Power Limit too high?

Halftonezero · February 15, 2015

I've modded the BIOS on my PNY GTX 970 because teh power target was locked at a measly 106%. I'm just wondering if I've set it too high? This is my first high end card and I don't want to fry it immediately. I've ran several Valley stress tests and gamed for hours with no problem.

One other thing I've noticed is that whatever I set as an overvolt doesn't matter. If I give +25 mV it caps at 1.23 and anything over 50 mV caps at 1.25. Is this from PNY's BIOS or is it part of the Maxwell architecture?

JustCallMeVlad · February 15, 2015

Pretty sure 1.25v is the limit on the voltage locked cards and the power limit is fine

FloRolf · February 15, 2015

My card doesnt go over 80% power limit anyways so i goess for OCing it almost makes no difference.

Halftonezero · February 15, 2015

Thanks for the replies. The reason I modded the BIOS was because even with a mild overclock the card was pwr limiting in GPUz. With these settings it's boosting to 1495 with the slight voltage bump and keeping the power target around 125%. Temps are fine, I guess I'm just overly cautious. TIFU by cheaping out and buying a G3258 instead of an i5. I guess my next purchase is either the 4690k or 4790k.