Pentium777Before 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?
bain64Does this mod void the warranty?
XrayMan General information regarding Evga products: Using a Bios not authorized or condoned by Evga may void your warranty, if it is damaged by such Bios, and/or cannot be reverted back to the original Bios condition, including making the card inoperable by making such changes. Unauthorized changes to the BIOS or Firmware on a graphics card that does not have a Dual BIOS option, may cause this warranty to be null and void.
painis4thaweakPentium777Before 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?Another option: GPU-Z will allow you to save a card's current BIOS.
PeKINGWill this make the card run hoter? My card already reaches 74 degrees when gaming.
rjohnson11If your 970FTW is reaching 74 degrees then I would say your PC chassis cooling needs to be re-examined
r0achrjohnson11If your 970FTW is reaching 74 degrees then I would say your PC chassis cooling needs to be re-examinedYou 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. PeKINGWill 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
trek554you 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.
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.
pokulyMy 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.
trawetSluaPI 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.
bain64Look at bottom right of pcb, (looking down while installed in mobo). About an inch to the left are two micro switches.
r0achtrek554you 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. Says who? I noticed immediately the EVGA 970 FTW had way more tearing than the Gigabyte 970. I also noticed the EVGA 970 could not hold 99% gpu utilization in games where the Gigabyte 970 could. I then noticed the card was constantly pinging against the TDP limit over and over, so I made a BIOS to raise the TDP limit and now the excess tearing and fluidity problems are gone.
Pentium777 I see the tiny switches, 2 of them but how do I know which selected BIOS they're on and which of the two switches to move? If the 970 FTW has a double bios then why isn't it just a single switch to select BIOS 1 or 2?
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.
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...