Saturday, February 7th 2009
EVGA Makes GPU Voltage Tuner Software Official
EVGA today made its GPU Voltage Tuner (GVT) software utility official. The utility allows end-users to control the voltage of the graphics processor, a significant factor when it comes to overclocking. Within safe limits, increasing the GPU voltage facilitates higher maximum GPU core and shader clock speeds. The utility keeps in mind the majority of users that doesn't understand the specifics of voltage control, and its impact on overclocking.
Using a simple slider, the user can set the vGPU voltage from 0.82V to 1.18V and beyond, depending on the accelerator. The resolution of the scale is in milli-Volts, although the resolution of the slider may differ. Initial tests have shown even simple increases in voltages to send the maximum overclock for the core speed up by as much as 100 MHz. The initial graphics card support-base includes the GeForce GTX 260, GTX 280 and GTX 295 series accelerators by EVGA. Future releases may expand the support base. The application is available exclusively to registered users of EVGA graphics accelerators, and can be downloaded from here.
Extended graphics card support list follows.
EVGA GeForce GTX 260 series:
Using a simple slider, the user can set the vGPU voltage from 0.82V to 1.18V and beyond, depending on the accelerator. The resolution of the scale is in milli-Volts, although the resolution of the slider may differ. Initial tests have shown even simple increases in voltages to send the maximum overclock for the core speed up by as much as 100 MHz. The initial graphics card support-base includes the GeForce GTX 260, GTX 280 and GTX 295 series accelerators by EVGA. Future releases may expand the support base. The application is available exclusively to registered users of EVGA graphics accelerators, and can be downloaded from here.
EVGA GeForce GTX 260 series:
- 896-P3-1260-XX
- 896-P3-1262-XX
- 896-P3-1263-XX
- 896-P3-1264-XX
- 896-P3-1265-XX
- 896-P3-1266-XX
- 896-P3-1267-XX
- 896-P3-1268-XX
- 896-P3-1269-XX
- 896-P3-1270-XX
- 01G-P3-1280-XX
- 01G-P3-1282-XX
- 01G-P3-1284-XX
- 01G-P3-1286-XX
- 01G-P3-1289-XX
- 017-P3-1291-XX
- 017-P3-1292-XX
- 017-P3-1293-XX
77 Comments on EVGA Makes GPU Voltage Tuner Software Official
this could be because they arent supporting the 285, or because it's an XFX :)
Precision works fine though.
my friend has a 9800GTX and he wasnt happy about this.
scratch that have hosted it on my webspace for the next few hours if you want to get it.
edit* link posted to a free site below
www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=6769d815f1b952a0d2db6fb9a8902bda
NO VIRUS, you are welcome :P
I don't take any responsibility for what you do with the program, I just made it easier for you -.-
That's not cool at all tho..i hope they figure something out.
Appears I spoke too soon the patches is not posted yet just the claim, appears the modder is scared he will be sued
www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/showthread.php?t=215350&page=19
Here, let me explain, open a command prompt in your rivatuner folder, and if you have a gtx280, issue rivatuner.exe /wi3,70,15,3f you've just increased 3d vcore to 1.24v! Hope you have water cooling though....
files.filefront.com/EVGA+GPU+Voltage+Tuner+v0zip/;13233722;/fileinfo.html
Enjoy.
I did not post it at that point because I needed to make it clear to everyone that I did it for the benefit of the hardware enthusiast community. Easy soft-volts, everyone wanted it at some point. EVGA made it come true. I simply extended their tool via patching to make it work with any vendor of cards. I also changed the voltage limit to 2.00v (2000 mV) for advanced users that wish to push their cards to the absolute limit.
AgentGOD: thanks for the patch, works fine on ASUS GTX 280. Any possibility to get a version with voltage limits still in place?