nibitor overvolting... how do I do it?

[hat]

This is NOT a guide... I am asking for help on how to do it as I do not know for sure
title says it all. I am slightly experianced with nibitor as I have used it to edit my stock bios to flash to higher clocks, however I want to try a little overvolting. Here's how I *think* it is done... PLEASE correct me if I am wrong.

Step 1... go to the voltage table editor and drop down to entry 4 and set it to whatever you want your new voltage to be (in my case, I am increacing from 1.1 to 1.15)

Step 2... to to the voltages tab, and from there stay in the "exact mode" tab and change the "extra" setting to your new voltage, in my case it is 1.15. In the 3D tab, change it so that it reads the new voltage as well (again 1.15).

Step 3... go to the "VID mode" tab... you see that "voltage 4" is already set to 1.15... end of story. save your changes and flash

 

[FilipM]

So we actually got bios overvolting on G92's now, great!

 

[hat]

so am I doing it right or what?? I already said this is not a guide, DO NOT GO BY IT unless you already know that I am right... and if you DO know that I am, in fact, right... tell me!

 

[FilipM]

NP mate, I was gonna think twice anyways

 

[hat]

well tell me if I have done it correctly or not... because I would like to try to reach 800MHz core

 

[FilipM]

Ugh, whats the worst that can happen, brick my card with the flash? Ive flashed a 7800GT once but that was ages ago. Not that experienced with it but still dont know what to do

 

[hat]

Am I doing this right or not? This is not a guide, this is me asking the rest of tpu to look over what I have done and tell me if I'm right or wrong... and if I am wrong... how do I correctly do it?

 

[Kursah]

That looks similar to what I did with my first GTX260 back in Summer 2008, maybe check my GTX thread OP out to compare changes you made to what I did. Pretty similar all-in-all, I'd be willing to give it a shot on that card. See if that extra .05v gives you enough to get to 800+!

Though you might want to google 9800GT bios mods and see if others have tried it...you might have already. I'm definately interested in the results.

 

[hat]

well hell I guess I'll try... if I brick my card it's back to my 8600gts

 

[sneekypeet]

Save your old bios first, specs say you have an SLI board, you could flash back using the 8600 in the top slot and flash to the second. If things go wrong that is!

 

[exodusprime1337]

so... does this work for 8800gts'??

 

[FilipM]

He's still flashing I do believe. If it works with a 9800GT, it should work with any G92 gfx i think

 

[hat]

didn't work. Either it just doesn't work period or I edited the wrong voltage identifier. my temps did not increace at all. help me out guys!

 

[FilipM]

What about the clocks could you get higher clocks stable?

 

[hat]

no. as I said, it didn't work.

 

[FilipM]

Hmm, maybe it did work, but voltage is not enough? I've seen 9800GTX's been hardvolted to like 1.3V to get more out of them

 

[Kursah]

no. as I said, it didn't work.

Double check your work in that particular ROM/BIN file, if it's reading right in Nibitor, and the checksum is ok (there's a place to test within nibitor), then you probably don't have the allowance to increase the voltage via bios and hardmodding ensues.

 

[JrRacinFan]

Double check your work in that particular ROM/BIN file, if it's reading right in Nibitor, and the checksum is ok (there's a place to test within nibitor), then you probably don't have the allowance to increase the voltage via bios and hardmodding ensues.

You are correct my friend. On anything G92, you must do a hardware voltmod. 1.1v is max the G92's can obtain via bios.

 

[hat]

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
why does Nvidia do this...

 

[JrRacinFan]

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
why does Nvidia do this...

Yeah, sorry man, I know myself I would have loved to try to push 1.2v cuz Im just barely 800c/2000s gpu stable.

 

[hat]

I did the backup bios feature with nibitor and my edited voltages are still there. so something in the card is ignoring/overriding the bios...

 

[Kursah]

I hope the hardmods aren't too bad to do on that card, my 9600GT was easy, I just complted a tiny circuit near the GPU on my 9600GT with one quick dab of solder, and voila, 1.3v and a nice OC up to 870/2175 from 800/1950 max on stock voltage, which was up from 700/1750 stock. That 9600GT had a decent zalman cooler on it from Palit, but I tossed an AC S1 on there and the turbo module (had that cooler on my 1950xtx at one point in time), dropped temps greatly (45C load from 67C load). I realise it's no 8800GT or GTS, but it's a good little card that reacted quite well to more voltage...I'm sure you would hit your goal and then some!

Best of luck to ya if you go the hardmod route, I know on g92/94 chips it pays pretty well with a bump to 1.3v on most cards.

 

[sneekypeet]

My 9800GTX reads 1.15V to the core, but as discussed already passed that requires a pot mod. I asked largon a while back about a pencilmod and its just a no go on the 98's. with that voltage the GTX could run over 800MHz core.

 

[hat]

yeah well I'm not doing my first solder job my my 9800gt... funk that

 

[sneekypeet]

have you tried to set it to 1.15V and see if it takes? or is that where it sits now? Mine wasnt modded it was factory set from Zotac at that voltage.