MSI N460GTX Hawk (1GB) Overclocking Results

I've had very good results with overclocking my N460GTX Hawk video card.
For the past 6 months I've been documenting my overclocking results and had success with using additional cooling solutions to decrease the PCB and VRM temperatures.
Check out MSI N460GTX Hawk (1GB) Overclocking and Cooling Results:
http://forums.tweaktown.com/video-cards/42319-msi-n460gtx-hawk-1gb-overclocking-results.html
As of today (July 4th) the thread has only 93 posts.
My new N460GTX Hawk Talon Attack card is arriving in a few days and I plan to use my N650SLI-DS4 motherboard with an overclocked SLI setup. I'm curious to see how well SLI performance scales with an "ancient" motherboard.

Quote from: by Unwinder developer of Afterburner to a similar Question in Afterburner support forum
That's supposed to be that way, you WILL NOT be able to monitor voltage changes with any software tool reading voltages via NVIDIA driver.
Hawk uses additional voltage controller chip which is adding programmable voltage offset to output voltage of reference NVIDIA voltage control circuit.
None of tools you've mentioned support that additional chip and just show you expected target voltage (which doesn't match real value in case of adding an offset via that additional chip).
Furthermore, that additional chip itself also doesn't support voltage readings, it doesn't even know which voltage is on its' input, it is rather simple IC which just trying to modify the input value by specified offset.
That is why there is no (and there will not be in future, I've seen rumors that I'm working on getting voltage monitoring working on Hawks and I say that's not true) voltage monitoring for Hawks when alternate voltage controller circuit is in use.
The best thing that can be done to see some form of expected voltage is approximating the output by displaying summ of NVIDIA reference voltage with additional offset, but that's by far not the best solution because both components (reference circuit and additional offset circuit) add its own inaccuracy.
original here -> http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=3749461&postcount=78
Could try a Multimeter.

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Msi n460gtx hawk voltages???

hello! i need some help with my msi n460gtx hawk. i overclocked this vga and for unknown reasons my voltages to the core/memory/aux stays the same as before at the default clocks(780/1560/1800). now i'm running at 900/1800/2100 mhz,everything stable(msi kombustor burn-in and a lot of games) and those voltage values: +70mv core/+50mv memory/+20mv auxiliar. idle voltage is 0,875v and load is 1,012v same at default clocks and the overclocking. i guess it must show me some increase in voltage,since i pushed forward those values in afterburner,but...everything looks unchanged! i saw others users having some increase in core voltage,when they overclock and tweaking voltages,but is not my case! i don't know what is happening. really,at the voltages i applied it should stay at 0,890-0.900v idle and 1,050v or above in loading... but my hawk looks like i never touched the voltage sliders! i checked those values with gpu-z and aida 64 extreme edition and both show me the same results. i don't have stability issues for the moment,but i guess it will comes some day if my vga don't work with some extra power applied at those frequencys... i have msi afterburner 2.1 installed. i just tried with afterburner 2.0 and the results are the same... i tried 1.6 and i cannot unlock voltage with it... i use an amd phenom II X4 955 clocked at 3,6ghz,mobo gigabyte 890fxa-ud5 and 4 gb ram ddr3 1333mhz dual ch. please someone tell me if is something wrong with my card or i missed something when i overclocked it? thank you very much for your advices!

Quote from: by Unwinder developer of Afterburner to a similar Question in Afterburner support forum
That's supposed to be that way, you WILL NOT be able to monitor voltage changes with any software tool reading voltages via NVIDIA driver.
Hawk uses additional voltage controller chip which is adding programmable voltage offset to output voltage of reference NVIDIA voltage control circuit.
None of tools you've mentioned support that additional chip and just show you expected target voltage (which doesn't match real value in case of adding an offset via that additional chip).
Furthermore, that additional chip itself also doesn't support voltage readings, it doesn't even know which voltage is on its' input, it is rather simple IC which just trying to modify the input value by specified offset.
That is why there is no (and there will not be in future, I've seen rumors that I'm working on getting voltage monitoring working on Hawks and I say that's not true) voltage monitoring for Hawks when alternate voltage controller circuit is in use.
The best thing that can be done to see some form of expected voltage is approximating the output by displaying summ of NVIDIA reference voltage with additional offset, but that's by far not the best solution because both components (reference circuit and additional offset circuit) add its own inaccuracy.
original here -> http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=3749461&postcount=78
Could try a Multimeter.

