Guides

16 June 2008 - 240 Shader Pixels ain't no shadin' till you've bumped them all the way up. Overclocking allows you to do just that. In case you need a little boost with this new toy, here's some help.

18 February 2008 - "When does 670 + 670 = 680?" When ATi slaps two RV670 together that is! Twice the graphical ability on a single slot. Sounds cool? Not till you overclock it, like a true-blue VR-Zone reader. Now includes a new memory voltage modification, as well as el-cheapo tricks to maximise performance.

10 March 2007 - About two weeks ago, EVGA announced that their NVIDIA 680i SLI Motherboards have gone into the Revision A1 state, an updated revision with improved overclocking for the Quad Core Kentsfield Users. I was lucky enough to receive a A1 revision and checked out what is it that is actually changed..

7 December 2006 - We've all seen the G80 cores dressed over with their decent Heat-Spreaders. Now see them naked and sexy!

14 October 2006 - Alright so you want to voltage modify your X1900GT Rev2, with that new cooler, changed PCB? No software voltage adjustments? No worries, here's some simple mods for you, all the way up to 1.85v!

10 September 2006 - Ok, so we heard the Intel C19 Board from DFI has been cancelled while we have just finished our preview of it, based on a beta BIOS. I liked the board in comparison to the rest of the C19 boards, but the raw BIOS is headache for me. While it was too hard to resist pestering DFI for a new BIOS (with a detrimental bigger than 11x Multiplier selection), those waiting for DFI's RD600 would be pissed with me as I would be straying the LAN Party Team from concentrating on the board that's just around the corner. I suppose then I will have to transplant a BIOS from an unwilling donor...

27 August 2006 - After our "pin-mod" Core 2 Duo guide to boost voltages on these LGA CPUs for limiting motherboards, we had some requests for guides on the previous generation of LGA CPUs. So here is our "pin-mod" guide for all Pentium-based LGA CPUs, from the Pentium 4s to the Pentium/Celeron Ds and Pentium Extreme Editions. As usual, all you need is some electrical insulation tape and some conductive ink.

18 August 2006 - The Core 2 Duos bring the joy back for the Intel Overclockers with their easy to handle heat and ample of overclock head-room. However, the overclocking capacity depends as much on the motherboards paired with them. Some of the enthusiasts on a tight budget are stuck with a limiting motherboard, particularly in the voltage department. However, with just conductive ink and some tape, you can boost your CPU Voltage all the way up to 1.6v easily!

18 March 2008 - The NVIDIA 9800GX2 has just hit the shelves and at VR-Zone, we work out the Voltage Modifications before anything else. Here's a little preliminary modifications for those who are flying the soldering iron, and SLIcing up some double patties.

11 January 2008 - The NVIDIA G92 has been causing a stir in the overclocking community. Notable is the well executed process change. We look at how the average enthusiast gets to squeeze their dollar with some elbow grease.

12 February 2007 - 8800GTS 320MB, one of the cheapest Direct X 10 capable cards around, fresh from oven. You want more overclocking headroom? A bit more voltage may help would you think? Ok then let's go.

11 November 2006 - What do you do when you have a pair of EVGA 8800GTX ACS3 Edition? Do some High Def Gaming with all eye candy smooth as silk? Or would you prefer to play with some overclocking and churn out some mad frame rates?? All you want here... Cooling, Voltage Mods, the works!

28 September 2006 - The ASUS P5W64 WS Pro is not just a hot choice for a workstation PC, like what it is marketed as with a "Wall Street" Boot-up picture, but also a top toy board among the overclocking enthusiasts. Out of the box, it comes with a good offering in terms of nitty-gritty voltage control. However, should one crave for more, look no further than your sharpened pencil tip...

2 September 2006 - Alright, so we have put the X1950XTX under the cold Cascade cooling. Hot? Yes, hotter than X1900XTX. Issues? Yes Software Bugs... Core hit high speed? Yes, 927MHz Core benchmark stable!

22 August 2006 - ASUS P5N32 SLI SE Deluxe is basically identical to its predecessor, the P5N32 SLI Deluxe, which are both based on the NVIDIA nForce4 SLI x 16 chipset. It just switched out a CPU voltage regulator for one supporting VRD 11 to run the latest Intel Core 2 Duo Processors. And also did away with the power molex connector in the awkard position right below the first PCIE slot. An old dog, learning just one more new trick. Now those of you overclocking on this board may be interested in the voltage mods for it, most of which can be accomplished with a simple pencil as well.

8 August 2006 - In our endless attempts to squeeze out the last MHz from our processors, some of us have resorted to removing the integrated heat spreaders on our processors in a bid to improve thermal efficiency, to garner that 2-3 degrees, and trade it for that final 10MHz. The LGA socket processors use a solder thermal interface between the core and the heatspreader so removing it involves more than just cutting past the rubber linings. Well, I just went out on a daredevil...