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Old October 19, 2007, 04:37 PM
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What is the Stock Voltage for my Card? I want to know so I can work on over clocking :)

My Video Card is an MSI NX7800GT - 256MB PCI-E

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Old October 19, 2007, 05:59 PM
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You can't exactly change the voltage easily anyways without either modifying the card's BIOS or physically modifying the card.

You can adjust the Core and Memory clocks by using RivaTuner or ATITool.
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Old October 19, 2007, 06:01 PM
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I can up the PCI-E Voltage in my bios.

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Stock BIOS BTW.


It lists Voltage's and I pick which I want to run. NOT how many mV I want to increase it.
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That's the voltage to the slot, not to the card.
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ahh...


Thank-you very much for the info.

The Video card will retain stock voltage for now then.

Should I just leave the PCI-E Slot voltage as "Auto" ???
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ahh...


Thank-you very much for the info.

The Video card will retain stock voltage for now then.

Should I just leave the PCI-E Slot voltage as "Auto" ???
Unless you are overclocking yes leave it as auto.
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Thanks.

Any suggestion for when I try over clocking my video card? (Im sure I will end up trying soon enough)
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Thanks.

Any suggestion for when I try over clocking my video card? (Im sure I will end up trying soon enough)
What OS are you running? Cause if its Vista you will have little luck with stupid ntune or rivatuner because Vista doesn't like unknown programs to start up at boot.
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Thank-you very much for the info.

The Video card will retain stock voltage for now then.

Should I just leave the PCI-E Slot voltage as "Auto" ???
I'm not sure if many folks overclock their PCIe slots (other than the fairly traditional 101 vice 100 just to ensure that the slot is freq. locked) anymore. I did some trial and error stuff a while back using info I got from Ntune (this is a long while back... haven't used Ntune in a couple of years at least) and found an actual FPS benefit in 3DMark testing to pushing the speed up.

Most overclocking guides I've seen though suggest that overclocking the PCIe slot by much will hamper CPU overclocking attempts.
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