buildzoid

I've never had an Nvidia card on which I did a vid mod so I have no idea how it will be handled by the BIOS but I think you should be fine.

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It should be possible to do a VID mod on the card. Here's the datasheet for the voltage controller: http://www.infineon.com/dgdl/pb-chl8318.pdf?fileId=5546d462533600a40153567f951a28bd And here's the VR11.1 spec from intel: http://www.intel.com/Assets/en_US/PDF/designguide/321736.pdf On page 32 of the VR11.1 spec ou will find the VID table that the CHiL 8318 uses. At least it should be that VID table I'd recommend checking what VID the card uses at stock and what voltage that leads to. If it matches the table then you can go ahead with using that table to do a hard mod on the card. EDIT: Also I would check what all the pins on the controller pinout are hooked up to. They might be hooked up to the VID pins of the controller and that would make modding a lot easier.

did you disable tesselation?

Seasonic, EVGA, Superflower, Antec, Be Quite all make good PSUs.

In the datasheet for the NCP5388 it says that the ILIM pin: "Over current shutdown threshold. To program the shutdown threshold, connect this pin to the ROSC pin via a resistor divider as shown in the Applications Schematics. To disable the over current feature connect this pin directly to the ROSC pin. To guarantee correct operation, this pin should only be connected to the voltage generated by the ROSC pin – do not connect this pin to any externally generated voltages." So if you short ILIM(pin 13) to ROSC(pin 12) it should disable OCP. Here's the datasheet: http://www.onsemi.com/pub_link/Collateral/NCP5388-D.PDF On the topic of OVP it says: "The OVP circuit monitors the output of DIFFOUT. If the DIFFOUT signal reaches 180 mV above the nominal 1.3 V offset the OVP will trip. The DIFFOUT signal is the difference between the output voltage and the DAC voltage plus the 1.3 V internal offset. This results in the OVP tracking the DAC voltage even during a dynamic change in the VID setting during operation." The thing is I don't see how the NCP5388 could possibly know what voltage the VRM is putting out if you go and mod the VS+ instead of VFB. Admittedly VS+ goes straight to VCC but I bet you can cut the trace for it somewhere and then feed it a skewed voltage reading through a potentiometer to get the voltages that you actually want. That's what I would try before going full zombie at least.

Mobo can be dead. The reason I'm looking for dead stuff is so that it's as cheap as possible.

are you willing to hard mod it?

I need a dead LGA 1150 quadcore(devils canyon ideally) and a motherboard to go with it for a project I'm working.

So I just did some testing and I found something rather odd. The memory voltage setting in Wattman doesn't seem to do anything. I've tested values from 800mv to 1150mv and when checking the various VRMs on my card with a DMM I found that none of the voltages actually changed. So I'm wondering if that voltage setting even does anything. Because after some closer investigation of the PCB I found that the 1V AUX rail is using one of those APW8722 controllers which don't support software voltage control. The IR 3567B seems to only control the core voltage and nothing else.

Good to know I'll see if I can work something out. Does the air BIOS work by any chance? I haven't tried the LN2 BIOS on my GTR yet. BTW the Red Devil has one of the weakest VRMs of the RX 480s so if you bench it on air/water keep the VRM temperature low or it might burn out when doing 1.3V+ approaching or exceeding 1500mhz.

Try the Elmor LN2 BIOS. It should work on most cards that are close to reference(XFX GTR, Powercolor Red Devil) or reference PCB. I haven't yet started on trying to figure out how the Elmor LN2 BIOS works. Currently busy messing with RAM timings and then getting a full Vmod(Vmem, AUX and 0.95V) guide done for the RX 480 GTR PCB.

I think it's more like no one really cares about 6 core globals and for new 3D 6 cores is just not enough.

Have you tried Trixx? It might support OV on both cards. I never had issues with it for more modern CF setups.

you need to de-solderer the IHS somehow.

Are all the 5930Ks gone?

No

I just got this board. Unfortunately the best RAM I have is some meh PSC.

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The card should be using a rebranded NCP81022. Not sure how you would actually confirm that though.

I'm definitely coming if I have the time to go. Loved the last one even if I didn't really get much benching done.

IMO power boards won't do anything on the RX 460. The VRMs on the only 2 460s I would try to use both look plenty powerful. So you won't have power issues. As for power quality you could try put more caps on the VRM but the NCP should be driving each phase at 440Khz already and most recent AMD cards really didn't benefit from any of my attempts to add capacitors to the Vcore VRMs. What I would focus on is getting memory voltage, AUX, and .95V modded. Also if the memory doesn't scale with volts I would try tighter memory timings. Most AMD GPU BIOSs these days contain several sets of memory timings so it should be a case of just copying some lower clock timings into the higher clock timing slot. No I'm not joining but I do want to mess with an RX 460. So I'll help where I can.

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The 3Dmark Firestrike 11 and the like should award GPU HWpoints base on the Graphics test score not on the overall scores. Right now you need a 8/10 core intel to compete in modern 3D benchmarks.