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I recently purchased two ASUS GTX 1080 Strix Advanced GPU’s. I flashed them with the Strix OC bios to remove the TDP limit. I’m trying to get the most juice out of these baby’s and since im running a custom loop i’m not limited by temperature so I would like to test out what higher voltage can do.

However i notice that changing the voltage percentage in afterburner does not have any affect on avtual voltage output according to the afteruburner OSD.
Whenever I fire up furmark to stresstest, setting 0% or 100% voltage offset makes no diffrence.

Another thing i notice is that both cards are running at the exact same frequency but one card is running at 1.075v and the other at 1.025v.

Why is there a 50mv difference? Both cards run at the exact same speed? And why does tempering with voltage offset does nothing? I’m not limited by temps nor power draw so I should be able to bump up that voltage godda**it.

Any idea’s? Thank you!

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Did you find an answer… Same question here (I don’t understand every single option… yet. ☺)

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Try using GPU-Z to read the ASIC quality value. I have two cards with very different quality values (60 and 80) — and I often notice a small voltage difference for the same clock speed.

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GPU-Z says hte ASIC quality fu,ction is not supported for my GPU.

So yeah perhaps one card has a lower ASIC quality than the other. That would explain why one card runs at 50mv higher but that still doens’t explain why i can’t bump up the voltage using tools like MSI afterburner or EVGA prescision.

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GPU-Z says mine are both 100%. Afterburner and evga one don’t change the voltage at all. I know its hard locked but thought I could top it out. But I could be doing something wrong

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Voltage slider doesn’t do anything for me on my 1070 Strix OC.

Highest possible OC (2112 boost) is stable at +0%. +100 doesn’t offer even 12 mhz in boost stability.

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Originally Posted by vloeibaarglas

Voltage slider doesn’t do anything for me on my 1070 Strix OC.

Highest possible OC (2112 boost) is stable at +0%. +100 doesn’t offer even 12 mhz in boost stability.

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I think you need the beta version of afterburner for it to work correctly with the strix, from what I was told. Personally I just use there gpu tweak set a profile and forget it.

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Whenever I fire up furmark to stresstest

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That’s your problem right there, don’t use furmark.

Unigine heaven 4.0 is a decent place to start.

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Originally Posted by Nightingale

I think you need the beta version of afterburner for it to work correctly with the strix, from what I was told. Personally I just use there gpu tweak set a profile and forget it.

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I am using the latest beta. Also tried wih evga precision and with asus gpu tweak 2.0 software. Changing voltage has no effect.

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Originally Posted by Berke53

I am using the latest beta. Also tried wih evga precision and with asus gpu tweak 2.0 software. Changing voltage has no effect.

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Ahhh I know what the problem is.

Go into your Asus GPU tweak. Upper right hand corner you see a gear Icon, click that (it’s your advance options menu)

Check the box as indicated in the screenshot above.

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Thanks for your imput however enabling these options doens’t have any affect. Same voltages as before.I think all this does is extend the range of the freq/voltage table for people who wich to go NL2.

I flashed a newer version of the strix OC VBIOS to see if the issue is persist and yes ofc it does.. Damn you GPU boost 3.0 piece of *****.

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Originally Posted by Berke53

Thanks for your imput however enabling these options doens’t have any affect. Same voltages as before.I think all this does is extend the range of the freq/voltage table for people who wich to go NL2.

I flashed a newer version of the strix OC VBIOS to see if the issue is persist and yes ofc it does.. Damn you GPU boost 3.0 piece of *****.

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I am confused are you saying you that you have the option to move the voltage slider up, but it ends up having no effect when reading the output through the monitor.

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Only way I have found to be able to adjust voltage above 1. 089 on the modded strix bios is with precision xoc by using the gpu boost 3.0 curve adjustment on the manual setting only set the one cell at the max clock and voltage you want.

Now the bigger issue that I cant figure out is the no matter what anything over 2190 clock speed doesnt net any higher 3dmark score and is useually lower, I have gone all the way to 2320 and still scores lower ***…

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Originally Posted by Nightingale

I am confused are you saying you that you have the option to move the voltage slider up, but it ends up having no effect when reading the output through the monitor.

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That is exacly what i’m saying. Moving the voltage percentage slider or setting up a custom voltage curbe has no affct on voltage according to various monitoring apps. At full load the voltage is always locked at 1075mv for one gpu and 1025mv for the other.

I can’t bump up the voltage using any software.

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Originally Posted by T884G63

Only way I have found to be able to adjust voltage above 1.089 on the modded strix bios is with precision xoc by using the gpu boost 3.0 curve adjustment on the manual setting only set the one cell at the max clock and voltage you want.

Now the bigger issue that I cant figure out is the no matter what anything over 2190 clock speed doesnt net any higher 3dmark score and is useually lower, I have gone all the way to 2320 and still scores lower ***…

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Originally Posted by T884G63

Only way I have found to be able to adjust voltage above 1.089 on the modded strix bios is with precision xoc by using the gpu boost 3.0 curve adjustment on the manual setting only set the one cell at the max clock and voltage you want.

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Setting a custom curve didn’t work for me. Tried is with afterburner, evga precision and asus gpu tweak II.

Lower scores on a higher clock? That is weired. But i meant i heard about something like this in another thread. There are 2 versions of the xoc vbios. I think flashing to the latest T4 Vbios was the fix for people. Check in GPU-z if you have this bios version: 84.04.17.00.76.

If not I attached it for you

strix1080xoc_t4.zip 149k .zip file

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Did you try putting in only one cell on the custom curve at desired max clock and voltage in precision xoc?
For me it would only work when I did it with a single cell adjustment point like in the picture and only in
precision xoc not in any other tweaking app, was able to hit the nvidia coded limit at 1.24

Thanks I’ll have to switch bios’s later and check pretty sure it was one ending in f8 though.

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