kimir wrote:
Yeah, with MSI product use afterburner and with Asus product, use GPUTweak!
With my Matrix cards, I need GPUTweak if I want to use custom fan profile, in Afterburner they are not even recognized.
I hacked my evga gtx 480s' ( tri sli ) for overvoltage. When Battlefield 3 first came out and I was trying to play NV surround multimonitor resolutions and 3d.
With only 1.5 gigs of memory on the 480s'...
overclock my memory so I could get the data in and out of the maxed gBuffer quicker worked...
But I had no clue what voltages to use for the core clocks I was trying ( around 925MHz .
I found GPU Tweak "Automatically" adjusted a suggested voltage for the clocks I was setting. And for a ball park figure...
I found that GPU Tweak was usually within range after increasing/decreasing from that starting point.
But that was version 1.0.
The voltage automation seemed to work great for my EVGA cards but GPUTweak no longer supports auto voltage suggestions on 3rd party cards ( I call it suggestion cuz I only used the feature as a starting point ).
If I remember right... GPU Tweak no longer "explicitly" supports any Nvidia card unless it is 500 series or above...
😞I do not know what the harm would be to support reference cards ( as far as I know Asus releases generic nvidia cards like everyone else... ) I do not see why, there should be any difficulty supporting reference designs.
MSI afterburner seems to have a stability advantage for now.
But GPUTweak and the evolving ROG software seems to point to a nice concentration...
If they keep it up, I will probably be doing some Asus bios research in the near future.
( Nothing seem worth the increment lately. Considering the base $3000 it takes to revolutionize the experience! depends how long Haswell and Maxwell take... Otherwise I would have to keeps thousands of dollars in the bank and this hardware would have to last. )
I would be interested in hearing success and horror stories when flasing for an ASUS NV GPU BIOS?
I have one Galaxy posing with my EVGAs' and at a higher voltage at that. ( for the last year without issue )
According to Jacob @ EVGA... Warranty's will be honored if you can git the original bios back on the card for RMA.
But even if I could not repair a BIOS on a fragged card, The 480's seem to be built like tanks and they are appearing everywhere now ( probably even more so after todays 690 announcement )