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Tuesday, March 08, 2022 2:57 AM (permalink)
First of all Hi members, Its been a long time since I've been on the forum.
 
I have a question about the card in question below. I got this card many moons ago from B-Stock.
I've always had a problem with this card with doing the clocks/Mhz its was suppose to do.
With it being b-stock I got no info about the card just in brown box.Now to my question:
Up until the past two days I didn't even know it had a dual bios "BTW I still fold" and use this card still.
The card has always had the clock bug max core clock under load 405mhz memory stuck at 1502.3
no matter the clock settings changed in EVGA PrecisionX 16. Now I can get the core/GPU clock  to OC
a little to 481.9 Read by GPUZ. Just a little history before my question. Sorry for rambling..
The question is about the dual bios should those be different version? Slave is 84.06.0D.01.62
Master is 84.06.0D.00.60 is this the correct vbios configuration for this card?
 
I think this card may have been vbios modded at some point before I got it. Been looking into that to see
if I can find any help checking to see if the two installed vbios are stock or modded causing the issues.
 
 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/evga-gtx-960-supersc-acx-2-0.b3162
 
Part Number: 02G-P4-2966-RX
Description: Part Number: 02G-P4-2966-RX
Description: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC GAMING ACX 2.0+

Place Purchased: EVGA
Purchase Date*: 07/03/2015


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    Re: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC GAMING ACX 2.0+ 2GB Tuesday, March 08, 2022 4:15 AM (permalink)
    Does your card not have a vbios sticker on the back of it showing the original vbios version for the master? The vbios sticker may be under a backplate if your card has one.
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    Re: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC GAMING ACX 2.0+ 2GB Tuesday, March 08, 2022 4:25 AM (permalink)
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    Does your card not have a vbios sticker on the back of it showing the original vbios version for the master? The vbios sticker may be under a backplate if your card has one.


    I took the case cover off and had a look, and yes it does, its not a sticker, but painted into the PCB.
    The bios numbers doesn't match either of the above Its: 84.06.0D.00.62
    edit: This is on the slave. 
    Actually the slave bios OC's better under load than the master does.
    This is with just stock settings/default

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    Re: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC GAMING ACX 2.0+ 2GB Tuesday, March 08, 2022 4:42 AM (permalink)
    https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/?manufacturer=EVGA&model=GTX+960
     
    84.06.0D.00.60 appears to be the oldest vbios for your card while 84.06.0D.01.62 is the newest one with a higher power limit.
     
    00 & 01 tells which is master, and which is slave. 00 master, 01 slave.
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    Re: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC GAMING ACX 2.0+ 2GB Tuesday, March 08, 2022 4:47 AM (permalink)
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    https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/?manufacturer=EVGA&model=GTX+960
     
    84.06.0D.00.60 appears to be the oldest vbios for your card while 84.06.0D.01.62 is the newest one with a higher power limit.
     
    00 & 01 tells which is master, and which is slave. 00 master, 01 slave.


    Made a few edits in last post added screenshots. lol haven't done this in a while I a little rusty..

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    Re: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC GAMING ACX 2.0+ 2GB Tuesday, March 08, 2022 4:49 AM (permalink)
    No problem. Clearly your card should have 84.06.0D.00.62 as the master, and 84.06.0D.01.62 as the slave.
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    Re: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC GAMING ACX 2.0+ 2GB Tuesday, March 08, 2022 4:52 AM (permalink)
    I'll download & flash the correct to each as soon as I can stop folding at check point so I don't have to do frames all over again and see how that goes and report back, thanks for your help.

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    Re: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC GAMING ACX 2.0+ 2GB Tuesday, March 08, 2022 4:55 AM (permalink)
    No problem. 
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    Re: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC GAMING ACX 2.0+ 2GB Tuesday, March 08, 2022 5:17 AM (permalink)
    Updating the bios of the master didn't fix the problem I'm seeing.
    Will try a new flash of the slave just in case its corrupt, but it already has the correct version.


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    Re: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC GAMING ACX 2.0+ 2GB Tuesday, March 08, 2022 5:43 AM (permalink)
    The GPU clock falls off after a few mins. to 405 with the master & the slave holds at 531 under load.
    So it may not be bios related problem but a hardware problem.
    I'll post over at OverClock.net  and see if someone will have a
    look and do a custom bios with locked clocks to see if that will help.
     
    Thanks you for your time and quick replies.
     

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    Re: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC GAMING ACX 2.0+ 2GB Tuesday, March 08, 2022 11:47 AM (permalink)
    It's massively power limiting itself. We've seen that before as a hardware fault.

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    Re: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC GAMING ACX 2.0+ 2GB Tuesday, March 08, 2022 2:25 PM (permalink)
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    It's massively power limiting itself. We've seen that before as a hardware fault.

    Yeah well you would think EVGA would have tested the returned card before reselling it and not sold it again. Even at a reduced price it hasn't been worth the price I paid and a lot of headache for me over the years looking for ways to get it to preform the way it was intended too. 

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    Re: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC GAMING ACX 2.0+ 2GB Tuesday, March 08, 2022 2:50 PM (permalink)
    It probably would have been wise to ask these questions years ago so that EVGA could correct the deficiency.

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    Re: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC GAMING ACX 2.0+ 2GB Tuesday, March 08, 2022 6:20 PM (permalink)
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    It probably would have been wise to ask these questions years ago so that EVGA could correct the deficiency.

    Agree My time back then was much less than now days.
    Yes was my fault for not following up.
    Actually there is a thread here somewhere that I made on this this problem way back then.
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