Just a small note to all of you modding your units. I had 6 of mine not working and it seems they were not working because the screws were too tight and some solders snapped off. So be VERY careful when you put your pods back together! Right now, from 30 modded units it seems I only ended up with 1 paperweight (seems like one pod is too damaged 
) with the other 5 being recovered, which is good enough for me 
) with the other 5 being recovered, which is good enough for me Wow..how much torque did you use? I've tightened some pretty tight and was a bit worried, but so far nothing adverse that I have noticed. Still using the stock crappy blue maxipad and some added arctic silver 4 (yes I've read the warnings against using it...its fine in my opinion/research).
I have noticed, as someone posted earlier, some that work great for awhile at >1150 stable then hours or day later start throwing HW errors and have to be lowered..permanently. They also seem to perform better or worse at different times of day. I don't think that is heat related where I have them, may be power sags?
Personally if any of mine did >=1000 stock I don't think I would mod that one. Best I have seen stable is 925, but I only have 7. I have a few more ordered and after the trial at stock speed I may just do the two jumper mod, or leave them stock. 7W is pretty nice vs. 25+.