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Hey guys, I'm not exactly new to overclocking, but neveder done anything more than "light" software/BIOS OC. I've got Toshiba P50-A-13C laptop with i7-4700MQ & nVidia GT 740m. It ain't much, but I feel there is more performance than it shows inside. My main focus is to overclock the hell out of that GPU, since it's seriously holding me back in games. I used NVinspector to go from 1058MHz to 1104MHz on the core, but it seems to be on the edge of stability. Attatching .xlsx file with HWinfo logs + graphs from 3DMark Skydiver benchmark. I'd be grateful for any additional info you can tell me guys. Thanks a lot :) Laptop Analysisv2.xlsx

Hey everyone . Today i changed my thermal paste on my 780 from EVGA. And i then noticed this weird discoloration. I tried wiping it off multiple times with alcohol, but it's not coming off, it clearly is a discoloration on the die. The GPU works fine though. Also, the "GK110-300-A1" text is almost gone. Any ideas ? Is it normal or will my GPU fail soon ? Have a nice day, thanks.

Hi so I am building a cheap used PC and I was wondering what would be a good price for a GTX 760 and what would be a good price for a GTX 770. The reason why I am after these older cards are because they are much cheaper than any new card today, but I was wonder how cheap do they have to be in order for it to be considered a good buy?

Hi! Please help me in my GPU BIOS edit problem. I have a NVIDIA GTX 680 2GB GPU (Kepler), and I want to upload a different BIOS to it, but before that change the "Vendor name/ID" to the current (see the attached image). How can I change the vendor from Zotac (19DA) to NVIDIA (10DE)? I tried to find the appropriate string/hex in hex editors (HxDen & WinHex), but I couldn't found it. Sadly it cant be changed with any bios editor tool as I know (I tried Kepler BIOS Tweaker (KBT), Kepler Golden BIOS Tool (KGB) and NiBiTor).

i live in iceland btw i hope im not going to get tax coz its used

Good morning everyone! I am currently running two ASUS 780 Poseidon in SLI and OC, pared with a i7 4770k and 32GB of DDR3 RAM. After the Christmas Season, i am planning to upgrade the two 780s to one 1080. I am wondering if the performance increase is noticeable, because i cant find any helpful comparison from Kepler to Pascal. Maybe i should even wait for the 1080 ti or AMD Vega ? Never the less, even if the performance increase is not that noticeable i really want to get rid of all the SLI-Problems. So i am curious what you guys (unisex) think, of what I should buy and when their could be a sweet spot in price in the early 2017? Thank you in advance for your help and your comments. Greetings from Germany, Tyrannis

So I am trying to fix some throttling issues on my laptop, and I've come to the conclusion that the GPU puts out too much heat (Dell 7537, GT750m). I wanted to undervolt or change temperature priority, but I can't change settings without them being reset instantly (nvidia inspector and afterburner). Is there any way to unlock drivers to allow this?

So I found this Tesla K40 on newegg for like $100. Are they useful for anything? Could you use them as a folding card? Its so cheap I just want it ?? https://www.newegg.com/hp-model-f1r08a/p/1DW-000D-00025?Item=9SIA5HA8JJ0069

Hey guys Just wanna start off by saying ive looked elsewhere for an answer to this question and unfortunatly none of them are even vaguely recent so i dont know how well they holdup in 2019. Anyway ive got a small lan party coming up and im taking my server pc as i really dont feel like taking my main pc the PanzerMaus. Now the server runs an i7 4770, 12gb DDR3 (obviously) and a Dell 9020 mobo in a h17 case but its the GPU that has me conflicted, my 2 most powerful spares are my 780 3gb founders and my windforce 770 4gb. Years ago the answer was easy but now with games using way more Vram im not so sure. Im starting to think the 770 4gb with a light oc may run our most intensive game better (latest Vermintide) on a 1920x1080p 60hz monitor while keeping alot cooler. What do you lot think? Cheers

Hello, A couple months back a friends GTX 760 just stopped working as a display output, and not being picked up by windows as one. Ive seen things about the 780 and 780ti having this sort of problem but I wasnt sure if the same problem happened with the lower end cards. I know JayzTwoCents did a video on this subject, and got the card working again. Jayz video:

