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Soldering Guide
Soldering Guide
If you want to push your hardware to the maximum you are bound to warm up the old soldering iron. To allow higher voltages to RAM/CPU/Videocard and other components you´ll have to use resistors. In this guide we'll show you how to effectively do this!
Author Marci
Editor jmke
Date 2004-02-29
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  You will need....

  • Good variable soldering iron with a fine tip unto 45w
  • acid less flux
  • good quality flux less solder
  • a solder sucker

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    Any dead PC Hardware has chips on with similar size legs for playing around with. I'm using a popped Asus motherboard....

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    And we're going to be going from a leg on the chip to the right, to a grounding ring on the left...

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    I use CD-ROM Audio leads or strands off old HDD Cables for wires for my volt mods. CDRom Audio leads have the handy connector at each end that an 18-turn Cermet style VR just plugs straight onto...

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    So, cut a CD-Rom audio cable in half. Look at the ends and find out which wires are the two outer connectors.... usually red and white.
    Start with the red wire (we'll use it as hot). This is done by stripping back a section of shielding, twisting the bare wires together,

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    dip into flux,

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    heat the wire with the soldering iron set to a fairly hot heat,

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    then touch solder to wire and it should lightly coat the wire with solder.

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    Voila.... it’s tinned.

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