Asus A7N8X Deluxe Modification Guide

The Mods
First we'll take a look at the CPU and MEM volt mods.
 

This is for the CPU volt mod.	This is for the memory volt mod.	This pin is used to measure the voltage of the memory.	My resistors for the CPU vmod in a series.	Up close shot of the CPU vmod.	Color coated mem vmod

For these mods, you'll take a variable resistor of the values given (in the first two pics), solder a wire to that pin to one of the pins on the VR, and then another pin on the VR to a ground on the motherboard.  I've chosen to use the fan plug grounds on the motherboard as I don't use 3-pin fans, or if I do they're hooked up to a baybus.  In the third pciture, you'll notice there is an arrow.  That is the pin you will use to read the voltage.  To do this, you'll touch one pin from the multimeter on that pin, and then put the other multimeter pin on a ground, and you should get the voltage.

I set my cpu vcore to .4v over the normal.  That enables me to have up to ~ 2.25v or so when I set it to 1.85v in the bios.  It gives me 2.05v @ 1.65v then.  For the memory I set my VR to give me 3.05v @ the stock setting of 2.6v. I have noticed though, that the max voltage I can get is 2.17v on my board before overvolt protection kicks in.

Next, we'll look @ the chipset voltage mod, aka the VDD volt mod.  For this mod there are actually two ways you can do it.  The second way was recently discovered and it's a bit easier and less risky.  I will show how to do both of them.
 

First method close up	First method overview	Second VDD voltage mod method

The first and second picture illustrate the way to do the first method of the VDD voltage mod.  You will take a 1megaohm standard resistor + a megaohm variable resistor, so you have the range of 1megaohm resistance to 2megaohm resistance.  This translates into 1.9v @ 1megaohm and 1.75v @ 2megaohm.  I have actually re-done my voltage mod with a 470k ohm standard resistor + a 1megaohm resistor.  @ 470k ohm resistance you will fry the motherboard, as you'd probably juice in like 2.4V into the chipset heh, so I recommend you make sure when you fire it up you have the 1megaohm variable resistor @ 1megaohm, and NOT zero so your total resistance is 1.47 mega ohms.  Then you can go from there.

Also, do note on the picture on the far right, which is the second method--I just used the picture on the left again, but with the illustration on which pin to use.  You use the 3rd pin, the green one.  And it's the same procedure.  1M Ohm + 1M Ohm variable, or if you want  the ability to go above 1.9v, 470k Ohm + 1M Ohm variable.  You would solder from that pin to the resistor, to a ground, just like the first mod ;)


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