Power Limit issues on GTX 780

istari675 · Oct 31, 2015

I currently am running an ASUS GTX780 DC2. Reported by GPU-Z my max power consumption is listed as 103%, and my power limit is listed at 110%. My graphics card keeps clocking down because of the power limit kicking in (I know this because of MSI Afterburner). Is the reading on GPU-Z inaccurate? I would very much prefer not to flash the BIOS so I could maintain my warranty.

gotovato · Oct 31, 2015

Have your tried prioritizing power limit over temp in after burner? That should solve that issue providing you are not thermal throttling.

istari675 · Oct 31, 2015

gotovato :

Tried with no difference. Power limit keeps toggling in MSI Afterburner and dropping the core by up to 40MHz
at a time. GPU temp is at 71c during this time and I have the temp limit set to 78c.

gotovato · Oct 31, 2015

What psu are you using? Might be the issue.

istari675 · Oct 31, 2015

gotovato :

CPU- 4790k Stock
PSU- Corsair AX 760
Mobo- Maximus Hero Vi

gotovato · Oct 31, 2015

Ok solid psu. Have you tried a clean fresh driver reinstall?

istari675 · Oct 31, 2015

gotovato :

Yeah, and this has been going on for its entire life so far (1 year), but I haven't really cared since I have only had performance issues recently.

gotovato · Oct 31, 2015

Did you manually set the power limit to 110%? If so this may just be a bios limit

istari675 · Oct 31, 2015

gotovato :

Not sure, I just set it through MSI afterburner. I think the default setting was 100%.

gotovato · Oct 31, 2015

If default is 100 then that's why. Bios limit I haven't ran a stock bios in a long time so I don't really remember if I ever had that issue but I probably did.

istari675 · Oct 31, 2015

How much of a risk is flashing the bios when it comes to warranties? If something goes wrong would it be possible to flash to stock bios so I could claim a warranty?

gotovato · Oct 31, 2015

Well I know evga covers flashed bios. Not sure about Asus. You should check. As long as you don't brick the card you'll be ok. Make sure you use the correct bios or you'll be in trouble. I've unbricked a few cards and its not easy. For warranty, you should make a backup of your stock bios so you can flash back no problem.

istari675 · Oct 31, 2015

gotovato :

Do you think there could potentially be an issue where I couldent flash back to stock bios and I had to RMA? Like something blew up on the card and I couldent even get power to it

gotovato · Oct 31, 2015

Possible. But they wouldn't beable to power it up either so you'd be ok. It's at your own risk, if you aren't willing to deal with a bricked card don't do it. The performance gain is nice though.

istari675 · Oct 31, 2015

I've flashed a gtx 660 bios without much issue. I mean if it comes to it I can just use my onboard graphics to flash a new card bios

gotovato · Oct 31, 2015

Yep. Do it of you think you can.

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