. There is no shortage of problems with the R9600 - check out http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/8596/?o=1040 - over 2000 posts on my problem (though the site seems to be down right now...) Anyway, that's another topic. Thanks anyway; the voltage was just one idea I was gonna explore. I've got a whole list that's gonna keep me busy for the next fortnight.
I make the pencil vmod on my Gecube 9600Xt extreme. The gpu goes 100Mhz higher , but the memory 60Mhz lower. Why it is?
That happens on certain cards as well What kind of cooler are you using on your 9600XT? Why don't you try to increase the memory voltage? See if it solves the problem. Remember, as you increase the GPU voltage, not only the GPU is heating up, the other components such as those capacitors, etc. are heating up also That may affect the overclock on the memory too In some cases, raising the vref/vddq voltage may solve the problem. However vref/vddq kills the card real fast. So, i usually don't recommend doing that mod on your graphics card
ROTFL! Please, FOLLOW the guide! Otherwise, you may kill your card! We specifically asked you to check the voltage after each time you draw the lines. If you do not, you may overvolt and kill your GPU or memory chips.
