Just finished my build
86.04.60.00.80 sh@t...... guess it's OC time

Once again I repeat - to edit the bios 10 minutes in time. Can EVGA not make more aggressive BIOSes and upload them for download? Is it that difficult? And that's it! Why should I use this buggy PXOC ??? I need a cold card that will not warm everything around because the talentless engineers sewn up such an algorithm of the fan operation there. What washed away in all these sensors and other "whistles-tricks", if the card heats up to 75+ degrees?

Keyko
Once again I repeat - to edit the bios 10 minutes in time. Can EVGA not make more aggressive BIOSes and upload them for download? Is it that difficult? And that's it! Why should I use this buggy PXOC ??? I need a cold card that will not warm everything around because the talentless engineers sewn up such an algorithm of the fan operation there. What washed away in all these sensors and other "whistles-tricks", if the card heats up to 75+ degrees?

Is it also that difficult to just lock your fans at 70 percent speed and watch your temps max around 50-60 celsius?

fetterEselIs it also that difficult to just lock your fans at 70 percent speed and watch your temps max around 50-60 celsius?

Why do I need 70%? I need silence with simple tasks (movies / old games) and that the card does not overheat when I play heavy games.

Keyko

fetterEselIs it also that difficult to just lock your fans at 70 percent speed and watch your temps max around 50-60 celsius?

Why do I need 70%? I need silence with simple tasks (movies / old games) and that the card does not overheat when I play heavy games.

Then you bought the wrong card if you wanted silent and cool in one package. It’s either silent and hot or noisy and cool no in between.

Why are you writing nonsense? You just need to make a more aggressive algorithm of coolers after 55+ degrees. And it will be quiet and cold.

Keyko
Why are you writing nonsense? You just need to make a more aggressive algorithm of coolers after 55+ degrees. And it will be quiet and cold.

No because then it’d be the opposite of what you want. A more aggressive fan curve would be loud and cool. You want quiet and hot so that’s the current bios you got. And nonsense? Bud, your the one speaking nonsense. There’s no such thing as quiet and cool on a gaming video card that’s overclocked and drawing lots of heat as it is. The one writing nonsense here is you. Install precision xoc and make your own fan curve.

fetterEsel
 The one writing nonsense here is you. Install precision xoc and make your own fan curve.

 
The whole forum is filled with complaints about this crooked and lagging crap. What's the problem I do not understand to put EVGA bios with more aggressive fan operation at temperatures above 55-60 degrees?
 

Keyko

fetterEsel
The one writing nonsense here is you. Install precision xoc and make your own fan curve.

 
The whole forum is filled with complaints about this crooked and lagging crap. What's the problem I do not understand to put EVGA bios with more aggressive fan operation at temperatures above 55-60 degrees?
 

EVGA said no already. NVIDIA doesn’t allow it. Want me to write it on a paper in bold letters and spell it out for you as well?

And precision xoc does not lag for me one bit either. If you don’t like xoc use msi afterburner to adjust your fan speed. Just because you read someone had an issue with xoc doesn’t mean it’ll be true for you.

Hi everyone,
 
I've received my GTX 1080 FTW2 GAMING P/N 08G-P4-6686-KR and as many of you it is equipped with the latest BIOS version 86.04.60.00.80 / 86.04.60.01.80 (master / slave). So the max memory speed is set by default at 10 GHz effective (1251 MHz in GPU-Z). I've checked the manufacturing date with the S/N and it appears my card was made in November 2017, quite recently.
 
Don't give up if you purchased such an FTW2 card from new stocks: there is a SOLUTION for updating the BIOS to unlock 11 GHz memory hard-coded! See below my GPU-Z screenshots before and after the update:
 

 
Download the updated BIOS and NVFlash from TechPowerUp website: (don't pay attention to the default card picture which is not matching the FTW2)

• EVGA GTX 1080 FTW2 11 GHz master/primary BIOS 86.04.60.00.81 [www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/198855]
• EVGA GTX 1080 FTW2 11 GHz slave/secondary BIOS 86.04.60.01.81 [www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/198856]
• Latest version of NVFlash [www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-nvflash]

 
You can simply use NVFlash in Command Prompt as Admin with the following commands: (64bit system for me)

• nvflash64 --save <filename.rom>  to backup your card original BIOS in .ROM format (you can do so quite easily with GPU-Z as well)
• nvflash64 --version <filename.rom>  to check both your original BIOS 86.04.60.0*.80 and the updated BIOS 86.04.60.0*.81 have the same "Board ID" and "Subsystem ID" so it is safe to use
• nvflash64 <filename.rom>  to flash your card BIOS to the newer version, or restore the original

 
Now don't forget to disable your "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080" in the Device Manager, uninstall the drivers, reboot computer, reinstall the drivers and voilà: enjoy max memory speed at 11 GHz effective (1376 MHz in GPU-Z)
 
Remark 1:
As you may have seen in my GPU-Z screenshots, I'm using the slave/secondary BIOS. I want to take credit of the more aggressive fan curves of this BIOS for better cooling performance. The reason I noticed different maximum temperatures reached by the card when benchmarking at full load (with untouched default fan curves):
- Original master BIOS 86.04.60.00.80 (10 GHz) GPU stabilizing at ~70°C
- Original slave BIOS 86.04.60.01.80 (10 GHz) GPU stabilizing at ~60°C
- Updated slave BIOS 86.04.60.01.81 (11 GHz) GPU stabilizing at ~65°C
Of course this is just a hint, not an exhaustive test campaign, but my room temperature was roughly the same at +/- 1°C and I found the trend clear enough. I assume that the 11 GHz memory update remains overclocking, thus dissipating more heat, as for any GTX 1080 card (opposed to the GTX 1080 Ti with memory chips made for that speed). Then it should be treated as deserved: with proper cooling. So be careful and test your card in severe benchmarking after the BIOS update to confirm its stability!
 
Remark 2:
Prior to achieve the above steps, I've been trying for hours and hours to update my BIOS but every time it was not successful! Either the memory was recognized as "Unknown" and stuck at 405 MHz, or some other BIOS at 11 GHz such as 86.04.66.0*.8* were not compatible for flashing my FTW2 card in NVFlash throwing "Board ID mismatch" error impossible to override.
Finally the BIOS versions 86.04.3B.40.81 / 86.04.3B.41.81 provided in post #1 are definitely older revisions for former card stocks! So I guess EVGA should update this post with the appropriate files for every BIOS revision now available on these compatible cards...