Ilan Yakov

SS750HT. The cable was burnt. The PSU cable that is connected to the 24pins on the motherborad. As far as I can tell, the motherboard was not damaged. This is not a modular PSU. Once again, should a 750W PSU be enough for such usage?

Hi, Today my computer surprisingly powered off with no strange signs. I powered it on and there was no display output and not even light on the Corsair AIO. I realized something has probably happened to the PSU so I unplugged the 24pins connector and found 2 burnt pins, including the plastic around them. Now, a very important thing I should mention is that I was mining with both of my GTX 1080 and my RX 580. With the GTX 1080 utilizing about 70% of its power. I had a Seasonic Silver 750W and was thinking, is this not enough for such use? Will another 750W PSU do fine? and if so, will any 750W PSU will do? Thanks.

Have you tried using another TV or (even more preferable) a monitor?

Thank you for the answer. The problem is that I have no idea where can I find another BIOS like this one that I already have (which is a very good one in terms of mining) that will have the same performance. I have PolarisBiosEditor but I can find nothing that is related to "75C" which is the TEMP LIMIT as shown in MSI AFTERBURNER.

I believe a constant temp of less than 80C is okay. It's already pretty low. Core clock is 1365MHz at 1025mV. The model is MSI ARMOR RX580 4GB. Tweaked the BIOS. I already did... I am dual-mining. Probably should have mentioned that. ETH+SIA. I need the higher core clock for the SIA coin. Got to 1365MHz from 1150MHz and got from 700 to 810Mh/s. Once again guys, the question is: is there a way to set a higher limit of say, 80C? Is that possible?

Hi, I am mining with my RX 580 and its low temp limit makes it throttle dramatically when reaching 74~75C. Is there any way to set a higher limit? Even using BIOS edits? Anything? Thanks.

In addition to what they said ^^ I'd probably buy a better CPU cooler.

i5 7700? Is that a thing? lol. I meant the i7 7700.

You can get a 7700K for 315$ or, because of this MOBO, a 7700 for about 300$. Mine gets to about 30~50% usage while playing PUBG (I think) but definitely not bottlenecking my GTX1080.

The GT630 will give you shit performance even for this kind of games, from experience... Try getting something a little stronger. 8GB of RAM is the standard today so don't build the PC with 4 unless you really have to. The SATA II HDD should be okay, though really slow compared to today's standards. One last thing, with this Pentium, FPS in LOL while 'teamfighting' (and probably in other games) will go below 60 FPS even with a good GPU.

That's sweet but how stable is it? The core clock is not going down? Unfortunately, with my WATERFORCE on sock voltage I can't get any higher than 2152 without stabilization issues so how actually low I need to get my 1080 to run at? less than 50 during load? 40? that's crazy. One more thing, just something I read in a thread I found on Google.. Is that true that if I set the fan to 100% it will help somehow with keeping a stable higher clock speed?

Also, I didn't get a full answer for this question. Will flashing an Asus' 1080 BIOS on a GIGABYTE 1080 necessarily brick the GPU?

I agree, it is pretty fast but it's just interesting to me how far I can get even beyond. Since not a lot of people actually tried a more 'extreme' OC on their 1080, there's not much info about it, and info about OCing a 1080 is exactly what I'm trying to get. I really would like to know how much better will it be running on 2.2GHz rather than 2.1. Not necessarily to try by myself but just to learn.

I got mine to +100/+450 and I reach 2114~2152MHz/5562MHz but if my GPU is cool enough then why not?

I started researching about the 1080's limits and from what I can understand, the card is limited to about 1.09V. With this voltage I can reach a stable (though not fixed because it goes down after a while) 2.15GHz. I have found a special BIOS which will actually allow the card using more than 1.09V. So, If I try to flash an Asus' STRIX OC BIOS (which is the modded BIOS) to my GIGABYTE card, is there a possibility of 'bricking' the GPU? I understand that with more voltage (like about 1.2) I will be able to reach higher core clock speeds and more stably. I currently have the GTX 1080 WATERFORCE but I see that most of the people which actually use this BIOS are cooling their cards with these insane methods (because ambient temps are not enough or something like that) so will I actually benefit from it? and if I will then will it be worth it?

Have you tried contacting GIGABYTE? I mean, if their software actually lets you download this BIOS and this is what happened, then they have to help somehow I guess.

Don't really think you should use it like this. It could die very soon. If you have any important data on it you should just back it up right now when you still can.

I am currently mining ETH+DCRED using Claymore. Speeds are 29.7Mh/s(Ethereum) and 890Mh/s(Decred) (after tweaking the bios and OCing). I was thinking if I should mine with it BTC instead but then I am losing the advantage of dual-mining. Until today, I was actually mining ETH+DECRED on both cards but since today, I'm mining BTC (Nicehash) with my GTX1080 (and keep mining ETH+DECRED on my 580) and can't figure if I can do any better with my rig... Is this the best way? The 1080 I already had but I bought the 580 exclusively for mining, to mine together with my 1080. Any suggestions for even a better way? or this is the best I can get? Thanks.

After disabling HW acceleration, Chrome works way smoother and not only while watching YouTube videos but even while just surfing! Thanks!

Makes sense.. but I don't know. Isn't there a final absolute answer to this?

The thing is that as I already mentioned, I can barely see any, like about every 5 minutes and only a tiny pixel. Again, if I notice at all. I'm actually just curious about it, generally. So, in conclusion, the only thing artifacts mean is instability? No damage at all? I guess it is important so no, I did not change any voltage setting or tweaked my BIOS. Only the MEM clock speed.

So disabling HW acceleration might fix the artifacts while watching YouTube and mining? Well okay, but why should I actually? Possible instability? I mean, if it is not damaging the GPU then why not leave it like this for mining?

I started mining Ethereum a while ago with my 1080 and I noticed that when I add +900MHz (5508MHz) to the MEM clock speed (while mining of course), it is stable and I see no artifacts no matter what. When I add +950MHz, 50MHz more, (5562MHz) which actually adds an extra MH/s, only when I watch youtube videos while mining, I can see artifacts and still, barely if at all. So.. do graphic artifacts necessarily mean that my GPU is being damaged by the high clock speed? Does the amount of artifacts matter or say anything about the "amount of damage"? Thanks. (If you cannot understand why I add so much to the Memory clock and the speed still stays relatively low,, it's because while mining, Pascal GPUs will downclock the MEM speed by -500MHz.)

Try re-applying the thermal paste. If eventually you do replace your cooler, if there's enough room in your case then I would get the Noctua NH-D15 or the NH-D15s. Ugly and uncomfortable but excellent performance.

This used to work and is not working for me anymore as well. Anyway, I don't really think you can go beyond +1000MHz on the mem speed. I noticed that while mining on my GTX 1080, the MEM speed goes down by 500MHz so if you will use this profile of +1000MHz while not mining, your PC would probably just crash. I am using +950MHz while mining. I think that mining automatically downclocks the MEM speed only for Pascal cards. Bottom line. Once again, I don't think that it is possible going beyond +1000MHz at all, at least on MSI Afterburner. IMO.