Uplifting the power limit on my 4 GPUs?

Vector Sigma · 19 Mar 2016 at 13:39

BluD said:
They were suggesting that if you hard mod the cards and try and run them at the sort of speeds benchmarkers use that it would reduce the life of the card significantly which is correct yeah, without extreme cooling massively overvolting a card would kill it pretty quickly.

Just flashing a new bios with a reasonable overclock on it wont decrease the life of the cards though no, so if thats what theyre gonna do then im sure youll be fine.

I have a dual loop for the 4 GPUs.

I don't intend on overclocking them massively anyway.

BluD · 19 Mar 2016 at 14:19

Sry by extreme cooling i meant phasechange/dry ice/liquid nitrogen, water cooling doesnt really allow for much more voltage as a good air cooler can virtually match it.

If ya don't really intend on overclocking the cards much then i wouldnt bother modding or even bios editing, i would just use an overclocking program and leave it at that.

joeyjojo · 19 Mar 2016 at 14:35

BluD said:
Sry by extreme cooling i meant phasechange/dry ice/liquid nitrogen, water cooling doesnt really allow for much more voltage as a good air cooler can virtually match it.

Just to hammer this point home for the OP, this means getting it down to the -50 C sort of range, not ~ room temperature as good water can do.

wesimmo · 19 Mar 2016 at 14:54

Why would you want to spend money to potentially wreck 4 graphics cards due to excessive voltage if you don't intend to overclock them much anyway? Or am I missing your point?

P4Clock · 20 Mar 2016 at 12:27

joeyjojo said:
Just to hammer this point home for the OP, this means getting it down to the -50 C sort of range, not ~ room temperature as good water can do.

wesimmo said:
Why would you want to spend money to potentially wreck 4 graphics cards due to excessive voltage if you don't intend to overclock them much anyway? Or am I missing your point?

Me think he as no idea what hes trying to do

Vector Sigma · 21 Mar 2016 at 00:33

wesimmo said:
Why would you want to spend money to potentially wreck 4 graphics cards due to excessive voltage if you don't intend to overclock them much anyway? Or am I missing your point?

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear.

I mean, I don't intend on overclocking them recklessly to the point where, I'll end up frying the cards. They're already moderately overclocked by using MSI Afterburner by the vendor. I've managed to push them more until I started getting the nVidia driver error messages which, according to them means you've reached your limit. There is no going further unless the power limit on the cards are uplifted.

After having spent a fortune on the system, I initially felt it was unfair not to have full control to how much/far I can push them regardless of the fact if I have no plans to become hardcore overclocker.

I'm leaning against the idea of flashing a customer bios.

Threepwood · 21 Mar 2016 at 03:28

Just be happy with what you have got, if you don't want to become a hardcore overclocker then stop trying to/wanting to/paying through the nose to do hardcore overclocking.

If you want to throw money around find a good local cause and give to that.

Vector Sigma · 21 Mar 2016 at 17:49

Thanks for everyone for their thoughts, and suggestions.