overvolt Overvolting an RTX 3050

[TOG_WAS_HERE]

I have a Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 OC 8G that I overclocked to about ~2167Mhz max power limit, stable on MSI afterburner. Any more and it'll start crashing.

However, the cooling performance on the card is fantastic, and I want to overvolt the GPU to get some more performance out of it. I'm not sure what I need to modify to get around the power limit.

[Skiiwee29]

could try a shunt mod. its about the only thing you could try without modding the vbios. 

[emosun]

Is the goal to shorten the lifespan of the gpu to the point of frying it because a 3050 isnt meant to be overclocked nor does it contain any temperature sensors on surface mount components. So long as the gpu is 100% disposeable then there wont be an issue

[SorryBella]

1 hour ago, TOG_WAS_HERE said:

However, the cooling performance on the card is fantastic

...because its a low end card on a 3 fan design made for higher end cards. Honestly besides Shunt Modding as @Skiiwee29 suggested there's not much way to do it and by the end of it you honestly probably gonna be silicon limited rather than PD limited.

[Lord Nicoll]

Unfortunatly there isn't too much more you could get out of a GPU like this, not on ambient at least, as overvolting is only something you do now with such small lithographies on more extreme levels of cooling, from chilled liquid to liquid nitrogen, but if you'd like I can walk you though the process for volt modding the card, first though I'd want to know your level of soldering capability and what equipment you have, and that you understand you could completely fry not only the card but also the the CPU, possible the RAM and motherboard too if something truely catastrophic happens (like shorting 12v to the PCIe bus, to the CPU, which would fry the SOC on the CPU and probably send 12v to the RAM and chipset)