Commando volt mod.
 

The Vcore boost and Vdrop modification works perfectly. I'm happy since this is my first time with a solder iron. I managed to do the mod, and everything is working fine.

The Vcore mod scales very nice when you bump voltage in BIOS. When I sat 1.6v in bios I got 1.68v Vcore, so I can finaly get 2v out of my Commando. Without the seriouse unstable Vdrop..it pops around like popcorn without this mod.



My work.. First time I've soldered a motherboard or any other electrical circuits.
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/9053/img4031v.th.jpg

http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/1056/img4029.th.jpg

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/5585/img4033h.th.jpg

http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/3443/img4027a.th.jpghttp://ceemic.pri.ee/hardware/commando/commando_m

Hit up punx around here. He should be able to help you in that area. Wish I could get my hands on a Commando.

I see, i will send him a P.M, thought I don't like to nag people.

As you probably see, the two first pictures are the same Vmod done by same guy, the 2nd one is a bit different, and looks easier to understand. But I guess, there are a lot of different Vmods out there for the Commando.

EBay, got a few. There was a brand new one one there a few days ago, Retail.:)

I got this board in Norway brand new from store, but it was pretty expensive for such an old MoBo. I bought it for 330$ USD...heh.

those mod points look a lil tight make sure you have a very fine tip on your iron for sure.... adjustable temp iron/soldering station will help alot.

if it is an older board you can have alot of trouble getting solder to stick.


what exactly did ya need to know?

Aye, I will look for a good one. I know a guy which own a TV and radio repair store. He's always helpfull, and I could probably borrow a good soldering iron/station from him.

It's pretty new, bought it brand new this summer. I think it could be one of the last revisions of the Commando. It had a pretty awesome bundle:p

So resistances are self tuned by adjusting the screw? And you use a volt meter to adusj them, right?

About the last picture, it's easy to understand. Should I go for that method?

And about Volt read, if I solder a cable onto it and fasten the end of it into a molex, I can read the cpu voltage with a volt meter?

Thanks, Kriz.

Been training on a old router board today, I got a pretty standard soldering iron, which are a little to big for MoBo and GPU's. Anyway, I feel it was king of easy. Soldered some grounds , a few caps and some cables to random components. It doesn't seem very hard tbh. Just need some patient and a good iron.

Doubt you need to be a rocketscientist for volt modding a Commando :p

This method..

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/2...vdroopx.th.jpg

Or will this one be better?
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/757...domod01.th.jpg

Okay, first these two.


Will a 47k work instead of a 50k?
Which is ground, - and +?
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9630/img4002l.th.jpg http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/9351/img4004xn.th.jpg


This is my 100k one:
http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/5695/img4006o.th.jpghttp://img51.imageshack.us/img51/4856/img4008c.th.jpg


I'm really unsure how to tune these ones, but soldering the cables seems like a piece of cake.

This is my Equipment. + cabels.:) and MoBo
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/358/img4011ef.th.jpg

Do you have a Digital Multimeter?

yes. I'll take a picture of it.
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/7185/img4013q.th.jpghttp://img42.imageshack.us/img42/6097/img4014l.th.jpg

I'm I right?
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/8082/img4015q.jpg