Intro

On a chilly Sunday in March we decided to occupy Gamer's house for a few hours, the purpose of all this was to achieve one of the highest 3DMark scores. A silly starting point, but any reason will suffice when there is booze to be drunk!
First of all we would like to thank Wallabie for giving us the opportunity to experiment with this hardware! The whole PC was delivered to us by Wallabie ! Many thanks go out to them for making this possible! We also got 2 Peltiers, 172Watt for the CPU and 80Watt for the GPU (vidcard). Our expectations were quite high since these pelts were to be used in Gamer's home-brew water cooling which uses a Porsche radiator!

We encountered a skilled Solder-boy through our local forums, who handles his solder pen like it was his own light sabre! We invited him to join us that afternoon.

his weapon:

this solder pen works on gas and is very easy to use!

Geforce 3 Ti 500

With the information we found on this site Anthroplast began his work...

Here you see him trying to figure out why he has so many hair on his head.. or maybe not :)

This chip was to be sacrificed first, even with a steady hand it is a hard job to do.

The result is quite astonishing.

The 2nd chip had to be modded with 2! resistors, but no problem for Mr. Anthroplast -> Congratz!

We ended up with this voltmodded GF3 Ti500

Enermax 350W EG365AX-VE

When he was through with the Geforce3 he started to look around for other stuff to mod. It didn't last long before he had Calantak's Enermax opened up:

Somewhere we have to attach a variable resistor.

Resistor #282 according to some sources, this one should be altered.

with small pliers and solder pen he removed the "old" resistor

front and backside of the pcb.

The endresult, now the 5v rail can be adjusted up to a stable 5.3v!

Disaster strikes / Game Over...

When fitting the 172Watt TEC there was a small accident, one of the wires broke off, leaving us with a broken cpu TEC. Without it the results are going to depend on how high we can get the videocard. Unfortunately even with the 80Watt TEC and watercooling the Core of the vidcard refused to go any higher :(

It might look good, but that's it..:(

Anthroplast doesn't want to quit just yet and asks us for the 172Watt pelt.

The victim of the brute force of Gamer :)

Solder action in a last attempt to save the pelt.

It's working alright, but time is not on our side :(

Conclusion!

After all it was a fine Sunday afternoon. Some missed out on a delicious rice table, while others were attacked by black cats. Although the results PC-wise weren't that great, we certainly had a great time. Someone even passed the whole afternoon in search of a magnet so he could boot his PC :)

The following "l33t" forumspeeps were present

Jay-Jay, Stigmata, Footprint, Calantak, ]as]e, TerAngreal (the movieman).
this is the only photo material I could get from Gamer, who was working all the time :)
No pictures of me, for now...

last but not least I leave you with this photo... no comments...