[SOLVED] power target will not go over 104%

[krotos1970]

I tried both Asus tweek II and MSI afterburner, both top out at 104%, why? and is there a way to raise it to 130%?
It was 130% when I had the Vega 56 installed, when I replaced it with the MSI 1080 Gaming X it changed to 104%

 

[krotos1970]

Is it Nvidia's doing ?
via drivers?

 

[WildCard999]

Asus probably locked it on purpose to avoid damage, I think Nvidia caps there reference/Founders at 120%. I've heard you could flash a custom BIOS onto the card to raise the power limit but I don't know too much about it and unless the card has a dual BIOS I'd probably avoid doing so as you probably don't want to ruin the GPU for a few more FPS.

 

[krotos1970]

Asus probably locked it on purpose to avoid damage, I think Nvidia caps there reference/Founders at 120%. I've heard you could flash a custom BIOS onto the card to raise the power limit but I don't know too much about it and unless the card has a dual BIOS I'd probably avoid doing so as you probably don't want to ruin the GPU for a few more FPS.

You didn't read the whole paragraph, I said I used both MSI afterburner and Asus tweak 2, when I was using a vega 56 I could raise it to 130%, after replacing the vega 56 with the msi 1080 gaming x and replaced the amd display drivers with nvidia drivers both overclocking utilities power target changed to 104%

 

[krotos1970]

You can't damage the card by overclocking it to high, it will just not work, display drivers will lock or stop working before the gpu gets damaged, and no I will not mess the gpu bios!

 

[WildCard999]

Asus probably locked it on purpose to avoid damage, I think Nvidia caps there reference/Founders at 120%. I've heard you could flash a custom BIOS onto the card to raise the power limit but I don't know too much about it and unless the card has a dual BIOS I'd probably avoid doing so as you probably don't want to ruin the GPU for a few more FPS.

You didn't read the whole paragraph, I said I used both MSI afterburner and Asus tweak 2, when I was using a vega 56 I could raise it to 130%, after replacing the vega 56 with the msi 1080 gaming x and replaced the amd display drivers with nvidia drivers both overclocking utilities power target changed to 104%

My bad but the point still stands, MSI may of locked it at 104% and the only way for bypassing it would be a BIOS flash. You could try EVGA PrecisionX but I doubt it's going to give you different results then what you've gotten from Asus/MSI.

 

[WildCard999]

Or contact the source directly and ask them!

https://www.google.com/search?q=msi+contact&rlz=1C1NHXL_enUS802US804&oq=msi+contact&aqs=chrome..69i57.1591j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[krotos1970]

Unless it's a hardware defect, if it's a bios limitation or even driver limitation it would be B.S.!

 

[TJ Hooker]

Most likely a limitation imposed in the card's VBIOS.

 

[krotos1970]

Thanks guys
Btw I've overclocked the GPU by 180mhz stable, but if memory is overlooked more than 300mhz it fails, I can overclock the memory by 700mhz have not tried it higher, so the GPU is at 150over and stable, I believe if I can raise the power target to just 110% I could have both clocks stable at higher, but I think they did that so we would not make the 1080ti absolete.

 

[TJ Hooker]

If you're hitting the power limit it shouldn't make it unstable, it should start throttling back the frequency. And I'm not sure if power limit applies to VRAM, it may be GPU core only.