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DarthMurdicide
09-23-2009, 10:13 AM
OK, I have (3) BFG Tech GTX 260 OC cards. 216 core, 65nm die. Frankly I've had no issues with them, and they seemed to have OC'd nicely. I am playing around with the clocks on these cards, and have hit the ceiling without adjusting voltages. I think I have room to go, for the maximum temp I got on OCCT GPU test was 67c. I just need more juice.

Looks like the easiest method to increase voltages out there is with the EVGA GPU Voltage Tuner, but unfortunately it seems to be proprietary to EVGA cards only and will not recognize my BFG Tech card.

I have a couple of questions I wanted to ask...

1) Can my cards' voltages be adjusted with software, or do I need to do a hard mod? The model number for my cards is BFGEGTX260MC896OCE (newegg link http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143155).

2) If it can be soft modded, what is the best program to do it? I tried nibitor, but it didn't seem to recognize my cards. Tried the Performance Group under the nvidia Control Panel, but the GPU voltages were greyed out.

Thanks in advance for your help, :)

DM
overclocking101
09-23-2009, 11:17 AM
can you take a pic of the card without the cooler on it?? there is a mod with the evga voltage tuner to work on all nvidia cards. i have used it and gotten it to work on my friends 8800gt so it should definately work on your card hold on ill link the page
overclocking101
09-23-2009, 11:18 AM
ok here it is:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=215521

its the very forst one. just download read the readme's and follow the instruction very carefully
Asylum1
09-23-2009, 11:54 AM
Thats sweet.
I will have to try this myself on my 285.
Asylum1
09-23-2009, 02:17 PM
Doesnt work for the 285.
overclocking101
09-23-2009, 02:29 PM
what does it give you?? does it spit out an error??
Asylum1
09-23-2009, 02:33 PM
No it just dont do anything with the 285.
Works on my 295's
DarthMurdicide
09-23-2009, 03:21 PM
Just got off of work, will go home and check it out. Thanks for the link, I hope it works; I'll let you know.

Works like a charm, new voltages verifiable in Everest Ultimate. Thanks overclocking101!