flyinion

Sajin
I just max it out for extra stability. If you don’t black screen you’ll know you weren’t stable.

What setting are you putting the voltage control to in order to get 1.1mv?  It's showing as a % so I'm thoroughly confused and don't want to overvolt the card.  For the dropdown did you leave it on "Standard MSI" or put it on 3rd party or reference?

Maxing out the voltage slider will put it at 1.1. Yeah, standard.

But erm... why raise the voltage to begin with? Have you had stability issues with the default voltage?

Maybe I got lucky, but my card can run higher clocks below stock voltage and so far has been rock-solid in normal use: CP2077 PT with a bunch of mods - it's really the only one that needs an overclock at the moment.

I'd be wary of running 1.100 long term... if my card was not stable at stock then I'd send it in under warranty.

For extra stability, and the card gets better fps with additional voltage, and 1.1mv was suppose to be safe.

Hmmm a card is either stable or is not, at a given configuration core+mememory+voltage. How do you define "extra stability"? I'm genuinely curious.

First time I hear that one could get more fps out of static core+memory clocks but with additional voltage. Granted, I've not tested this myself as I'm aiming for the lowest possible voltage (for power efficiency and temperatures) not the highest :)

My card is stable at stock settings from what I could tell, but having a little extra safe voltage certainly shouldn’t have hurt anything. Yes, running extra voltage produces better scores in 3dmark from my testing. You never know when you might run into an application that might push your gpu in a way it doesn’t like, and having that extra .3mv might make the difference in your card running without any issues.

Sajin

flyinion

Sajin
I just max it out for extra stability. If you don’t black screen you’ll know you weren’t stable.

What setting are you putting the voltage control to in order to get 1.1mv?  It's showing as a % so I'm thoroughly confused and don't want to overvolt the card.  For the dropdown did you leave it on "Standard MSI" or put it on 3rd party or reference?

Maxing out the voltage slider will put it at 1.1. Yeah, standard.

Ok gave it a try, left AB open etc, The test in OCCT the voltage was getting reported as .89-.9mv though.  It didn't die after 30ish seconds though.  However I put AB back to stock voltage setting and got the same exact results.  I let the tests both run for a few minutes, before it would barely make it 30 seconds every time.  Only change is I closed out a couple open Edge tabs, Steam, and Discord leaving just a few basic background apps open so maybe something like hardware acceleration in Edge was interfering and causing issues before.  I never saw OCCT report 1.1mv.  My temps with OCCT capped out at 60 on die and 79 hotspot, but I also didn't have my fans ramped up, just my basic profile that runs off water temp and my filters are a bit dirty.  In most game use even for example MSFS 2020 which I've managed to hit 99% usage on with heavy weather/scenery going on my hotspot temps are typically 10-12 over the main and the main usually caps out in the low-mid 50's.

Sounds like the extra voltage helped you become stable. Nvidia does blacklist specific apps to keep them from using max voltage like furmark, so it looks like occt is one of those apps.

Try running cp2077 with the voltage slider maxed out, and you’ll definitely see 1.1mv being used.

Sajin
Sounds like the extra voltage helped you become stable. Nvidia does blacklist specific apps to keep them from using max voltage like furmark, so it looks like occt is one of those apps.

Try running cp2077 with the voltage slider maxed out, and you’ll definitely see 1.1mv being used.

Hmm not sure on that since I put it back to default after.  I think it was a background thing/etc causing a conflict.  Unfortunately I don't own CP2077 so can't really test with that.

flyinion

Sajin
Sounds like the extra voltage helped you become stable. Nvidia does blacklist specific apps to keep them from using max voltage like furmark, so it looks like occt is one of those apps.

Try running cp2077 with the voltage slider maxed out, and you’ll definitely see 1.1mv being used.

Hmm not sure on that since I put it back to default after.  I think it was a background thing/etc causing a conflict.  Unfortunately I don't own CP2077 so can't really test with that.

Any demanding game should do the trick then.

veganfanatic
Card should last longer but you post reeks of mining type abuse
you may need to get a larger cooler
 

"mining type abuse" THAT is hilariously ignorant and assumptious