MSI Afterburner won't let me change the core voltage on my GTX 1070

[devor110]

My 1070 is a Windforce OC from Gigabyte (altough i wanted the G1 Gaming...). I can adjust the core clock and it is stable until ~+150mhz but when i tried pushing further heaven would give me weird purple graphical glitches, and crashed after a while so that implied that +160v was too much for the stock voltage and i needed to add some more, but it is greyed out and when i try to move the thing on the slider i jsut move around the whole afterburner window. This only happens in MSI Afterburner. I tried OCing in Gigabyte's software where it let me adjust core voltages, i just dislike using it because it is obnoxious and it only lets me change voltage in % (wtf), and that cannot be changed in the settings, plus the system monitor part sucks as well. I haven't tried other software, i want afterburner to work, or if there is a better alternative please inform me about it.

Visualised : https://gfycat.com/ActualFancyBandicoot

 

[krells]

You need to download the Afterburner 4.3.0 beta to control voltage on pascal cards:
https://gaming.msi.com/features/afterburner

The new nvidia cards only allow voltage adjustment as a percentage, regardless of the software used.

 

[devor110]

You need to download the Afterburner 4.3.0 beta to control voltage on pascal cards:
https://gaming.msi.com/features/afterburner

The new nvidia cards only allow voltage adjustment as a percentage, regardless of the software used.

FACEPALM Good thing i have afterburner set to 'check for update on startup' well thanks anyway

 

[devor110]

another question: what is the highest voltage % i should be giving the gpu? i'm trying to get a stable +165mhz but i went from +5% to +35% and the visual bugs are still present

 

[krells]

I have tested 100 and ran 75 for a week or so with no issues. In the end the voltage really didn't seem to help me. When I would artifact I had to reduce the clock speed and both of my cards behaved the same way. Right now my evga 1080 SC is running +84 on core clock with no added voltage. I will boost to 2068 and as temps go up I settle at 2000.

 

[devor110]

I have tested 100 and ran 75 for a week or so with no issues. In the end the voltage really didn't seem to help me. When I would artifact I had to reduce the clock speed and both of my cards behaved the same way. Right now my evga 1080 SC is running +84 on core clock with no added voltage. I will boost to 2068 and as temps go up I settle at 2000.

I've just finished OCing +170 on the core and 700 on the mem and no matter what i did to the core voltage 175 and 180 would get unstable. i'm pretty sure afterburner handles the voltage by itself and the slider doesnt mean anything

 

[krells]

I think it allows you to use up to 100% of whatever very limited range nvidia allowed for voltage increase. What are the actual boost clock speeds you are seeing under load?

 

[devor110]

I think it allows you to use up to 100% of whatever very limited range nvidia allowed for voltage increase. What are the actual boost clock speeds you are seeing under load?

While running heaven afterburner claimed it was 2075 but the highest was 2120 or smth like that

 

[DirkH]

SOLUTION: Also, Download/install MSI Afterburner 4.3.0 Beta 4. Go to Settings and check Unlock Voltage Control and Unlock Voltage Monitoring. Works for me now. Game on!!

 

[devor110]

SOLUTION: Also, Download/install MSI Afterburner 4.3.0 Beta 4. Go to Settings and check Unlock Voltage Control and Unlock Voltage Monitoring. Works for me now. Game on!!

yes you can adjust the slider but it doesnt affect the actual voltage. For example my card handles +160mhz at the stock voltage just fine, but 165 is too much so i gave it a bit more voltage, still wasnt stable and i kept on going until +45% and still no improvements so even if it does work, it might as well not