help with maxwell bios tweaker and will this harm my 960

[36564176]

my gigabyte 960 will reach a few mhz over 1500 core, and increasing the voltage slider on msi afterburner doesn't help. i did some experimenting with maxwell bios tweaker and 1 turned off gpu boost and 2 i edited the power table and increased the limit, allowing the gpu to use more wattage. i got the card to go over 1600mhz core without crashing, but does this put my card under any kind of risk? since its not gonna put any load on the vrm i suppose it would stress the pcb? if temps are fine can i go wrong? also for the power table settings there are 7 settings for power limit, should i change them all or just the first one?

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

What you think will happen by pumping more power throughout the card?

[36564176]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

What you think will happen by pumping more power throughout the card?

i dont increase the voltage on my 960 at all, so will pure wattage with fine temps shorten the lifespan of my card significantly?

[Arya]

Diposting pertama kali oleh RADicalSievert:

i dont increase the voltage on my 960 at all, so will pure wattage with fine temps shorten the lifespan of my card significantly?

You're increased the power flow beyond the designed-in limits. What do you think is going to happen?

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Diposting pertama kali oleh RADicalSievert:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

What you think will happen by pumping more power throughout the card?

i dont increase the voltage on my 960 at all, so will pure wattage with fine temps shorten the lifespan of my card significantly?

Depends how much more we talking here when you made the changes on the power draw. Because depending what capacitors are on your card, can vary, or the chance that VRAM will go out before your capacitors.

Will it shorten the life by drawing more power? Yes, by how much, is depend how much more power you're drawing in comparison before doing the BIOS tweak.

[Arya]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Depends how much more we talking here when you made the changes on the power draw. Because depending what capacitors are on your card, can vary, or the chance that VRAM will go out before your capacitors.

Will it shorten the life by drawing more power? Yes, by how much, is depend how much more power you're drawing in comparison before doing the BIOS tweak.

Or to put it more bluntly, it ranges from 'a bad idea that will damage your GPU' to 'a really, really bad idea that will definitely blow up your GPU'

[Monk]

Bios tweaking us such a good idea that even I don't do it, and I short circuit my 1080ti's shunts to let them draw more power, and that's less risky lol.

Bios modding g should only be done if 1, you know what you are doing and 2, are prepared to blow the card for an overclocking record attempt.

[36564176]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Monk:

Bios tweaking us such a good idea that even I don't do it, and I short circuit my 1080ti's shunts to let them draw more power, and that's less risky lol.

Bios modding g should only be done if 1, you know what you are doing and 2, are prepared to blow the card for an overclocking record attempt.

I only messed with the bios once and that was to break my 1500mhz wall, I don't know how much I increased the power because there's 7 different max power things in the power table

[Arya]

Diposting pertama kali oleh RADicalSievert:

I don't know how much I increased the power because there's 7 different max power things in the power table

And that's the problem. You pushed a button without any idea what it did or how it would effect your system.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Diposting pertama kali oleh RADicalSievert:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Monk:

Bios tweaking us such a good idea that even I don't do it, and I short circuit my 1080ti's shunts to let them draw more power, and that's less risky lol.

Bios modding g should only be done if 1, you know what you are doing and 2, are prepared to blow the card for an overclocking record attempt.

I only messed with the bios once and that was to break my 1500mhz wall, I don't know how much I increased the power because there's 7 different max power things in the power table

I recommend revert your BIOS changes, if you're unsure what you were doing. Do proper research before proceeding, or before even attempting to do so, if this was just to get performance for gaming purposes, then that's not really a good reason to be doing this from the start. If you're doing this as a benchmark record as monk said, or to experiment with full knowledge that this could harm your GPU, but since you made the post about asking about safety, then it has to be for something else, which I can only assume for gaming, or help rendering something.

Some people do BIOS tweaks lower the wattage usage, which are normally miners, and other type of applications for rendering full load for long periods of time.

[TehSpoopyKitteh]

Don't use any BIOS tweaking software...You need to use the software that came with your video card to tweak clock levels. You will turn your video card into a paperweight if you mess around with the bios and mess it up.

[Arya]

Diposting pertama kali oleh The Spoopy Kitteh:

Don't use any BIOS tweaking software...You need to use the software that came with your video card to tweak clock levels. You will turn your video card into a paperweight if you mess around with the bios and mess it up.

You're better off using MSI Afterburner. Since some GPUs don't ship with proper OCing tools.

[36564176]

i reverted the bios settings right after testing the stability of 1600mhz, and i used msi afterburner to adjust the clockspeed. however i would like to understand how to change the power table since afterburner only allows an 8% increase in max power and max power is the main factor to how much my card can overclock.

[Monk]

thats due to it being a bit of a budget card, as such, the components wont play nice with feeding them loads more power, if you want more, unlock voltage control on afterburner and set the sliders all to max, that should provide a bit extra, beyond that, its bios time, but i dont mess with that as, frankly its too risky or you could try shunt modding the card, but thats not a safe option either (as you are then short circuiting the card to trick it into letting you pull more power).

[36564176]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Monk:

thats due to it being a bit of a budget card, as such, the components wont play nice with feeding them loads more power, if you want more, unlock voltage control on afterburner and set the sliders all to max, that should provide a bit extra, beyond that, its bios time, but i dont mess with that as, frankly its too risky or you could try shunt modding the card, but thats not a safe option either (as you are then short circuiting the card to trick it into letting you pull more power).

voltage increase doesnt break the 1500mhz wall, only my tweak of the power table did