NVIDIA plans that mobile Kepler support, to be discontinued by April this year. Do note, that this is mobile, not desktop. So, if you have a desktop Kepler graphics card, not to worry. I checked Steam Hardware survey, and that's not a whole lot of Kepler on the first 20 cards, in fact, the GTX 960/50M and GT 940M are on top of the GT 720M. NVIDIA is shifting focus on bug fixes and improvements on Maxwell cards, and newer. However, critical security updates will end next of April 2020. Moving to Nvidia 3D Vision, it will also receives the same fate. Support for Nvidia 3D Vision will no longer be available this April 2019, however, critical security updates will end next of April 2020. To be real honest, 3D Vision was expensive back in 2008-2010, even into Fermi era--in terms of the gears and performance. Not only that, support (games) for it was rather limited. You can check the list of mobile Kepler over at Nvidia's Knowledge Base Source: Hardwarezone TheInquirer Nvidia (1)(2)

I bought a GTX 670 off of ebay for 85$ 2 months ago and was wondering if I should be worried about it's age and health, especially when overclocking. Is OC'ing a stb 6 year old GPU a bad idea? The overclocks i have on it are: a 200mhz Core and Memory clock.

Why do people say that the NVIDIA Kepler cards (namely the 700 series and 780/Titan/Ti/Black) have aged poorly?

A while ago with my previous graphics card (GTX 560), I heard that the best driver for Fermi was driver 314.22. I was wondering if there was anything like that for Kepler based cards, specifically the GTX 670

I got a GTX 780 from a friend that wasn't working. I have noticed a few things on the PCB that are questionable. I will be providing pictures of the PCB as needed. I'm open to using heat guns but not ovens because I don't have access to an oven.

Hello I am trying to help out my dad trying to decide between a used GeForce GTX 660 for $103.00 ($95.00 + $13.00 shipping) on Ebay, versus a new GeForce GTX 750 Ti on Amazon for about $113.99. What should I try to push him to get? Obviously I am looking for a GeForce card, not a Radeon card as we're not in the market for such, and also power consumption and operating costs annually are just as important as trying to get the best performance

Who aged better -- Kepler or Hawaii? The two former top-end architectures from 2013 have received different treatment over the their lifespan. While Nvidia simply moved along with a new GPU architecture (Maxwell), AMD's GCN have seen much less revolutionary changes, with only iterative architectural upgrades from Tahiti to the latest HBM-powered Fiji GPUs. AMD were definitely forced to spend time with the driver optimizations instead, with some notable effects. -- TL;DR -- Source: http://www.babeltechreviews.com/nvidia-forgotten-kepler-gtx-780-ti-vs-290x-revisited/view-all/

Source: http://techfrag.com/2016/02/17/nvidia-pascal-gp100-gpu-is-a-real-monster-with-12-tflops-sp-and-4-tflops-dp/ So it seems that Pascal compute numbers have been leaked. Compared to Kepler, Pascal seems to be quite a big improvement. However, I don't think its enough. 3 times more than Kepler is definitely impressive. However, if we look at the Fury X: The Fury X has around 8.5 TFlops Single Precision and a little over 4 TFlops 800 GFlops Double Precision. EDIT: However, some FirePro versions of the 290x have around 2.5 TFlops. The Fury X The FirePro 9100 already has more than half of the Double Precision than of Pascal! And it's a card from 2 years ago. With Polaris AMD is sure to improve, and so they could still be ahead of Nvidia. Nvidia has made a huge improvement, but I don't think it is enough.

Hello, I'm no stranger when it comes to Graphics cards and their performance, but i'm not familiair with SLI configs. So can someone help me out with this? I like racing games and run a triple monitor setup, but my single card can't really handle triple monitor gaming. Rig Specs: So what should i do? Get a second 770 or get a 970 and maybe SLI that later? Feel free to teach me a thing or two about SLI if you want.

I was wondering if I should get a 780ti or a 980(ti) ?? I know that the 780ti has been killed by nvidia but the performance is close between the 980 and 780ti according to gpuboss

Hi, I was trying to install a Quadro k4000 and a Titan X on one mobo. The architecture is different for these card. The idea is to use the Quadro card as primary graphics card for rendering and remote connection as Quadro cards support OpenGL when using remote desktop connection. Problem is I don't know which driver to install or if this idea works as all... Any clues guys? Zurimonster

Title says it all, I was considering getting a second gtx 780 to sli for around 350ish AUD however I want to play the Witcher 3 at non potato frame rates and it seems Kepler is kill for that game. Is there a better solution for the same price tag (assuming I can sell the 780 at what people are asking for it)? Happy to consider red options before nvidia because the drivers for witcher have left me pretty salty. Also I have a catleap 2440x1440p ips 60hz-90hzOC monitor and I'd like to pair it up and match the oc fps.

