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Those of you new to overclocking or just getting into benching overclocking and volt modding will probably want to pay attention to this. This is information to Hopefully prevent unwarranted damage to you hardware before you can do the damage you want (ie bench it till it blows).
Some of the more recent volt mods both hardware and software have a much wider range of voltages that one would expect. Any new model card that has a more dynamic range of power management potentially has this going on. There is a high possibility that by either a software or slight hardware modifcation for avoiding down throttling, can result in voltages dangerously outside of safe air temperatures. Sometimes even outside of the safe range that the stock card can deliver without blowing up its VRM's.
Good example of this is a gtx680, so of the software mods you can do to this card can result in pushing the card pushing 1.45volts to the gpu during normal air operation. Which is borderline death of mosfets voltages.
If you are gonna mess around which such things You should really have a hard voltage monitoring point to attach a multimeter to. Since no monitoring software will correctly tell you this is going on. If your not confortable doing this yourself there are some cards that have these points already marked and easy to connect to. Most of Asus's Direct CU cards off this. There are other cards aswell in the normal range of things. But I don't know the names off the top of my head.
Hopefully this helps both our experienced and inexperienced benchers get more out of there hardware.
Some of the more recent volt mods both hardware and software have a much wider range of voltages that one would expect. Any new model card that has a more dynamic range of power management potentially has this going on. There is a high possibility that by either a software or slight hardware modifcation for avoiding down throttling, can result in voltages dangerously outside of safe air temperatures. Sometimes even outside of the safe range that the stock card can deliver without blowing up its VRM's.
Good example of this is a gtx680, so of the software mods you can do to this card can result in pushing the card pushing 1.45volts to the gpu during normal air operation. Which is borderline death of mosfets voltages.
If you are gonna mess around which such things You should really have a hard voltage monitoring point to attach a multimeter to. Since no monitoring software will correctly tell you this is going on. If your not confortable doing this yourself there are some cards that have these points already marked and easy to connect to. Most of Asus's Direct CU cards off this. There are other cards aswell in the normal range of things. But I don't know the names off the top of my head.
Hopefully this helps both our experienced and inexperienced benchers get more out of there hardware.