SOS HELP!! MSI 7850 hawk 1Gb ORIGIN ROM AND UEFI ROM

Hi boss,i have a card MSI 7850 hawk 1Gb,but when i flash the rom you give to this man in post"forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=167409.0",my screen go to black ,it seems i flash the wrong rom and the wrost is i didn' backup the old rom, i checked and find out my card need 1C1.rom,not 1E1.rom,could you please send me a copy of 1C1 origin ROM and UEFI rom please? Or my vediocard was going to broken. THANKS A LOT :(

Quote from: candymanye on 06-February-14, 03:32:17
Yes i have VGA and can flash it back,all i need is an oringin ROM
MY card S/N is 602-V273-20SC1307012945-366
NAME IS:R7850 HAWK 1G
PLEASE HELP ME IN HURRY I CANT FALL IN SLEEP :(
Good news,i have flashed a rom related by a post "https://www.dropbox.com/s/i53tzcobzmjh5k4/001.rom" and it works,it's the same bios i need ,now my card live again,but where can i find the UEFI ROM of my card?

Msi N460GTX HAWK Fan Failure

I have two N460GTX HAWK's. They're in SLi. One of them has had one of the two fans fail. The fan is seized up. For the last couple weeks I've been hearing what sounded like rattling case metal inside my computer. Since the computer is 5 years old I thought nothing of it. Besides I've had case rattle before and just wedged some cardboard spacers in to stop it. Another thing I noticed was my primary graphics card seems to have been getting hotter than normal. A few times the loud beep these cards make when their temp is approaching the limit has occurred. I now see that one of the fans must have been failing. To compensate for the temperature, I would just manually crank up my system fan and that seemed to work.
I seem to remember on September 16, 2010 when I bought this card that they came with a 3 year warranty. Would this fan issue be covered under that warranty?
Also, I don't see the N460GTX HAWK as being sold by msi (or maybe anyone) anymore. Should this become a RMA issue, would it be possible to get an exact replacement?
Today when I started my computer up, I had no video to my monitor. I switched my monitor cable to my other cards DVI output and the video worked again. My question is, if one of the fans fail on the N460GTX HAWK will the card stop working (to protect itself)? The card with the bad fan couldn't have been hot yet since I had just turned the computer on. Also the video was working just an hour or so before this.

I had not thought about the vrm temperature. I have a Logitech G19 keyboard and I monitor the GPU's temps while I'm playing games so I think it's unlikely that the GPU has been damaged on my card. Considering the vrm has no heat sink some of it may have gotten too hot. I got an RMA number and sent the card to msi. The card is due to arrive at msi on June 4th 2013. Hopefully it's just a quick fan exchange and they send the same one back.
I feel compelled to add that, up to this point, these msi GTX460's have been excellent video cards. The build quality is very high. The heat sinks capability is excellent. My computer is 6 years old and the airflow in my case is typically poor. I often have to run my system fan at 80% to push heat out of the case. These cards however have operated in this environment as though it was native to them. I've estimated close to 2500 hours of continuous use on these cards now. I consider one of the fans dyeing after this long and this much use to be a small incident and in no way detracts from the stellar performance of these msi cards.
Quote from: flobelix on 01-June-13, 21:23:18
mislav.ruzman this is surely not your topic. As you can see it's the topic of someone else seeking for help. Don't hijack that thread with your own issue but open an own (>>Please read and comply with the Forum Rules.<<). Unlike your vga's fans those of topic starter are physically defect.
@Gamtu:
Of course the faulty fan is covered by warranty and is subject of rma. The defective cooling could have caused other defects (e.g. dying vrms because of overheating). Just contact your reseller or MSI and issue rma. MSI has always also older products for replacing defective items in stock even if those aren't sold anymore. If none is in stock you'd get a comparable current product. Usually it's a bit better one.