Howdy! I've found a Refurbished EVGA superclocked GTX 660 for $115 on Newegg. I can't really decide if I want to SLI or not in my wait for Pascal and keep in mind my siblings have 8400 GS GPUs so... Birthday presents/ sales in the future? I mostly do Gaming on Indie games like Space Engineers, and Civ V, Sins of a Solar Empire, and Skyrim. Now, most of these I can get 100 FPS (though I want 144 due to my 144hz VG248QE) My need isn't all that great though, but I am capable of doing SLI with my good 600W PSU (enough) and a i7 4790K @ 4.0 Ghz + 16GB RAM. Will it help me do Autocad through the end of this year and later on as I am just starting to use it? How Solid is SLI nowadays on a modern Z97 motherboard with Windows 7? Linux? I'd love to have an ENB in Skyrim too... This would allow it to give me 60 FPS hopefully. Any input and opinion is valid. However, I do NOT want a suggestion for something other than a GTX 660 as SLI will outperform nearly everything all the way past $200... So I would be wasting money at that point. Current GPU: ASUS DCUII GTX 660 2GB Proposed: EVGA SC 660 ASUS DCUII 660 (2-way SLI 2GB) I hope I didn't confuse anybody! Thank you for your input in advance.

This simple guide originated as a stimulus for users, who asked me how OC GTX780. Questions regarding overclocking of graphics are fairly common, but basically the same principles apply. Mainly for similar architecture. And since I am now the owner not only Radeons, but also its first modern Geforce card, so I will try to accommodate this short article. We will focus on the current series of Nvidia's Kepler architecture and Maxwell. The differences between them are in the upper OC limit of the core and the difference is too little to remember. Especially at lower GPUs models. 1)What do we need know before the OC Software for overclocking of graphics card. We will use the "Asus GPU Tweak". Download it here: GPU Tweak 2.8.2 The software that will detect information about the graphics core, bus speed and temperatures like etc. But this can be despite the already mentioned GPU Tweak ... However, GPU-Z [/ u] as a detection tool I recommend (among other things through it you can save the current BIOS for backup case): http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2463/techpowerup-gpu-z-v0-8-2/ 2)First steps in GPU Tweak and how and what we can set Asus has been used for years tweak soft GPU Tweak utility. Skin can be adjusted according to your own needs, I use the default settings ... The left window covers monitoring and right portions include setting as follows ... The same applies for the setting. On the left set of monitoring - definitely check temperature (GPU temperature), Memory Clock and core (GPU and memory clock), target power and fan speed. The rest settings is at your discretion. Monitoring can also save to the log file. On the right we see several tabs settings, which can be reached with clicks to icon with sliders "tuning" in the upper left side. In the "MAIN" we can see a set of skins and what should happen after starting Windows. -update We will be interested but the second tab "TUNE" Since I have Matrix card, is it a fully unlocked menu settings. Your card it will be available to a limited extent. However, as I highlighted in yellow, it certainly recommend mark and it should be on most cards. GPU Boost - that is frequency on which card will work, and its core clock. With sufficient cooling the card will keep this cycle even longer time, or even overcome it. GPU Voltage - core clock voltage settings, overclocking capabilities of the core increases (boost clock), but also warm and can achieve faster power limit Memory Clock - frequency of memory chips at graphics card. Usually u can see effective memory clock, ie for example 7000MHz GDDR5 effectively = it is real 1750 MHz. Higher memory clocks often cause instability, which was first seen artifacts when playing or falls. Power Target - (alias Power limit = nothing will slow up or limiting the GPU card in performance, when will have a higher consumption), raising it lets''s moving "with such a voltage core graphics card (GPU Boost + GPU voltage) without causing a drop in performance or local declines shots in the game or benchmark. Feel free to start now, you can safely move on powerlimit maximum limit what you allow your setting. The remaining values in the picture, some blue, are only available for unlocked edition cards. Than you can use example memory voltage and LLC or for the VRM frequency itself. After setting it in GPU Tweak-looks something like this. We see information about the frequency, voltage, power target. My card GTX980 Matrix has a base clock 1342 MHz core, 7010 MHz effective memory-power target is essentially 100% and stock voltage for load is 1.213V. Fans spins at 32% of its maximum. 