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    hi, im new to bios editing/flashing and last night i flashed my first bios, but i noticed my voltage was pinned at 1.2300V just on desktop, is this normal?

It could be normal depending on your monitor setup. 

I'm using a dual 1080p monitor setup, one 144hz and the other 60hz, would that be it? Also is it ok if it's always at that voltage?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure your monitor setup is causing the problem. This should fix the problem...
 
#1 Download NVIDIA Inspector and run it.
#2 Right click on the button that says "Show overclocking" and select "Multi Display Power Saver"
#3 Under the Target GPUs section check mark both GPUs.
#4 Check mark run multi display power saver at startup.
#5 Check mark activate full 3d by gpu usage and adjust the threshold to 30%.
#6 Close NVIDIA Inspector. 
#7 Reboot PC.
#8 Check to see if clocks are running at lower speeds. 
 
Running it at 1.23v all the time would be ok as long as your temps are fine.

I went with a custom BIOS for my FTW cards from this thread...about half way down the page. 
 
http://www.overclock.net/t/1573308/nvidia-gtx-900-cards-custom-bios-upon-request/5490
 
My card's ASIC is given as 77.8 & 75.2%. With the BIOS its stable at 1507 Mhz. Firestrike went from 24769 to 25549 with no other changes. Unigine Heaven went from 163.8 / 4127 to 174.3 / 4390 at the program's default settings run at the desktop's resolution, 3440 x 1440. 

Sajin

t1gertea

Sajin

t1gertea
    hi, im new to bios editing/flashing and last night i flashed my first bios, but i noticed my voltage was pinned at 1.2300V just on desktop, is this normal?

It could be normal depending on your monitor setup. 

I'm using a dual 1080p monitor setup, one 144hz and the other 60hz, would that be it? Also is it ok if it's always at that voltage?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure your monitor setup is causing the problem. This should fix the problem...
 
#1 Download  and run it.
#2 Right click on the button that says "Show overclocking" and select "Multi Display Power Saver"
#3 Under the Target GPUs section check mark both GPUs.
#4 Check mark run multi display power saver at startup.
#5 Check mark activate full 3d by gpu usage and adjust the threshold to 30%.
#6 Close NVIDIA Inspector. 
#7 Reboot PC.
#8 Check to see if clocks are running at lower speeds. 
 
Running it at 1.23v all the time would be ok as long as your temps are fine.

Thanks for the advice, I tried the multi monitor power saver, but it just acts weird when ever it steps voltage and clock down and since temps are fine at idle with 1.23v, I think I'll just keep it there. Thanks.

What would you guys say is the max safe voltage to run on air?

1.28v should be fine as long as your temps are good.

What is a good water max voltage w good temps? 

Just don't go over 85c and you will be fine. Go ahead and try 1.274 as your starting if your on water

Hi there!

Got a EVGA SC 980ti pretty recently and I have started OC. Noticed that I usually go down to 1.155 on voltage during Witcher 3 for example. I dont go down quite as low on Heaven for example. It does not go above 1.118 during load though.

I have tried tinkering with Afterburner settings but changing the voltage does not seem to matter. Currently I am using a 110% max power limit since it wont let me go higher.

In GPU-Z i am usually getting Vrel and PWR limit under perf cap reason.

Do I need to probably flash my bios to get it to work better and how many percent extra performance will I realistically get?

Cant link my stock bios since I have not been a member for five days.  I have an ASIC quality of 78% if it matters.

chipstutte
Hi there!

Got a EVGA SC 980ti pretty recently and I have started OC. Noticed that I usually go down to 1.155 on voltage during Witcher 3 for example. I dont go down quite as low on Heaven for example. It does not go above 1.118 during load though.

I have tried tinkering with Afterburner settings but changing the voltage does not seem to matter. Currently I am using a 110% max power limit since it wont let me go higher.

In GPU-Z i am usually getting Vrel and PWR limit under perf cap reason.

Do I need to probably flash my bios to get it to work better and how many percent extra performance will I realistically get?

Cant link my stock bios since I have not been a member for five days.  I have an ASIC quality of 78% if it matters.

The voltage drop you notice is quite normal and I'm pretty sure it's due to temperature ranges (based upon observations on my own GPU). For the limits you're hitting, it should be fine and if you don't notice instability, you should be able to try and increase your clock speeds. If you think TDP is an issue however, I can help you create a custom bios with an increased TDP limit.

So I read that Kingpin said that Maxwell doesn't scale well with voltage. So is 1.274 not a good spot for these cards? If I pull the voltage back will it get higher clocks (obviously not going to pull the voltage too far back lol) just curious guys