Increasing 970 voltage doesn't affect temperature or stability? (MSI AfterBurner) OC Help!

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Barney6262

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Hi,
I have been using MSI afterburner to overclock my gigabyte GTX 970 G1 gaming.
So far, I have achieved a seemingly stable:

Core clock: +180
Mem clock: Havent OC'ed yet
Power limit: 112% (Maxed out in MSI AB)
Core Voltage: +87 (Also Maxed out in MSI AB)

When I try to push it to +190 I get a driver crash. I would like to up the voltage more. The temp difference between +0 Mv and +87 Mv is 2 degrees? Card consistently sits at 62 celcius.

So, is there a way to up the voltage and use the additional temperature headroom to increase the OC some more?

Thanks.
 
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Barney6262

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Boost of 1509Mhz

Some people say the only way of bypassing this limit is by ripping off some of the components on the actual card.
That seems a bit extreme for an extra few fps.

I was hoping for a decent increase in fps (in games) by overclocking this card, but it seems I may be disappointed....
 
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mcnumpty23

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yeah--its a shame they were so conservative with the voltage on the gtx970 unlike some earlier cards



 
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Barney6262

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For anyone with the same problem, I ended up flashing a new BIOS onto my GPU to increase the power limit, My actual gain wasn't a lot and really it just bought more stability to my current setting (I still have a terrible card for OC'ing, you may have better luck).

The bios also came with a custom fan code so that the fans can be turned off like on the MSI card.
 
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