The GIGABYTE GA-G1975X displays good overclocking potential but is greatly limited by CPU core voltage issues. The CPU voltage drops a lot under load, and this greatly impacts the overclocking on this board. Fear not though, we have tried to perfect this board with a simple core voltage modification.

As you can read in our review of this i975 chipset board, we pointed out the good and bad of this board. Now we try to rectify the bad, to make this board closer to perfection. All you need is some simple soldering skills. If you are new to voltage modifications, why not read VR-Zone's Voltage Mod Guide?

Locate the ISL6556 voltage regulator chip located right next to the CPU socket, as seen above. Next, solder a 500K ohms variable resistor to the side of the resistor shown above. Set at maximum resistance of 500K ohms, and connect other end of VR to any grounded spot. Lower resistance to increase voltage. As there is no hardware monitoring for CPU core voltage, I used CPUZ v 1.32 to monitor vcore as I slowly fine tune it real time in windows. Tune it very carefully and slowly.

This should help with the voltage issues many overclockers are facing with this board.

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