ASUS Strix GTX980 OC/overvolt in MSI Afterburner?

[RejZoR]

Anyone happens to own ASUS Strix GTX 980 OC here? Can you tell me first hand if it can be overclocked while overvolting using MSI Afterburner or do I strictly need to use ASUS's own GPU Tweak tool for overvolting?

ASUS supposedly uses their own brand (at least they are branded as ASUS) voltage controllers and and I'm wondering if that creates any limitations. I prefer ASUS Strix over MSI Gaming model, but would really like to have the overvolting option available outside of their tools, because ASUS tends to stop updating them after a year or two and that sucks. MSI Afteburner is constantly updated...

 

[basco]

should be no prob-i think asus is using a chl-voltcontroller.
but limits more like other brands-i think 1,212volt.

good place to look up : http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=399542

 

[R-T-B]

You are probably going to bump up against the good ol' artificial TDP limit at some point. It's there both for safety and for ensuring the card stays cool and quiet at the expense of overclocking. I sent you a PM with some details. I can't really ever ADVISE bios editing, but I'm willing to help if you ever hit a wall you can't seem to get past. Mind you tweaks to those limits will necessitate fan ramp speed increases, likely.

Voltage by the way, is one thing you can tweak very easily bios side (albeit not for ram).

 

[mobiuus]

i don't wanna hijack the thread but i gotta ask a question:
if we edit in bios gpu voltage(i mean increase it a bit) is there a way to use that increased/max voltage in windows with msi afterburner or will geforce drivers use their max defined voltage?
i only know about softmodding msi but that disables power saving functions....

 

[RejZoR]

Usually you can only loosen up the protection limits so you can then overclock it easier with MSI Afterburner. By increasing only the limits you're not overclocking it yet until you actually do that with the program. So that is somewhat safer in general. You still have to know which limits you can increase, so it won't overvolt itself to infinity when it will want to boost using its own NVIDIA Boost logic...

 

[R-T-B]

i don't wanna hijack the thread but i gotta ask a question:
if we edit in bios gpu voltage(i mean increase it a bit) is there a way to use that increased/max voltage in windows with msi afterburner or will geforce drivers use their max defined voltage?
i only know about softmodding msi but that disables power saving functions....

The bios hacking way of setting a voltage usually results in an inability to use software control on the voltage... at least from what I read.

It's far easier to not mess with that though and just lift the TDP limit a bit and then raise voltage in afterburner. That works fine.