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In VA, USA it's about the size of my wife's pinkie finger so it's pretty big. They are all over my patio every night and my dog keeps trying to eat them. This one he brought inside. She thinks it's a caterpillar but I've never seen one like that

It's about the size of my wife's pinkie finger so it's pretty big. They are all over my patio every night and my dog keeps trying to eat them. This one he brought inside. She thinks it's a caterpillar but I've never seen one like that

Are you looking for a fully fledged tutorial on what it does and different ways or just a simple this is how you can do what I did above.

Nope but you do have to start MSI afterburner at start up if your using it otherwise your bios will overwrite it everytime. You can make the same changes in your bios but it's a pain in the ass cause most bios sucks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1B4qZFDpYE&ab_channel=GPUreport - first 10 seconds are exactly what I did.

Here's an easy step by step:

1) Open MSI Afterburner

2) Cntrl+F

3) Lower the clock speed to -290ish

4) Click the one thats nearest to 800 on the x axis and drag it up to 1800 on the y axis.

5) Click the checkmark in the main MSI Afterburner UI

6) Done.

I mean I'd still rather have the option because AFAIK the zotac cards are hw/firmware capped and you can't clock them to the factory clock of the FE which seems ridiculous. I'm just surprised they didn't come out of the box like this and give the ability for more OC room.

You're misunderstanding what undervolting is. He's capping the clock speed at 1800mhz, and lowering voltage at the same time. It's the exact same thing I did. Actually undervolting you can literally cap the voltage of your card which can cause issues if you don't know specific power you need at certain clock speeds. This would be akin to running your card with way too lower of a psu.

But why spend 100 dollars when I literally cant hear my cpu fan and it runs at a perfectly fine temperature, that's just wasting money.

I think scarcity of cards from the bitcoin mining phase has caused people to think that cards won't be generally available in a couple months but they definitely will be. There's no reason to think you won't be able to just simply order a card in a couple months easy pz. Although early adopters really shouldn't worry. If you got any company that's decent, nvidia, evga, asus, etc. If there's a real problem with a card they will easily RMA it.

Makes sense, since it was hitting 82c before that may have been why my fps kept going all over the place, maybe the fps difference would be greater if I had liquid cooling but as is with stock and fan case cooling looks like it's more stable under better temps with the underclock.

I just capped the clock speed at specific voltage. Technically it could pull more power as I didn't cap the actual power draw but it won't pull more power if it's not going above clock speed. Basically the first 10 seconds of this video is what I did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1B4qZFDpYE&ab_channel=GPUreport

Most likely. I have a 3700x and it's on performance mode but that literally pulls 75w max. Temps sit around 72-73 and that's with the stock cooler.

Added another benchmark, 2 fps difference, which is about ~3% which is what I see most places saying. But again anecdotally less hitching and honestly ran smoother while I was watching it while underclocked. It felt like the avg was higher without underclocking simply because the highest frame rate was higher but there was way more variance.

Like I said I don't have the ability to benchmark. If there's a free tool to capture avg fps for a period let me know and I can give it a go. Outside that the worst case most demanding scenario I ran was 5 percent.

I don't know if higher performance is really the word, I definitely notice less hitching, it seems like when you go default stock settings the boost clock can go crazy and it's jarring going constantly from 130->150->100->130 fps a lot. I'd rather sit at a constant 130 which it seems to do after underclocking but this may just be placebo. Can you link some of the posts from last night?

My understanding is I can't damage my system, it may just throttle or crash in worst case scenarios which I am fine with figuring out if it's enough and if not I'll grab another psu. And use the new cables this time.