MSI 280x Voltage Adjustment

[CalVic]

Heya,

I'm unable to adjust the Voltage of my MSI 280x OC Edition card using Afterburner. I've gone into the options to tick "Unlock Voltage Adjustment" and yet it still remains greyed out on the software.

According to reviews of this card I should be able to adjust the voltage?

Anyhow, I'm running Catalyst 13.11 and Afterburner 3.0.0 BETA 17

 

[WYP]

Heya,

I'm unable to adjust the Voltage of my MSI 280x OC Edition card using Afterburner. I've gone into the options to tick "Unlock Voltage Adjustment" and yet it still remains greyed out on the software.

According to reviews of this card I should be able to adjust the voltage?

Anyhow, I'm running Catalyst 13.11 and Afterburner 3.0.0 BETA 17

that's odd, i can't change the voltage of my 7870s in afterburner either.

I use sapphire Trixx, if you can't get afterburner to work i advise giving it a go.

 

[iBeInspire]

Same with my Giga 270x, currently looking for a solution :/

 

[NeverBackDown]

Works with my 7950? Using afterburner 3 beta 17 as well.

 

[FTR.4500MHz]

Have you guys tried editing the MSIAfterburner.cfg file located in the installation directory ?

 

[CalVic]

I have not, but may take a look

I did find a post on another forum earlier that Afterbuner doesn't actually support UEFI at the moment, but will do soon. Switching to the legacy BIOS on the 280x will allow the use of voltage tweaking.

However, I'm unable to test this since I installed Windows 8 in UEFI mode

 

[Meladath]

If its the BF4 version (PCB V1.1) Then tough crap it appears. I have the same problem. My V1.0 MSI R9 280X has voltage unlocked. However my BF4 version is severely gimped (perhaps to look good for the reviews then cheap out and save some cash?)

It doesnt have VRM sensors (check hwinfo), voltage cannot be changed unless you flash the X77 BIOS on tomshardware, even then you cannot change voltage, but it appears some weird form of offset becomes available in MSI afterburner which does modify voltage (according to MSI AB & my temps drop a bit, no idea what it actually is. Most certainly not VDDC) however everything else says the card is still using 1.2V. Check my write up on the official MSI forums for more info (https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=175916.0). I have been in contact with MSI and even with the newest BIOS for the card and the newest afterburner that they have suggested (beta 18) it is still locked.

Also the metal bar that stops the card from sagging is now much shorter (not even much longer than the PCI-E slot), so my original card has almost no sag and my new one has complete sag.

Top card BF4 edition (PCB V1.1) bottom card standard (PCB V1.0)

I used to be an MSI fanboy (as you can most likely tell, hehe) but after this bull I might consider going ASUS/Sapphire next time.