My prayers only got answered last night with this new tool compatibility with 1080 Classified.
Not had a proper chance to test it yet, nor has anybody else.
Up until now all 1080 classified owners have been stuck at 1.093v, while many other cards owners were jumping on the ASUS/T4 STRIX BIOS bandwagon (cross-flashing the ASUS BIOS to their cards to reach the 1.25v hard limit).
However Classified was one of the cards that was not 100% compatible with the cross-flash; so for a long time we've actually had LESS voltage control than many other cards that don't have "overclocking DNA in their blood" (so to speak). << a situation completely back to front.
The tool definitely does something (which has got me tremendously excited) as my power reading goes up and down in HWINFO64 as I apply different voltages) and the tool does seem to be completely overriding the default BIOS or MSI AB control.
However in the short 90 minutes I had to test last night there were a few other unpredictable results (nothing dangerous). But I'm not sure yet if this is due to GPU BOOST 3.0's ultra-dynamic (ever changing) nature.
Before I go any further I really need to verify whats being *applied* by the tool with the actual GPU vore voltage. (bear in mind I do believe the tool has been adapted from previous classified versions so things may or may not match up perfectly just yet).
I am shopping for a digital multimeter tomorrow so I can find out. Once I can properly verify whats going on I'll be able to do some proper benching etc.
But beware I don't think the gains on pascal are tremendous; however to be honest... when did we
ever HAVE to o/c? We didn't really.
What is important is we still get to tweak and play and actually really get to see what our cards can do when we push them; I'll take that to having someone
else tell me what it can do. I'd rather test myself and feel how they felt when they found out.
After all; that's what makes it fun
Back soon,
Nick
