Evga Voltage Tuner

[cantankerous]

man 1350 is low on your card i got same card and 1500 shader is easy good luck man with that.

Yea I know, pathetic. I could probably game with it higher than 1350, but when testing I want absolute, 100% stability. At 1350/675/1242 I am 100% game, furmark and ATitool stable, clean and artifact free. Any higher and I start to notice things. If this new software allows me to reach the same level of stability, and artifact free testing then I will be a very happy man. Anyone know if we can flash these new voltage settings to our card to keep them permanent? I never did like having to run software in the background to get my video cards to run the way I like.

[T_Flight]

Yea I know, pathetic. I could probably game with it higher than 1350, but when testing I want absolute, 100% stability. At 1350/675/1242 I am 100% game, furmark and ATitool stable, clean and artifact free. Any higher and I start to notice things. If this new software allows me to reach the same level of stability, and artifact free testing then I will be a very happy man. Anyone know if we can flash these new voltage settings to our card to keep them permanent? I never did like having to run software in the background to get my video cards to run the way I like.

I sure hope so. I OC with EVGA Precision and close it out and the OC's stick. I would hope those voltages would as well.

These EVGA cards are special. They really have a winner. This is just another thing that sets them apart now. They really got their stuff together at EVGA. Their support is awesome. They have great offers, and upgrade plans. They give special offers to EVGA customers. The cards are just georgeous in the looks department. They run super. Tghey have all kinds of OC versions. They even have watercooled versions. They have the EVGA Precision, and now they have this. This si the total package when you get one of these things.

I'm really happy with mine.

[T_Flight]

Oh yeah i think it should help you push the shader clock higher. From my experience, it's also very important to keep the temperatures as low as possible so you could overclock it more.

For example, on my 8800GTX with stock cooler that usually reached 85-87 degrees max, it could only overclock to 612 MHz core, but with Accelero Xtreme 8800 that keeps it under 65 degrees all the time, I can push it to 648 MHz core (and shaders higher too). Those large chips like it cool, and at higher densities (65nm, then 55nm) it's even more important to keep it cool to reduce power leakage, so that you also save electricity.

Wow, I'm surprised that eVGA has the balls to do this!! I mean, stock cooling on GTX 280's usually reached 85 degrees and some cards had cooling issues with reaching 105 C. I'm guessing that this issue only belonged to the earliest batch of cards during the first few weeks, perhaps because of faulty heatpipes or something.

I loved this feature with my X1900XTX, and was disappointed to find this software voltage tweak disabled on 3870 and 4870 cards that certainly had greater headroom for voltage increases with their stock coolers. The cooler on the X1900XTX could barely keep it cool enough at default voltage--now it just doesnt make sense how ATI isnt allowing 3870/4870 owners to increase voltage.....

The 285 is now looking that much more tempting. Would it be possible to fit my Accelero Xtreme 8800 on the GT200 cards?

I have never reached 80's ever. I've only reached 70's with stock cooling a couple times when I left the fan at default 40% when it was folding (forgot to slide the fan up). 71 actually. My card folds 24/7. I keep my fan at 80% at night, and 100% the rest of the time.

It's running now at 57 degrees folding with the GPU2 client. That's an SSC card and it's OC'd to 670/1451/1180. The people that had those issues had bad heat sinks or bad mounts that had somehow got by. I would not have a card that ran that hot...I'd send it back. There were probably a few in there that had the things packed into cases that had no airflow also. That happens.

I know they say these things are OK into the 80's to 90's, but I'll never run one at that ever. Rule #1 of the Overclocker has always been to control the heat. I'm putting mine on water to further lower the temps. I should get my stuff next week, and will have to see how long it's gonna take me to get that all tested out and setup. I bet the clocks go up. Talonman had great results with his EVGA GTX 280 after putting it on water. His bench scores went up, performance went up, temps went down, and clocks went way up.

