I finally performed the vmem mod on my card. It's a MSI geForce4 Ti-4600. I was going to do SMD grabber mod a while ago, but they were just too big to have hanging off my card, although I'm still too scared to solder this thing

So I pulled the metal grabber out of two SMD's and used heat shrink tubing to secure the resistor. Also tried using it to keep the hook flush on the pins, but it was not as easy as I thought. This was a 1Kohm 1/2W resistor.

It's pretty ghetto, but it's smaller than the grabbers and easier than soldering:



I managed 760MHz memory vs. 742MHz I had without the mod. Not a huge jump, but it's running a bit smoother in BF1942 with details up. Actually it would run fine at 764/768 but with minor artifacting.

A few questions after doing this mod though:

1. Would some hot glue work okay for securing the grabbers?
2. How could I remove the hot glue if I decide to solder?
3. How can I check vmem with a multimeter?
4. What is the max safe voltage you would recommend? No W/C, just Tweakmonsters and fair case cooling.

Thanks