1080 Ti And Voltage ?

[Dicehunter]

I was watching a video with Tom Peterson from Nvidia not long ago on PCPER's YouTube channel and he said voltage outside of what is set out of the box can have a drastic effect on the lifespan of the card, Bringing the lifespan from just say 10+ years down to 1 year.

Is this the reason MSI Afterburner has no voltage control for 1080 Ti cards out of the box ?

 

[evilcorp]

I was watching a video with Tom Peterson from Nvidia not long ago on PCPER's YouTube channel and he said voltage outside of what is set out of the box can have a drastic effect on the lifespan of the card, Bringing the lifespan from just say 10+ years down to 1 year.

Is this the reason MSI Afterburner has no voltage control for 1080 Ti cards out of the box ?

When i last checked the current stable version of MSI afterburner doesnt have voltage enabled. There is a beta that has the voltage control enabled. I got it from here

http://office.guru3d.com/afterburner/MSIAfterburnerSetup440Beta6.rar

Most software utilities work within the cards expected range of power delivery the only exception i can think of is the Kingpin cards which allow much higher voltage than nvidia specs on the LN2 bios. Theres probably other cards too.

 

[Warchild]

I was watching a video with Tom Peterson from Nvidia not long ago on PCPER's YouTube channel and he said voltage outside of what is set out of the box can have a drastic effect on the lifespan of the card, Bringing the lifespan from just say 10+ years down to 1 year.

Is this the reason MSI Afterburner has no voltage control for 1080 Ti cards out of the box ?

Good info thanks. Makes me glad I couldnt seem to be able to crank up the voltage, but I guess there is merit to this fact. Quite shocked it drops it to one year though. Maybe Kapstaad can share his input on it.

 

[evilcorp]

Good info thanks. Makes me glad I couldnt seem to be able to crank up the voltage, but I guess there is merit to this fact. Quite shocked it drops it to one year though. Maybe Kapstaad can share his input on it.

Is cranking up the voltage worth it with Pascal with GPU boost 3.0? I have had 5 different Pascal cards and voltage scaling with frequency in most cases didnt improve the core clocks by very much. In alot of cases it actually made the cards unstable. I have raised the power targets and left the voltage offset alone on most cards because it made very little difference on air. On my current strix card im getting 2000-2038 with no voltage increase. It can make 2100mhz with fan at 100% and no voltage offset and 400+ on ram. It has very little headroom for overclocking

 

[Korreborg]

It has very little headroom for overclocking

So 32% isn't good???

 

[evilcorp]

So 32% isn't good???

I wasnt complaining. 32% is great. The fact that it has little overclocking headroom shows that GPU boost now does a really good job with a great cooler. I will always try and push a card a little further and see how far it can go.

 

[Warchild]

Is cranking up the voltage worth it with Pascal with GPU boost 3.0? I have had 5 different Pascal cards and voltage scaling with frequency in most cases didnt improve the core clocks by very much. In alot of cases it actually made the cards unstable. I have raised the power targets and left the voltage offset alone on most cards because it made very little difference on air. On my current strix card im getting 2000-2038 with no voltage increase. It can make 2100mhz with fan at 100% and no voltage offset and 400+ on ram. It has very little headroom for overclocking

Well I was once in the enthusiast group before I started being more sensible with my money.

During that time, if I could get an extra 100mhz out of the card, I would have maxed the voltage as much as possible without a care of the cards time to live. Always ran SLI/CF, I was upgrading every year to the flagship models from nvidia or AMD anyway.

So yeah, I agree, these days not worth it from my POV but for some the incentive to get the most out of your card is there still.

Still hooked on watercooling like a boss though... hey baby steps right?

 

[tinytomlogan]

Ive been saying in vids for a long time not to touch volts and just use the power %

In the stuff Ive had here volts have caused more issues than they have solved too

 

[evilcorp]

Ive been saying in vids for a long time not to touch volts and just use the power %

In the stuff Ive had here volts have caused more issues than they have solved too

I took your advice and saved myself a lot of hassle. Plus the extra voltage and heat when I could get the card stable wasnt worth the extra couple of fps.

Warchild the water cooling bug never ends. I remember hunting down aquarium parts when you couldn't buy them off the shelf years ago and now have just received the block for my 1080 ti