Heaven Benchmark

paulpicks21 said:

Yeah it should do mate. The precision X1 updated the bios when I first ran it but it is topping out at 310w which has confused me.

Which BIOS do you have it running on now?

essenbe said:

Which BIOS do you have it running on now?

I have tried both Steve. They both max out at around 310watts even though the latest version on the regular bios is supposed to run what doorules said. Will look into it some more tomorrow.

doorules said:

373 is the limit. You need to crank the core and keep temps down to max it out

I had the core up to 2100mhz and temps were not exceeding 45c so I thought it would have gone higher that 310w. I have ran 2130mhz too on other benchmarks at a max of 40c and it still maxed out at 310w. Seems strange it's not going above 310w but I will look into it when I get more time bud.

Yeah I would have thought it should be pulling 350w at least.

That's very impressive bud. Excellent core speed. I will most likely look at flashing a different bios onto the 2nd oc bios on the ftw3 which will hopefully sort the issue out but will look into in a more detail first. I didn't get enough time for testing yesterday.

Have you got the power limit slider at 124% in the PX1 software Paul? Where are you getting the 310W reading? Pretty sure I can pull 370W in this one, I'll see what else I can think of.

paulpicks21 said:

Yeah I would have thought it should be pulling 350w at least.

That's very impressive bud. Excellent core speed. I will most likely look at flashing a different bios onto the 2nd oc bios on the ftw3 which will hopefully sort the issue out but will look into in a more detail first. I didn't get enough time for testing yesterday.

Well from what I've read on the EVGA forums, you cannot flash a different Custom bios on your FTW3 ....Evga does not allow it on there cards.

OldMike65 said:

Well from what I've read on the EVGA forums, you cannot flash a different Custom bios on your FTW3 ....Evga does not allow it on there cards.

That has never stopped enthusiast' from hacking software/hardware before has it?

OldMike65 said:

Well from what I've read on the EVGA forums, you cannot flash a different Custom bios on your FTW3 ....Evga does not allow it on there cards.

That's a change in policy then. I called them a couple of years ago and was told "That's why we give you 2 BIOS" They said as long as one of the BIOS is stock, they don't care. They must have changed, but that hasn't ever stopped anyone. Just backup the stock bios.