Volt Modding on NF7-S v. 2.0

[Marl65]

I am in need of some help. I built my rig about 3 years ago and it was nice then and I got a decient over clock out of it. But these days it's starting to lag behind. I took it as far as I could and keep it stable without doing any volt mods or anything like that to it. Well......I think it's time to do some now. I know that this thing has a lot more left in it. I just can't get the FSB past 150 and keep it stable. I looked threw some of the volt modding read me's but didn't really find any infomation that I thought would be of use to me on this old thing. I was looking threw some of the CPUMark scores and I found that jiggamanjb's old rig is very very close to mine. Anyways, let me know if you think you can help. You all were very useful when I built this thing. I really learned a lot then. But three years of sleep and beer will cause you to forget somethings......

[scott d]

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=315560

you could also try wire mods
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=214364

[Skeith]

Yeah I have a similar problem. My Vcore fluctuates alot. Ive got my FSB to 192Mhz clocking my Sempron at 2016Mhz. (10.5x multiplier). I have to pump 1.808v through the poor chip to keep it stable. Ive been thinking about replacing the caps to try and smooth it out. I have some 6.3v 4700uF electrolytes pulled from a P2 board. Im thinking about replacing the (i belive they are 2200uF) caps on my NF7-Sv2. Think that'l work or is putting heatsinks on the mosfets a better bet. (I cant seem to get any to fit)

[Moto7451]

Do both! You should get 12v Caps however so that you don't blow anything up ;). I cut up an old AXP heatsink (specifically the step area) into squares about as large as the FET and thermal epoxied them on my NF7.

[Skeith]

well I took alook at the caps. The ones before the FETs are 16v 1200uF and the ones after the FETs are 6.3v 3300uF. Im going to try getting heatsinks on the FETs again. The problem is them damn 1200uF caps, on any other board Ive seen a heatsink could have been slapped across all the FETs without the caps interfering, oh well.