Removing factory overclock on Nvidia Card?

[Philtor]

Hi Folks

I have an old Gigabyte 9500GT card that come with a factory overclock at the time. I want to revert it back to stock settings - what is the easiest way to do this please?

 

[FlyingScotsman]

Flash the bios with the stock version settings

 

[Philtor]

Is there no utility/app to do this without having to flash the BIOS?

Thanks

 

[VincentHanna]

No idea why you would do this, but use MSI Afterburner and underclock the GPU core

And have it start with Windows and apply your settings on startup.

 

[Woodsta888]

A factory overclock is stock settings. Flashing it wont do anything. You need to unclock it with MSI afterburner to the settings that the base card comes at. Why you want to do this, has it become unstable? Card that old probably needs a re-paste and it'll run happy again at factory settings.

 

[Philtor]

Thanks guys.

Reason I was thinking of doing it is the card is only used for WFH now and thought there was little point leaving it with the overclock if I wasn’t gaming.

Thought it might save on the electric bill lol

 

[FlyingScotsman]

Thanks guys.

Reason I was thinking of doing it is the card is only used for WFH now and thought there was little point leaving it with the overclock if I wasn’t gaming.

Thought it might save on the electric bill lol

I do know that hence I said flash it with the non overclocked bios the stock one.

 

[Philtor]

Think you have quoted the wrong post there lol

 

[4K8KW10]

If the aforementioned software allows - simply undervolt and underclock the GPU.

But this is a so old graphics card with only 50-watt rated TDP that doing so won't see much benefits, but anyways, maybe you will be able to lower the power consumption and dissipated heat down to 35-watt?!

 

[Woodsta888]

Thanks guys.

Reason I was thinking of doing it is the card is only used for WFH now and thought there was little point leaving it with the overclock if I wasn’t gaming.

Thought it might save on the electric bill lol

You coulkd underclock it and your TV in standby will burn more power in 1 hr in what that card would save from underclocking it over 5 years. Not worth it. You'll never see the saving as it will be a decimal of a whole 1p. If you don't game on it it wont overclock itself. It will run at idle clocks.

 

[andy_mk3]

Thanks guys.

Reason I was thinking of doing it is the card is only used for WFH now and thought there was little point leaving it with the overclock if I wasn’t gaming.

Thought it might save on the electric bill lol

Will make little to no difference at all. It's a 13 year old GPU, it's never going to be efficient. But having said that the maximum power draw isn't all that high either.

 

[4K8KW10]

Maybe they want lower noise from the fans - just lower the voltage and frequencies, and then adjust the fan curve, so that it's silent most of the time.

 

[Minstadave]

Maybe they want lower noise from the fans - just lower the voltage and frequencies, and then adjust the fan curve, so that it's silent most of the time.

If silence was the goal, not gaming, I'd just unplug the fan to be honest (not recommending it, but I'd do it) - I doubt it'd get hot enough to run into any issues, its a 50W max card so non gaming power draw will be tiny. Some of them are passively cooled without a fan iirc.

As above, I wouldn't worry about its power draw enough to bother underclocking it.

 

[Philtor]

Thanks for all the help guys not really worth the hassle then it seems.

Yeah this card is a bit of an antique now lol surprised it’s still working tbf.

 

[varkanoid]

50mhz overclock over base 600mhz. Yep not worth bothering.

 

[Philtor]

Cheers.

 

[andy_mk3]

Chances are in general use its not even hitting the higher 3d clocks anyway. Even if it is, under low load its not using much power.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

As above if it downclocks when idle then pointless underclocking the 3d clocks on it.