[Jochenp]

I sure hope so. I OC with EVGA Precision and close it out and the OC's stick. I would hope those voltages would as well.

These EVGA cards are special. They really have a winner. This is just another thing that sets them apart now. They really got their stuff together at EVGA. Their support is awesome. They have great offers, and upgrade plans. They give special offers to EVGA customers. The cards are just georgeous in the looks department. They run super. Tghey have all kinds of OC versions. They even have watercooled versions. They have the EVGA Precision, and now they have this. This si the total package when you get one of these things.

I'm really happy with mine.

[STaRGaZeR]

Not really, you can raise the overs by 0.2v or so and Jacob has said you will still be under warranty.

It doesn't matter, my comment only says that 0,2v is a lot, and definitely not a small increase as he says. Nothing about warranty

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[SNiiPE_DoGG]

I sure hope so. I OC with EVGA Precision and close it out and the OC's stick. I would hope those voltages would as well.

These EVGA cards are special. They really have a winner. This is just another thing that sets them apart now. They really got their stuff together at EVGA. Their support is awesome. They have great offers, and upgrade plans. They give special offers to EVGA customers. The cards are just georgeous in the looks department. They run super. Tghey have all kinds of OC versions. They even have watercooled versions. They have the EVGA Precision, and now they have this. This si the total package when you get one of these things.

I'm really happy with mine.

I'm sorry. Your grammar in this post. Is really really. Funny.

but I agree that EVGA has their stuff together, I wish they would do the same things with sapphire considering they are owned by the same company (IIRC)

[AceBaran]

It doesn't matter, my comment only says that 0,2v is a lot, and definitely not a small increase as he says. Nothing about warranty

You are missing the point >_<

[STaRGaZeR]

You are missing the point >_<

I think you are missing the point. The original post was mine, and in it I say, with irony, that 0,2v is by no means a small increase as the EVGA representative says. Then some people missed the joke and started making things up. Just read the thread from the beginning

[slapmehard]

did anyone notice that he gets better results(he says air) then people did with a hard mod on air?

[Slay0r]

I sure hope so. I OC with EVGA Precision and close it out and the OC's stick. I would hope those voltages would as well.

These EVGA cards are special. They really have a winner. This is just another thing that sets them apart now. They really got their stuff together at EVGA. Their support is awesome. They have great offers, and upgrade plans. They give special offers to EVGA customers. The cards are just georgeous in the looks department. They run super. Tghey have all kinds of OC versions. They even have watercooled versions. They have the EVGA Precision, and now they have this. This si the total package when you get one of these things.

I'm really happy with mine.

[Genius_pt]

Really nice utility. Still we cant change memory voltage right?

[jagt]

I believe they paid Unwinder to make their Precision Utility, I wouldn't be surprised if he has a hand in this as well.

No, he does not: http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.ph...60&postcount=9

[clo007]

Precision is Rivatuner, I hope you know that.
The older versions show the rivatuner icon in the task bar when you open precision.

Precision is a stripped down version of RivaTuner that Unwinder re-worked for them. To say Precision is RivaTuner is false.

[Wiggy McShades]

I dunno about you guys, but my 55nm gtx 260 runs hot overclocked as is. Adding more voltage is a great idea if it were water cooled, but for the stock air cooling if you are using a case it is probably going to result in overheating. Granted im in a small dorm room that i have 0 control over the heat might make my heat issues only apply to me.

[cantankerous]

I dunno about you guys, but my 55nm gtx 260 runs hot overclocked as is. Adding more voltage is a great idea if it were water cooled, but for the stock air cooling if you are using a case it is probably going to result in overheating. Granted im in a small dorm room that i have 0 control over the heat might make my heat issues only apply to me.

I am in the exact same boat. Very cramped room that stores heat like an oven. I am running the 65nm variant as well which should theoretically run a little hotter than the 55nm parts. What sort of temps are you seeing exactly?

