I just purchased a GTX 760 Hawk today. I switched the BIOS to line 2, downloaded the latest Nvidia drivers, and downloaded the latest MSI afterburner beta version. I know that you can set the power limit to 185% but for me, it is stuck on 111%. I tried all of the settings, searched google, uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers and afterburner. Basically have been trying to figure this out for 4 hours and this is my last resort. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong as to why it won't let me set the power limit to 185%? I set to unlock voltage control and that works fine, but the power limit is stuck on 111%. Thanks in advance!
Help with GTX 760 Hawk
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paitjsu sadff
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hahaha yes i have the solution to this, Nvidia has built in a noob protection into the cards and unless you flash the bios on your card (wich will most likely void the warranty i'm not sure tho it would need some research on this) you will not be able to get over 111% wich is already plenty enough and should allow for the highest overclocking possible on this GPU anyway. Good luck
paitjsu sadff
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20mhz? you know with GPU boost 2.0 you don't get a ''steady'' overclock but more like an access to a higher RANGE of frequencies...that is if the card is well cooled and there is power to spare for the GPU to overclock itself...if for example in afterburner you max out both the voltage and powerlimit sliders for the card and add say a 100mhz on the core clock, then if the card is cool enough and under the maximum powerlimit set by nvidia for the chip then the card will overclock when under load to reach a 100mhz higher or so boost clock. if the card is in a great environment i see no reason why you couldnt get at least a good 100mhz more on the card over stock speed especially it being a ''hawk'' card it should be a good one...
Card never gets over 60 degrees. I use afterburner and add +20 to the core clock, +100 to the memory clock. I also max out the voltage to 12, and power limit t0 111%. Card will work until I run a game, or furmark/heaven and then it crashes after about 2 minutes. If I set it to anything higher than +20, it crashes almost instantly. When I reset everything to stock, it's fine. I have a gold standard 750 PSU, I had a 560 ti prior to this card with no problems.
paitjsu sadff
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well...the least we can say in that case is that you didn't won the silicon lotery on this one mate
aren't you still happy of the performance of the card at stock speed in games you play? if not i would return it and upgrade to a GTX 780...
Yeah, I think I will just return it. I am happy with the performance stock, but I got the Hawk edition because it's supposed to be the "best" card for overclocking. Since I can't overclock it at all it kind of ruins the point and I could have gotten a cheaper one. I think I will return it and put the extra money to a 770, a 780 is a bit out of my budget. Thanks for the help though.
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Get the MSI n770 I have it and enjoy a nice easy +75 MHz and +400 MHz memory OC and at full load it doesn't get above 72 degrees with the fan at about 70%
paitjsu sadff
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every card are different and it has nothing to do with the brand or model of the card...i squeezed an extra 250mhz from the core of my MSI GTX780 twinfrozr gaming OC but the same model of the same card on the same shelf like the next box identical right next to it maybe is not capable of even 30mhz overclocks on the core...this is called ''silicon lotery''
The same goes for CPU, RAM sticks, anything that can be overclocked...the products meats a minimum factory standard...anything above is no guaranteed and is just luck, or bad luck.,,
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