Notchy44
03GLI
Notchy44
03GLI
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I think my card is fine but I don't want to put this BIOS on it because of the plethora of issues people are having in this thread. My card easily hits its original 450W limit fine in benchmarks and heavy games and my PCI-e slot usually hovers around 77W. I would just feel better about EVGA acknowledging some of these issues and providing an new BIOS at some point soon. My card already overclocks pretty well (+140 core / +550 mem) so I really want to see what it can do with the limit raised. I suppose I couldn't hurt anything trying it but I'd rather wait for a new version.
Air cooler is not enough for 500W, you will get nothing more out of it without exotic cooling.
with the Air cooler I suggest undervolting the GPU for better Overclocks , decreased power draw, and lower temperatures.
If you don't mind me asking what is you core clock in game/benchmark while hitting 450w power draw and what is the temperature.
Not true at all... Air cooled is fine with 500w. I saw a 500 point increase with this bios when I was on air. Temps raised to 70c but well under what I was comfortable with. Will you see a much higher score on water? Yes see my post above when I went to the hybrid cooler.
hmm. I can't get temps below 75 @ 500w with fans at 100%
I get better results and higher clocks when I undervolt the GPU and limit power draw. obviously I can't achieve a maximum possible OC that way but at least the core clock does not drop due to thermals. I should probably pull the cooler and replace the TIM
Do you have bottom fans blowing cold air up into the card? Seems like that was a BIG help for me. In games at 4k I would never see above 70c at 85% fan speed. Benchmarking I had a avg of around 63c at 100% fan speed on air. Here is a link to my best air cooled vs Hybrid cooled. https://www.3dmark.com/compare/pr/754467/pr/735792
No fan on bottom, I reversed the fan on the side to push air into the case had it set as exhaust, increased the RPM on my 2 140mm intake fans in front and took the dust filter out, and increased the rpm on 140mm fans rad fans on top and the 140mm exhaust on the back. Temps dropped but not by much down to around 72c under load and 100% fan speed while pulling 500w, even with the window open and the case open next to the window I'm not seeing that much of an improvement maybe down to around 67c, going to have to pull the cooler and see ow the TIM is.
On another note I've been voltage curve overclocking and hit a sweet spot of 925MV with a constant clock of 2010mhz, and +669 memory, played RDR2 & cyberpunk for a few hours and no problems. GPU is pulling an average of 50-100w less than with the default voltage curve and temps settle at around 65c at 80% fan speed. If I could get the gpu to run a bit cooler maybe I could try for 900mv and below while trying for a constant 2010mhz clock and 1000GB/s bandwidth.
What TIM is recommended, I haven't done a cooler in a while and have no Idea what's good these days.