VTT mod for nf7-s v2

[djsynthesis]

Hey all,

How necessary is a vtt mod if I'm running my vdimm at 3.3v? I've heard that it increases stability, but do you always need it?

Thanks

 

[oc613]

Hey all,

How necessary is a vtt mod if I'm running my vdimm at 3.3v? I've heard that it increases stability, but do you always need it?

Thanks

from what i've read it's very necessary to see great improvement. with 3.3 vdimm you need 1.65. DDR works on both the rising and the falling, so with 1.65 the voltage only has to "travel" 1.65 in either direction to make it to 3.3 as the current alternates. if it was stock, say at 1.45, it would need to go 1.85 in one direction and 1.45 in the other, which as i understand is out of JDEC standards.


anyways, in short, yes, you need to do it.

perhaps someone else can explain the above better than i can

 

[djsynthesis]

ok, so for tictac's vtt mod , what kind of wire would I have to use? sorry, newbie at soldering etc. here..

 

[oc613]

Hey all,

How necessary is a vtt mod if I'm running my vdimm at 3.3v? I've heard that it increases stability, but do you always need it?

Thanks

from what i've read it's very necessary to see great improvement. with 3.3 vdimm you need 1.65. DDR works on both the rising and the falling, so with 1.65 the voltage only has to "travel" 1.65 in either direction to make it to 3.3 as the current alternates. if it was stock, say at 1.45, it would need to go 1.85 in one direction and 1.45 in the other, which as i understand is out of JDEC standards.


anyways, in short, yes, you need to do it.

perhaps someone else can explain the above better than i can

 

[oc613]

well that was weird....

anyways, do not do tictacs way.

use a VR and cut the trace.

too many mobos have been killed by tictacs method.

 

[Tekko]

got a linky to that?

 

[oc613]

got a linky to that?

 

[JoT]

I think I'd rather do something a little less impossible to repair, than cut my traces

 

[pwnt by pat]

Cmon dude, repairing traces is EASY.

that one especially, it's at least 1/16" wide, you would need to be blind not to be able to do it (comes from repairing set of 1/64" traces)

It's easy!
1. clear off whole surface
2. get single strand of copper wire
3. tin the wire
4. tin the joint to be soldered
5. hold the wire down and tack it in one spot
6. tack opposite side
7. solder in place
8. crack a 'dew, and enjoy your freshly repaired trace!

 

[ZachM]

Could you link to some accounts of tictac's method killing boards? Is it just from a bad solder job, or does the mod change something that it shouldn't? I was planning on getting an OCZ DDR booster when they come out. I wanted to use Tictac's vtt mod because it looks like a fairly simple solder job.

 

[JoT]

Cmon dude, repairing traces is EASY.

that one especially, it's at least 1/16" wide, you would need to be blind not to be able to do it (comes from repairing set of 1/64" traces)

It's easy!
1. clear off whole surface
2. get single strand of copper wire
3. tin the wire
4. tin the joint to be soldered
5. hold the wire down and tack it in one spot
6. tack opposite side
7. solder in place
8. crack a 'dew, and enjoy your freshly repaired trace!

I'm not blind, but my hands are incredibly unsteady, so it would be a bad idea to try and cut a trace (for me). Soldering isn't so bad, if you screw up a little bit, you can generally fix that mistake, but if you slip cutting traces, you could destroy your whole board.