NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

[Pelinox]

At stock it was one of the better cards with a decent GPU score on the OcUK leaderboard..

With the extra volts and higher power limit it's going to be interesting..

Which numbers am I supposed to edit in KBT to allow for a higher power limit?

 

[JamesM]

What card you you have?

 

[Pelinox]

The same as yours, 2x MSI 970 Gaming

 

[JamesM]

Perfect, Power Table tab, scroll down to the very bottom. The 3rd group up you should see

50% - 100000
100% - 200000
115% - 220000

Change the bottom figure to 250000. It will automatically increase the percentage for you and should read 125% now.

Save the bios and flash, bingo. You now have a 125% power limit

Bare in mind that flashing can go wrong so be careful and also your card maybe limited with volts, not just the power limit. So although changing it to 250000 is an increase (and still less than the Gigabyte G1 of 280) your card may not boost or clock higher

 

[Pelinox]

Perfect, Power Table tab, scroll down to the very bottom. The 3rd group up you should see

50% - 100000
100% - 200000
115% - 220000

Change the bottom figure to 250000. It will automatically increase the percentage for you and should read 125% now.

Save the bios and flash, bingo. You now have a 125% power limit

Bare in mind that flashing can go wrong so be careful and also your card be limited with volts, not just the power limit. So although changing it to 250000 is an increase (and still less than the Gigabyte G1 of 280) your card may not boost or clock higher

Excellent, thanks. Will try it in a few minutes, will however just pull one of the cards out to avoid any confusion that might cause

 

[JamesM]

Clearly your going to be editing your original bios so keep a stock copy of that too incase it goes wrong.

 

[Pelinox]

Yea of course

 

[JamesM]

If you didn't want to edit your bios I have uploaded mine here

MSI Gaming 970

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=51687183634051522163

Thats with a +125% power limit and voltages set to 1.275v

Open with Kepler Bios Editor and have a look at what I changed

 

[Pelinox]

And... It works

 

[Ayahuasca]

So flashing works now?

 

[JamesM]

And... It works

Fantastic

See how you get on and watch GPUz and see what the PerfCap reason is

 

[Pelinox]

Getting VRel and VOp running Heaven

 

[JamesM]

Getting VRel and VOp running Heaven

Then sadly your limited with voltages so you probably won't notice a difference in scores unless you change those.

 

[Pelinox]

Then sadly your limited with voltages so you probably won't notice a difference in scores unless you change those.

Well, it is able to run at 1580mhz now, 1560 was the max before, but yea not much difference there

 

[Geeman1979]

So flashing works now?

Get on it, will be interesting to see what your cards capable of

 

[Ayahuasca]

I think I'd be able to surpass 1600mhz stable with some added voltage and power then use K-Boost in precision to hold it stable. It means doing a driver reinstall though. I'm lazy

 

[Geeman1979]

Pfft! not even 5 mins for a driver install. Download, custom install, check clean install box and wamo!

 

[Deleted member 66701]

anyone figuired away of flashing cards in SLI? Mine are watercooled and linked with rigid tubing, so not an option to pull one and flash the remaining one then reverse.

 

[Kaapstad]

New version 8.0 of GPUZ available I have just started a thread with the info.

It should be useful to GTX 970 and 980 owners for extracting the BIOS

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18631872

 

[opethdisciple]

Im thinking of picking up this instead of the Gigabyte G1?