I haven't voltmod a card since 2003-2004, with basically the same card (9600Pro, and 9600XT) Last time I wasn't cautious, when I taking voltage measurement my hand slipped and shorted the card, a loud bang with showering SMD resistor with black spot on ground zero The smell of burning silicon fills my room, I disappointed and never done another voltmod again.....

...not until my friend gave me his 9600XT to me recently, which exactly the same as I voltmod years back (Powercolor 9600XT BRAVO), and luckily I still keep the resistor used to voltmod the card, so I said what the heck and go with tehe voltmod....

First I used a beefier fan (stock Prescott fan on top of stock heatsink)


The volmod area, I only focused on Vcore, the wire is for Vcore measure...


...and this is the other end of the wire, for easier measuement so I don't short things up like last time


What you see is what you get. The actual voltage after voltmod, forgot to take the stock Vcore shots (stock is at 1.225V)


Any improvement in overclocking? With stock Vcore, it only manages paltry 20MHz overclock from stock 500MHz. Now it reaches more exciting +100MHz overclock, the only problem is the temperature. 60C load on 9600XT is very hot, so I kept it at 580MHz when playing games (load is 56C)

You expect any benchmarks? Sorry I don't have time for that the only thing I test is GTA San Andreas, at 1280x960 16X AF, average frames upped from 20-25 to 35-40 on crowded places. Tomorrow I'll get my AM2 mobo back so this is the last bow for this card, but I don't want to kill it

600Mhz is poor though, with the same resistor my previous card reaches 630MHz while the memory reaches as high as 834MHz while this card only manages 760MHz (memory is at stock Vmem), and this without any additional fan, just the stock HSF! And for the record, the old card beats 9700Pro on 3DMark03, I still remember the score 4845marks and the fastest stock cooler 9600XT on Guru3D, and I believe the fastest stock cooler 9600XT in the world