MOVED: msi n460gtx hawk voltages???

This topic has been moved to Overclockers & Undervolting & Modding Corner.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=149686.0

Quote from: by Unwinder developer of Afterburner to a similar Question in Afterburner support forum
That's supposed to be that way, you WILL NOT be able to monitor voltage changes with any software tool reading voltages via NVIDIA driver.
Hawk uses additional voltage controller chip which is adding programmable voltage offset to output voltage of reference NVIDIA voltage control circuit.
None of tools you've mentioned support that additional chip and just show you expected target voltage (which doesn't match real value in case of adding an offset via that additional chip).
Furthermore, that additional chip itself also doesn't support voltage readings, it doesn't even know which voltage is on its' input, it is rather simple IC which just trying to modify the input value by specified offset.
That is why there is no (and there will not be in future, I've seen rumors that I'm working on getting voltage monitoring working on Hawks and I say that's not true) voltage monitoring for Hawks when alternate voltage controller circuit is in use.
The best thing that can be done to see some form of expected voltage is approximating the output by displaying summ of NVIDIA reference voltage with additional offset, but that's by far not the best solution because both components (reference circuit and additional offset circuit) add its own inaccuracy.
original here -> http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=3749461&postcount=78
Could try a Multimeter.

The Official MSI K8N Neo Platinum Overclocking Results Thread...

OK people we need a thread where we can all show what kind of overclocks we are getting at the moment with our A64 boards, both for our interest as a resource, and anyone who happens to want to know what the boards can do with different hardware configs.
Just post your system specs (CPU, RAM, MOBO, COOLING etc etc) highest overclocks, and as much relevant information as possible, like settings you think made a difference. If you reach a higher overclock that you originally posted, simply edit your post to reflect that.
DO NOT JUNK THE THREAD WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR HARDWARE PROBLEMS, KEEP IT SWEET AND SIMPLE AND PLEASE PM EACHOTHER IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS !!!!
Mine will be updated next week when I collect my MSI Neo Platnum, 3400+ "CG" stepping and i'm also ordering some OCZ PC3500 EB and some AData Vitesta PC4000 to play around with and hopefully hit those uber-FSB's. :D

This board is hard to figure out.
Clawhammer 3200+ CG 1MB rev 1.2 beta 5 bios
Max tested stable overclock with corsair 3200ll rev 1.2 is 220fsb 1:1 HTT divider doesn't work with this memory. HTT divider is very unstable if it works at all.
Max (still testing) with corsair 2x512mb 4400 Mem at 166:200 240HTTx4 mem at stock volts, cpu 1.6v. I just got this far this morning. Priming now as I type. Failed prime95 at 1.55v.
2xwd 36gb raptors raid 0 won't work on SATA 3,4 only 1,2. Instant bluescreen if using ports 3,4. HTT seems to max at 240 and I've tried every multiplier and 3x 2x HTT. I think I've got the 3,4 HTT limitiation and 1,2 doesn't work with my drives
I must admit up until about 2 hours ago I was very disappointed in my new platform but now the system is faster than my barton at 2500mhz with some headroom to go. It's starting to look good if i can get some of these bugs fixed in a new bios.

