Pentium777
Before using your BIOS what is the process to change the card to use an alternate BIOS so I can leave my original intact? Do I have to pull the card and change a switch?

Pentium777
Before using your BIOS what is the process to change the card to use an alternate BIOS so I can leave my original intact? Do I have to pull the card and change a switch?

PeKING
Will this make the card run hoter? My card already reaches 74 degrees when gaming.

r0ach

rjohnson11
If your 970FTW is reaching 74 degrees then I would say your PC chassis cooling needs to be re-examined

You forgot they released a BIOS update for the 970 ACX 2.0 cards to make the fan much quieter at the expense of running hotter.  The 970 ACX 2.0 cards went from sorta loud and around 66c to 75-76c and mostly silent under load after the update.
 
 

PeKING
Will this make the card run hoter? My card already reaches 74 degrees when gaming.

Not really, around 1c maybe.
 
Would you rather run with lots of tearing and stutter, or no tearing at all and 0.5c to 1c hotter? o_O

trek554
 you keep mentioning tearing over and over in this thread but tearing has nothing to do with throttling at all. and games will not stutter either just because you hit TDP. 

pokuly
My card is the king of throttlers and i second that. Stutter and tearing does not relate to this. Of course the fancy plot of the hardware monitor graph stutters :)
Reminds me on people seeing 30kHz tones in spectral views of audio and suddenly miss it in music when filtered out. No chance to hear it.

trawetSluaP
I tried this bios and while it reduced the TDP use from 100% to 90% it made no difference to clock speed, voltage or temps.
 
Not sure what this means haha.

r0ach

trek554
you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about at this point. even a card working properly  will throttle in various scenarios because that is how they are designed. no one  should ever see stuttering because of that unless the card is defective or there is driver issues. and screen tearing has zero to do with throttling and is only related to vsync.  

 
Seriously are you 10 years old?  I posted actual evidence of GPUZ graphs showing the gpu utilization issues where the EVGA FTW card could not hold 99% gpu utilization in Lichdom while the Gigabyte card could.  The issue was fixed by raising TDP.  If you for some reason think I'm lying about this also causing excess tearing and stutter, the GPU utilization issue is plain as day to see and how it was also fixed by raising TDP.  It's 100% my word vs yours and I actually posted proof and you have 0 proof of anything except childish name calling.  Do you own a Gigabyte 970 and an EVGA 970 to compare the two either like I did?  No? didn't think so.
 
If you're going to tell people "they don't know what they're talking about", you should try to avoid using caveman English with no capitalization, while also starting all of your sentences with "and".
 
 
 

chrcoluk
my FTW gets to 1531mhz during unigine benchmarks and stays pegged there, no stutters, no jumping up and down.

 
So on a website with much more knowledgable people about overclocking than this one, Overclock dot net, people overclocking MSI 970's with a 220w TDP limit were getting throttling at 1500mhz, yet you want me to believe your EVGA card doesn't throttle at 1500mhz with only 187w TDP limit?  I suppose it might be possible, but it would be comparing the worst binned MSI on the planet vs the best binned EVGA on the planet if true, then still probably not likely.  Either that or you're using the wrong game to determine just how much power the card can draw.
 
My EVGA 970 FTW needs 196watts to not throttle at 1400mhz in the most graphically demanding games.  I'm running an EVGA Supernova 1300w PSU with a single 970 GPU card so I'm not exactly straining my PSU here...