Tutorial: How to softmod to ANY VGPU you want without hardmods! (1.3~1.6v or more)

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mine 4870 is limited to 1.46v if i set higher rivatuner shows that it is higher but DMM shows 1.46v.

i still havent fixed boot problem, how have you managed to deal with that?

ok, let me try to answer your question first. As i sed earlier, I used the page 5 of this guide linked to below where the guy explains how to do it but i suspect the info there is incomplete:

http://www.ocxtreme.org/forumenus/showthread.php?t=4427

So I actually had a hard time getting it to work at first myself and i had to do a bit of playing around as i never done it before either. So to get to the menu displayed in the article you go the Launcher section of the RivaTuner. Once there you click on the green plus symbol in the lower left corner to add a new item. A menu will pop up, in there select the default option "Regular Item". That will take you the menu. Fill it out. I personally skipped the "Associated Overclocking Profile" and "Associated Fan Profile" because i use ATI Tray Tools for that. The "Associated Application" section has to be filled out like the guy did in the screenie but obviously you have to enter your values. I also entered "/sd0" before the registars info because i only have 1 card. I'm not exactly clear if it needs to entered at all for single cards but i did anyway and it worked for me so i recomend you try it this way first as well. After thats click OK & go to the Scheduler section of RivaTuner, there you will see the task you created. Right click on it and select "Edit Application". In the screen that pops up make sure that "Item" is selected in the "Launch" section, the name of your profile appears in the "Name" section and under "Run Task" it should say "Launch at Windows Startup". Click OK (and after i think also "Apply" on the main RivaTuner window, i dont remember exactly) and after that a new startup item should be added to your startup. It should look something like this: "C:\Program Files\RivaTuner v2.22\RivaTuner.exe /S". If you r using RivaTuner to overclock and you already have a RivaTuner overclocking profile you should already have the above path
in startup, i would assume that it would be edited with the new info if you entred your overclocking profile and/or the voltage registars info. I'm not sure as i dont use RivaTuner to overclock so in my case i had a new startup item. So there you have it. This is what i've done, i'm just hoping i'm not forgetting something. Alternatively, you can use Windows Scheduled Tasks but i never used that so i cant help you there. Try it and see if it works & if you have questions let me know.


In regards to voltages, 1.46v seems awfully high to me. Are you watercooled? I suppose i should've asked it a bit differently: whats the highest safest voltage for air cooled cards with aftermarket cooling? Meaning what voltage would fry my card with that setup. I obviously dont want that to happen and just want to know what is safe.