Increase the GPU voltage can damage the GPU

[trollgame937]

Hi all,

I want to oc my GTX 1070 G1 and i'm following a guide (https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/gigabyte-geforce-gtx-1070-g1-gaming-review,29.html), now i have to increase the voltage (i never used this parameter before). Can i damage my gpu by increasing the voltage?

 

 

 

[Jurrunio]

Not without hacked software or hardware mods.

[Daniel644]

you CAN'T increase the Voltage on a Pascal GPU (the Core Voltage line is greyed out and not adjustable) without having access to the hardware necessary to flash a BIOS which is not available to consumers, the only way a consumer can screw with voltages is through the use of a "Shunt Mod" which involves using liquid metal thermal compound to short and alter the resistance of key resistors on the board.
 

 

The POWER LIMIT setting (while it does play with the voltage to some extent) is the one you can adjust, but Nvidia has the cap on it set to where it can't do any harm unless you just have piss poor cooling and even then it will simply throttle the clocks to lower the temp. You aren't gonna hurt anything trying to find what your stable overclock is on Pascal as it's Impossible to adjust any sliders in a way that they could damage the card in the way you are thinking, the worst thing that will happen is you push the Core or Memory to far and it causes the driver to crash and you have to reboot. I have many hours in fine tuning my GPU overclocks and have never hurt any of them from playing with the unlocked sliders on a Pascal card.

[trollgame937]

2 hours ago, Daniel644 said:

you CAN'T increase the Voltage on a Pascal GPU (the Core Voltage line is greyed out and not adjustable) without having access to the hardware necessary to flash a BIOS which is not available to consumers, the only way a consumer can screw with voltages is through the use of a "Shunt Mod" which involves using liquid metal thermal compound to short and alter the resistance of key resistors on the board.
 

 

The POWER LIMIT setting (while it does play with the voltage to some extent) is the one you can adjust, but Nvidia has the cap on it set to where it can't do any harm unless you just have piss poor cooling and even then it will simply throttle the clocks to lower the temp. You aren't gonna hurt anything trying to find what your stable overclock is on Pascal as it's Impossible to adjust any sliders in a way that they could damage the card in the way you are thinking, the worst thing that will happen is you push the Core or Memory to far and it causes the driver to crash and you have to reboot. I have many hours in fine tuning my GPU overclocks and have never hurt any of them from playing with the unlocked sliders on a Pascal card.

So why in the aorus engine i can modify the voltage? I haven't flashed any modified bios or opened the gpu

[SOLO_AVENGER]

58 minutes ago, trollgame937 said:

So why in the aorus engine i can modify the voltage? I haven't flashed any modified bios or opened the gpu

Yes you can change the voltage, whether it will do any damage depends on how much you change it by. Obviously each gpu is different so there are no guarantees that a small voltage increase won't damage your gpu. What are you hoping to achieve by inceasing your voltage?

[Mick Naughty]

Max it out on all my cards. Kepler and pascal. Never had an issue and don’t see it ever being a problem. 

[trollgame937]

5 hours ago, SOLO_AVENGER said:

Yes you can change the voltage, whether it will do any damage depends on how much you change it by. Obviously each gpu is different so there are no guarantees that a small voltage increase won't damage your gpu. What are you hoping to achieve by inceasing your voltage?

I don't know why but my GPU crash at factory clock on some games and with the aorus oc profile i have crashes in almost all games. Only thing that work is lowering by 20mhz the gpu clock.

[SOLO_AVENGER]

What temperatures are you getting and at what clock speed does it crash when leaving everything at stock?

[trollgame937]

7 hours ago, SOLO_AVENGER said:

soWhat temperatures are you getting and at what clock speed does it crash when leaving everything at stock?

When i'm in game the clock is between 1920 mhz and 1960 mhz, the temps are fine (65°C/70°C). I don't know why but in the aorus engine the gpu boost clock is 1785 mhz, so why i'm reaching 1960 mhz?

[SOLO_AVENGER]

it's because of gpu boost which is normal, but you gpu shouldn't crash at stock. Have you tried reinstalling the drivers using ddu to remove the old drivers?

[trollgame937]

7 hours ago, SOLO_AVENGER said:

it's because of gpu boost which is normal, but you gpu shouldn't crash at stock. Have you tried reinstalling the drivers using ddu to remove the old drivers?

Yes, I've tied DDU but didn't work, the last nvidia driver helped me a lot because now the majority of games are crashing less (or not crashing at all) but some games like apex legends and fortnite still crash 

[SOLO_AVENGER]

what does it say when the game crashes, have you checked event viewer? Also what are your other system specs?

[trollgame937]

19 hours ago, SOLO_AVENGER said:

what does it say when the game crashes, have you checked event viewer? Also what are your other system specs?

There aren't error when the games crash, except for apex that say to me: "dxgi_error_device_hung". In the event viewer there is the error "nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered"

[SOLO_AVENGER]

What are your computer specs and have you always had this issue?

[trollgame937]

12 hours ago, SOLO_AVENGER said:

What are your computer specs and have you always had this issue?

- i5 8600k

- z370 pro4

- 16GB ram

- Corsair TX550m

and yes, i've had this issue since i builded my pc (1 year ago)

[SOLO_AVENGER]

Could you test with a different power supply? If you can't then I would RMA your GPU as it shouldn't be crashing at stock.

[trollgame937]

On 8/1/2019 at 12:46 PM, SOLO_AVENGER said:

Could you test with a different power supply? If you can't then I would RMA your GPU as it shouldn't be crashing at stock.

I don't have any other PSU so i'm gonna to raplace it. Last thing, i've noticed that when i have enable the oc profile and i start heaven benchmark sometimes the bench get stucked for a second and then the screen goes black for 5 second agter that the test resume like nothing happened, what means this?