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is everyone ready for this with the help of builds ID we have bypassed some of the limitations on Vega 56 242 percent over power from 50 that will give us something like at least 340 watts but we're going for 400 watts nearly 380 Watts on this thing I think we're going to need better cooling at this point and so enters the next edition of the GN hybrid mod before that this coverage is brought to you by cable mod already well-known for their work in custom sleeved power supply cables cable mod is now venturing into liquid cooler tubes leaving with their new AIO sleeving kits compatible with Corsair and NZXT as of now check the link in the description below for more information ok let's get this thing started so you saw the new power target 242 percent offset we're going to turn this into a liquid cooled mod now that it's 3:20 in the morning that seems an appropriate time to be doing this so the plan is put a big cooler on this thing the biggest I have right now is the thermal take whatever it's called flow the 360 millimeter cooler so we're going to put one of these on there and I'll probably replace the fans with some some really really high performing fans so either the Noctua stuff or the corsair maglevs and we are also going to need this which is a plate we made previously for the Vega front erudition cooler and this basically we just drilled the holes where the mounting holes are for for Vega and it's all the same with this one so all we have to do theoretically is attach these things together so I'm just going to figure out where I want the tubes oriented first this time unlike last time okay alright that secures our plate now we need the screws which I forgot to get okay I forget which packs we use last time I don't feel like checking so it's going to kind of guess and check here I think we probably is these seen us there's a hole in the bed okay all right that looks promising so how did we do this again that we go through the top yes then I taped off the backside yes that's all correct okay it's coming back to me okay so I think we did this last time did we do that yeah we did that right screws to the top I'm just testing to see if it's going to work for the knocks I don't really remember what we did for the Vega Frontier edition mod all right this seems that right okay all right so here's what we're doing we are going to be offsetting the power on this card 240 percent I don't think it will actually do 240 percent offset but I mean it's just it's basically going to max us out and before we were hitting a limit either current limit or a power limit we were bumping into 300 watts can go higher and so I was told by builds I'd we should be able to as long as we keep the vrm to 100 C which we can definitely do and I'll put thermocouples on there to be sure we should be able to do at least three hundred sixty watts through this thing and I'm going to push for more and then hopefully that gives us more Headroom to get and just get more performance out of it so right now I'm just testing the mountain we're way off and once we're way heavier on one side than the other so we're going to fix that see if amounts correctly it's been a little while since we did this mod at a month now and if it looks like I remember we can forge ahead and put therole paste on it all right so we're clearing the chokes at the top we're clearing everything making contact with the entire GP die and the HBM so let's take it all back off and put thrown paste on it okay so while I'm doing this let me walk you through what the goal is we could not modify the fun on you bastard we cannot modify the BIOS for this alright you know what that's fine and that's because of an AMD security and validation feature it's just it's just not going to let us so we could flash BIOS but we couldn't even rename it what much less do anything useful with it AMD says this is to comply with a Microsoft secure boot protocol as we're currently aware that's not actually a necessary step but we've asked them to clarify and unfortunately walking BIOS like that means that you can't get the full power out of the card that it has I mean this vrm can handle it the GPU can handle it handle more power that is that it's doing and AMD is artificially locked Vega 56 we think so that it won't outperform its own Vega 64 they lose crazy money if that happened so that's what we that's a little conspiracy theory and this mod if we can get the overclock higher although scaling is a bit bad with Vega once you're approached higher power this mod will hopefully help us determine if we can outperform they got 64 with Vega 56 just going to put a lot everywhere because whatever is unnecessary will squish out and having too little in this case is going to be bad all right that should more than cover it I mean that'll come out a bit that's fine it's not conductive we are installing a power-play tables mod it's a registry edit because we couldn't get the BIOS edits to work thanks Andy and I believe it was done by helm on overclocking forums and build Zoid the builds are I'd helped out helm set the foundation did frontier addition and then we're kind of applying that knowledge to this card this is hard to do with two hands okay so now we just need all these to be about the same height so we don't crack with I I should check what we did last time I don't remember went to one point two one okay seven point two on alright shut up yes that is correct let's see that's good I think yeah almost good good okay so bottom line okay alright and we can call that and then I'll thermal test it and see how it does but we're making we're done we making contact and we're at the same offset of last time and last time it cooled insanely well so I think we're good yes that is for sure contact and it's for sure good amount of mounting pressure astute viewers might notice that there is a connector missing here that connector goes to the LEDs on the Radeon logo I didn't like the led so it's gone it's been removed now it does not affect performance it's an LED power header okay are we contacting anything here that we need to mask off no we've got probe points back here this is HBM to probe points right there we knit that with a DMM later and on v cores up here somewhere I've got it highlighted by builds ID so we can do all the probe lines and check things live while working on this which means I'm going to leave the backplate probably want to do that anyway next step anything too cool in the back all we have on the back of the voltage controller so we just need to cool the vrm and keep it under a 100 C which should be feasible and I'm going to do that mostly with direct airflow fans because these are exposed copper anyway so you care direct airflow fans should pretty much take care of us but let's just go ahead and do it the old-fashioned way just to be sure okay thermal adhesive just trying to use some that haven't been used before there's part of our HBM to be our m1 face single phase see these are the same height yeah I remember correct these are definitely the same height so we do one for each pair and then we're just going to blow around whatever doesn't get coverage there'll be one or two that don't get covered but those are the ones we hooked up thermocouples to last time and they just fine they were we're not complaining number one two three four five six seven eight nine ten okay alright cool time so that's what we got I can't touch this at this point it needs to dry some of those are better contacted than others but I'll look through it make sure they're all good and dried evenly on the surface of the FETs before we get testing but it needs to dry for a little bit first probably overnight there are two sets the tune ours is one one one sigh at two sets two sets that are not hit by these little heat sinks honestly they're not really needed anyway it's just kind of a formality because we're pushing the power limits so much higher I went ahead with it and includes the heat sinks the two that aren't covered are going to get plenty of airflow how you like 2,400 rpm times two of airflow on them they'll be fine so we'll have thermocouples and vines' probe as necessary make sure everything is happy other than that I think we're pretty much ready to test so that's the hybrid model for vegam 56 this one will be a little bit more exciting than normally because we've also mounted the power play tables so we'll be able to see how much further we can push it we also have an extra size up radiator normally we use a 120 this is a 360 which will definitely help as well we're not really concerned about noise or power here I just I'm curious how far Vega 56 can go because if we bypass the Andy limitations which we've kind of done indirectly with the registry mod then I want to see if it's a Vega 64 that's what I'm after because I don't think the extras to use if you look back in time they don't really do all that much at least compared to core clock so we can push this core clock even another well allowing to make predictions but we push the core clock higher it'll be only good things except for power consumption this is not going to be an efficient mod it's not something you should do you would waste a lot of power you're not going to gain a ton out of it but it'll be fun so sorry that's why we're doing it but as always you can help us out director this type of project by supporting on patreon.com slash gamers Nexus or grab a shirt like this one or our anniversary edition shirt at gamers Nexus at squarespace.com check back soon for the results thank you for watching subscribe for more I'll see you all next time you