Airwolf24how do you mod and install a bios?
PiospivulcZ BIOS 2 sounds perfect! Currently now with stock BIOS some games will cause my card to reach 80c (but never above), and I do notice the card lowers its speeds at that point. I'm not a huge fan of modifying fan profiles through Windows, I'd rather it done at the BIOS level. Going to be trying this BIOS, thanks! Are fan profiles affected at all? Or is the same fan profile from the stock fan kept? I kind of like it because it isn't very loud at all. Though that may be because my card never exceeds 80C. Are you able to recommend? Is it safe BIOS? What are the results of your tests? :)
vulcZ BIOS 2 sounds perfect! Currently now with stock BIOS some games will cause my card to reach 80c (but never above), and I do notice the card lowers its speeds at that point. I'm not a huge fan of modifying fan profiles through Windows, I'd rather it done at the BIOS level. Going to be trying this BIOS, thanks! Are fan profiles affected at all? Or is the same fan profile from the stock fan kept? I kind of like it because it isn't very loud at all. Though that may be because my card never exceeds 80C.
Scarlet-TechI think you are confused. Re-read my question. Why NOT set it to pull 200w at 100% and 225w at max slider. Then it WOULD make sense. It's a simple question and nowhere did I state anything bad would happen. This goes back to the same statement you made of disabling the sound driver you never needed to install, rather than not installing it in the first place. When you say stuff like that it looks bad, especially when you wave your computer knowledge around in the forum constantly. I can appreciate that you are trying to help, but taking advice is free. Don't feel as though everyone is attacking you. If you set it to pull 200w at 100% and it works fine, then set it to 115% (or what ever max slider is adjusted to for percentage) at it pulls 225w for overclocking, that would make sense. Rather than saying "meh, I set Bios two to run at max wattage all the time at 100%", you could say, "setting it to 115% will provide max wattage capable." <- still doesn't say anything bad would happen. Stock=200w Overclock capability =225w, just slide that silly little slider over to 115% or whatever max is set to. If you aren't going to get over 225w, then setting it to the max available slider option would make the most sense. Past this, I honestly don't care. It was a suggestion. Your statement in bold make absolutely zero sense, just like the disable the audio thing.
r0ach Three reasons: #1 Anyone that cares about things like mouse response doesn't install programs like Afterburner, so the slider option shouldn't be available to anyone that's actually seeking optimal gaming performance. I mean, when's the last time you saw someone running Afterburner in a Counterstrike, DoTA, or League of Legends tournament? I don't play to lose. #2 My card was pulling up to 196w at default boost speeds of 1400, so setting it to 200w at default power slider is too low of a buffer. #3 Why is it so hard to just *not* increase the power slider if you do install Afterburner? Even if you do increase it, it's not going to do anything, you can still overclock the same.
PiospiThat sounds nice :) Thank you very much for the answer. Does the BIOS has the same settings as original BIOS from here: http://forums.evga.com/EVGA-GTX-970-ACX-Firmware-Update-v11-m2228516.aspx ?EDIT: I mean fan settings.
chrcolukr0achtrek554you 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". chrcolukmy 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...I guess i got lucky then, dont shoot the messenger. It doesnt goto 1531 in games, for whatever reason it only hits the rated boost speed in games, but unigine benchmarks it reaches 1531, it is reported on the top right whilst it is running I watch it during the bench to see if ti moves and it doesnt, it stays on that until I stop the bench. Ok an update both nvidia inspector and evga precision report 1405 during the unigine bench, unigine itself reports 1531, but I dont know where it gets that from. The 1405 is static tho, its not bouncing up and down plus is above the rated boost speed so I have no reason to complain.
r0achtrek554you 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". chrcolukmy 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...
trek554you 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.
chrcolukmy FTW gets to 1531mhz during unigine benchmarks and stays pegged there, no stutters, no jumping up and down.
rockketmanI get I/O error: cannot open file whenever i try to flash, looked online with no help. Anyone here can help?
Scarlet-TechrockketmanI get I/O error: cannot open file whenever i try to flash, looked online with no help. Anyone here can help? Try making a folder directly in the C:/DriveLabel it nvflash. Put everything from nvflash program in that folder as well as the bios you are trying to flash. Open the command prompt. Type:Chdir:\Nvflash <enter>(this should change c: over to nvflash) Next type:Nvflash --protectoff <enter>Nvflash -4 -5 -6 biosname.rom <enter>Do not skip the step change directory. See if that helps.
vulcZPiospivulcZ BIOS 2 sounds perfect! Currently now with stock BIOS some games will cause my card to reach 80c (but never above), and I do notice the card lowers its speeds at that point. I'm not a huge fan of modifying fan profiles through Windows, I'd rather it done at the BIOS level. Going to be trying this BIOS, thanks! Are fan profiles affected at all? Or is the same fan profile from the stock fan kept? I kind of like it because it isn't very loud at all. Though that may be because my card never exceeds 80C. Dont run furmark, its torture to the gpuAre you able to recommend? Is it safe BIOS? What are the results of your tests? :) Yes I definitely recommend it. Been running it the last few days and I have nothing negative to say. I haven't done much benchmarking, but after some very quick and dirty tests, I can verify that my card runs at a higher turbo frequency ~1400+ a lot more than it used to with the stock BIOS. It's evident by looking at GPUz that the card now has a higher TDP. My temps haven't changed at all in my testing, unless I tried OC Scanner (furmark). Before, my card would get to 80*C and stay there. Now, it gets up to about 83*C, but clock speeds are higher. With the stock BIOS my card would stay under 1200mhz with furmark at 80*C. I have screenshots at home (I'm at work right now), so I'll come back and update this with more information later. But yes, so far I think this is a very good BIOS. Zero complaints from me.
PiospivulcZ BIOS 2 sounds perfect! Currently now with stock BIOS some games will cause my card to reach 80c (but never above), and I do notice the card lowers its speeds at that point. I'm not a huge fan of modifying fan profiles through Windows, I'd rather it done at the BIOS level. Going to be trying this BIOS, thanks! Are fan profiles affected at all? Or is the same fan profile from the stock fan kept? I kind of like it because it isn't very loud at all. Though that may be because my card never exceeds 80C. Dont run furmark, its torture to the gpuAre you able to recommend? Is it safe BIOS? What are the results of your tests? :)
rajinator12Hey Scarlet-Tech. I got my GTX 970 FTW last month. Is this fix required? Also is it compatible with my current PSU - EVGA Supernova G2 750w?
TChittenden IIThis is interesting stuff. Can anyone tell me if the FTW+ suffers from the same TDP ceiling? Would it benefit from a modded BIOS? I assume the FTW and FTW+ BIOS are not interchangeable.