3) Default results GTX 980 Matrix Since I have use now at benchtable PC with AMD A10-7850K, the results are not completely tip top. On the other hand, the mainstream processor with GTX980 worked OK, and GTX980 results grow up... I tested for info in 3D Mark11 Extreme settings and tested the game Sniper Elite Xtreme 2 on maximum settings. 4) When even though you fear - switching profile Asus It may still happen that OC of graphics you have not balls. Asus has here two profiles. One is contrary to light saving profile called Power Saving. Just click on the letter "S" at the bottom of the profiles. A slight overclocking or vice versa called Gamer (the letter G in profiles) - overclocks decently core clock and memory boost There are results of Gamer profile: 5)Manual overclocking - How to When the overclock card, doing it in the smaller steps. First, as I said in another chapter, step up power target slider to the maximum. Start overclocking with unchanged voltage (stock). The core will usually allow about +50-150 MHz on the core, according to the type of the card (GTX600 / 700/900 series) and specific model (DirectCU vs high clocked Matrix) and according to a piece of luck. Memory usually tolerate a little more, try these steps for the first time after 50 MHz efficiently and then lower steps of 5 MHz. Always test stability first in 3D Mark and then stress test such as Furmark (enough for about 10-20 minutes Furmark) or OCCT GPU test. -stress test OCCT for GPU I got a card to 1382 MHz of Boost clock (in practice can in GPU-Z observe that practical Boost gets long and over 1440 MHz!), And 7440 MHz for the memory efficiently. And results: 6) OC With voltage increase For the most of graphics cards will be available regarding the possibility of increasing voltage just for core. Moreover, it is often the GPU Tweak-final slider and the maximum safe limit for cooling. Exceptions are again Matrix series or special tuners unlocked value to determine. Generally it can be said that in generation of Kepler and Maxwell sufficient to increase voltage by about 0.1 to 0.15V versus nominal core voltage. If you accidentally card with this setting core voltage to the maximum limit+ with higher clocks will be stable and yet the result of the 3D Mark will be lower, you have encountered power target. It will be necessary to reduce the required core voltage. Attention also put on the temperature and try to keep your temperature below 85 C under load. I increase voltage from 1.213V up to 1.256V reasonable maximum / optimum for Maxwell. Frequency of Boost core jumped guaranteed to 1412 MHz, memory clocks up to 7720 MHz effectively. At GPU-Z you can see that the maximum boost was even in practice at 1474 MHz. This figure suggests that the card is cooled with a large margin. In the game I achieved an improvement of 5.1 FPS at Xtreme setting, it is about 9% more than in the base/stock settings clocks. Mathematically we are at the core of this edition rose by 5% and memory by 10%, we can say that the very performance-jump corresponds. For less cyclical cards such as the GTX series by Strix get greater percentage difference from the default and thus higher jump in games. Article was gradually complementing the approximate value of overclocking families Kepler and Maxwell. Anyway, always proceed in small steps, all carefully and try some of the first 3D Mark and subsequently playing or OCCT test before driving again on the next MHz up .

So I'm thinking about buying the MSI GS60-2PCi78H11 for my daily driver. I know this might seem odd, but I really like the build quality of the MSI Gaming notebooks and I want a notebook, that's fast and light. Now my question: Does anybody know if it has the Maxwell GTX 860M or the Kepler? I just spend two hours googling this. I found out that the first version with the i7-4700HQ has the Kepler GPU, but I couldn't find out which one the new revision with the i7-4710HQ is using. I would use the notebook for studies at university and at home. Also I want to watch movies etc. in bed and sometimes game. Although the gaming part is not that necessary. I'm open for alternatives, but here are some features I want with my new notebook: - 15.6" Full-HD Display (would prefer an IPS-Panel) - SSD+HDD (I'm not afraid to add one of them myself) - Intel i CPU - small & light (max. 2 kg) - relatively quiet while working, don't want to stand out at university by being the guy with the annoying notebook - good build quality & aluminium case Thanks for any help!