[Wiggy McShades]

I am in the exact same boat. Very cramped room that stores heat like an oven. I am running the 65nm variant as well which should theoretically run a little hotter than the 55nm parts. What sort of temps are you seeing exactly?

I'm getting into the 70's loaded with the fan at 80% and only at 700mhz 1512mhz on the shaders and 1100 on the mem.

[drnip]

Unwinder needs to reverse engineer it just like Evga did to RT.

This makes no sense at all seeing Unwinder also made Precision.

I am really excited about this utility though. EVGA is setting the bar high.

[BababooeyHTJ]

Does this mean that I could flash a higher voltage directly onto the card because that would make things much easier. I was told that you cant do any volt mods in the bios of a GTX260 a while back.

[BenchZowner]

Does this mean that I could flash a higher voltage directly onto the card because that would make things much easier. I was told that you cant do any volt mods in the bios of a GTX260 a while back.

Actually you can.
But not with the tools that are publicly available.
The same way eVGA Voltage Tuner does it, just implemented in the firmware ( in simple terms "they use the same 'switch', the Voltage Tuner will more than likely be a 'apply each time you enter windows(automatically or not)' thing while the firmware (BIOS) way is permanent".

[DMH]

Does this mean that I could flash a higher voltage directly onto the card because that would make things much easier. I was told that you cant do any volt mods in the bios of a GTX260 a while back.

No, I'm not related to this project. I follow "no public voltage control in my software" rule for many years since the very first display adapter with software adjustable voltage controller (GeForce FX) because I don't want to be blamed for damaging anyone's hardware. And I'm not going to change it, sorry.
For power users, RT provides command line interface giving direct access to any part of GPU (including programmable VRM installed on GTX 200 series) and there is _open_source_ VT1103 hardware monitoring plugin included in RT’s distributive, allowing anyone to get location and addresses of VRM registers really easy. This way RT is unofficially providing command line based software voltage mod feature for all reference design 4870 and GTX 200 series since these cards announce. You just have to dig a bit deeper, it is hidden from noobs and it is hidden purposely. So I don't know who is developing that tool, but it is definitively not me because I'm not too brave to take the responsibility to give these features to everyone via easily accessible GUI.

Looks like voltage mod by software is actually possible

[SAE]

Wish there were tools for all cards as I did not get an EVGA (availability) but an XFX instead.

/edit. ^^ But who's gonna be that brave man to develope such a tool with the help of given material (Rivatuner...)?

[T_Flight]

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Looks like voltage mod by software is actually possible

If I gotta waste my time with a stupid cmd line, I'll just vMod the card. He talks about that like that's something an enthusiast would waste their time with. Who in the hell wants to screw with cmd line interfaces? This guy so matter of factly talks "Welcome back to 1985".

[[XC] gomeler]

If I gotta waste my time with a stupid cmd line, I'll just vMod the card. He talks about that like that's something an enthusiast would waste their time with. Who in the hell wants to screw with cmd line interfaces? This guy so matter of factly talks "Welcome back to 1985".

If I had the time and knowledge I'd be jumping all over this. I'm sure you'll ask "but why, that is so 1985!" and the simple response is "no dead cards from soldering".

Right now I'm using an Asus Matrix HD4870 with their iTracker(Apple product?) which gives me up to 1.6vGPU and 1.8vGDDR5, more than sufficient for anything but LN2/DI. So much easier to just punch in voltages than screw around with adjustable resistors

[dengyong]

Precision is a stripped down version of RivaTuner.

Thank you Mr. Nicolaychuk for making your great utility better looking and easier to use.

[BababooeyHTJ]

Actually you can.
But not with the tools that are publicly available.
The same way eVGA Voltage Tuner does it, just implemented in the firmware ( in simple terms "they use the same 'switch', the Voltage Tuner will more than likely be a 'apply each time you enter windows(automatically or not)' thing while the firmware (BIOS) way is permanent".

Can this be done with nibitor or some other bios editor?