

Proceed with caution and at your own risk. Not only EVGA, but I think most vendors won’t warranty any hardware if it shows signs of being used and abused. Consider everything given below as “self-educational” and provided to assist in getting the most out of your shiny new KP card. Taking the time and effort to prepare the VGA properly for more extreme forms of cooling and knowing some of the basics of overclocking, can go a long way to give a better understanding of exactly what is going on when you overclock your VGA at any temperature. This includes not only card PCB preparation for extreme conditions, but having the right software tools + capable supporting hardware( PSU) and a stable platform to test on. I found I can get 95%+ performance for ~75% energy cost by setting the power level to 100 in the above command in my mining rig, but I imagine other power conscious users would appreciate this too.Overclocking/overvoltaging your EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti KINGPIN graphics card on air, water, and LN2 temperatures can be fun and most of all pretty safe for the hardware, as long as it’s done correctly. In my limited experience, setting it too high had no effect. If you set this too low, you will get an error. Where the 0 is my GPU number, and the 90 is the maximum power in watts. =END OF ANSWER=Īnd as an extra tidbit not asked for in this question, you can also adjust the power output of your Nvidia GPU with: sudo nvidia-smi -i 0 -pl 90 nvidia-settings -a "/GPUFanControlState=1" -a "/GPUTargetFanSpeed=55"įor a much more detailed overview of this feature including multiple GPU fans, check out this thorough documentation Nvidia Overclocking and Coolingįor a somewhat rambling and wayward thread which lead me to the above link, check out Set Fanspeed in Linux from Terminal Importantly I note that my 1070 Ti is GPU 0.

Gives information about the GPU(s) and their numbers. To tell nvidia-xconfig to allow the fan to be controlled in the command line. To control Nvidia GPU fan speed via Terminal on Linux Mint 20 with a 1070 Ti: sudo nvidia-xconfig -cool-bits=4