MSI N460GTX Hawk Talon Attack - LEDs near power connectors

Hello
I've searched this forum and the web, but i didn't found the answer.
I just recently bought this VGA. It works all right, but there's 6 led on the back of the card and two of them are glowing red when power connectors are plugged in.
I just want to know if this is just an indicator that the card is receiving power thru power connectors (when i put them out, they turn off) or if it's indicator that somethings not right (you know, the red color ).
This is my pc:
MB: Asus Sabertooth i55
CPU: Intel i5 760
RAM: Kingston HyperX 8GB
power supply: Silent Pro Gold 700W
etc
Power usage shouldn't be the problem, got 2 HDD and 1 SSD and 4 fans (i used couple of web power, all of them showed value around 520W).
I've tried connect the card like 3 or 4 times (plugged with 2 separated cables from supply, connected only by "hard installed cable", conect it via one modular cable etc.), the card's 2 LEDs are always on (it's LED1 and LED2).
Thx in advance for any info.
John

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I just recently bought this VGA. It works all right, but there's 6 led on the back of the card and two of them are glowing red when power connectors are plugged in.
I just want to know if this is just an indicator that the card is receiving power thru power connectors (when i put them out, they turn off) or if it's indicator that somethings not right (you know, the red color Smiley ).
You are talking about APS Leds or? See attached image.

SLI N460gtx Hawk weird beeping

Hi guys
I have been getting these beeping sounds from my SLI hawks i know its not coil whine its a clear beeping noise like when a motherboard beeps. It only happens when the gpu's are stressed in games or benchtests.
My Rig
Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E V0303
CPU: i7-930
Memory: Geil DDR3 2x2GB 1333 MHz
Video Card: 2X MSI N460GTX Hawk 1GB
HDD WD Velociraptor 150GB 16MB SATA2 10,000 RPM
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit
PSU: Antec 1000W Truepower Quattro http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/product.php?id=NTk=

Quote from: chippie on 23-September-10, 16:25:55
Its a very clear beeping
The system doesn't crash just beeps about 30 seconds into games or benchtests but stops after a couple of seconds. Only happens in graphic intensive games like metro 2033 and mafia
I have recorded and uploaded the beeping for you http://www.zshare.net/download/80702890b1e0ff16/
I dont thinks its the PSU. i used Asus PSU calculator and im 200W over for what i need for my system
the hotest the VGA's get is 65-70c and the 2nd VGA is in the last PCI-E slot with a gap of 45mm between the 2.
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I have recorded and uploaded the beeping for you http://www.zshare.net/download/80702890b1e0ff16/
No idea what those beeps means.
[Which you told that they only occur in SLI mode, when GPU's are underload and its for few seconds then they are gone]
But they are probably not a error indication,[based on what i can hear] sound like they are some kind of informative purpose.
Contact Assus support and MSI support also here: http://support.msi.com/
to have a ask about them.

N460GTX Hawk

Hey, all. I want to preface this by saying that I'm very new to overclocking. I just replaced my old system (a P4 with 2gb PC3200 and an HD3850 AGP lol) with an i7 950, 6gb DDR2000, and an MSI n460GTX Hawk.
I chose the Hawk because the reviews all pointed to a great performing card with TONS of headroom for overclocking, providing a lot of bang for my buck. Figured it would be great to have one and get a second in a few months. For now I planned to experiment with tweaking it.
Well, everywhere I look people are saying they got to 950mhz+ on the core, but I understand that that was before MSI limited the VCore to +100mV. A shame they put that limit there, I say. I was hoping to get the most out of this card.
Even then, with the limit, I can't seem to get the card stable! I have tried to go as low as 900mhz with +100mV, well below what the card can handle on the mV (since it can handle all +200mV, really), and well below what it SEEMS the appropriate core frequency should be... but after 5 minutes in Furmark (extreme burn enabled) it's sitting at 71 degrees and the driver resets (screen goes white, furmark stops responding for a while, has to be reset, all the clock speeds, etc, reset...)
I can get it to run in Furmark like that at 225mhz core with +100mV but it will only run for about 2.5-3min before the driver stops responding. Anything above that causes the driver to stop responding exponentially faster.
I have tried this with the VRAM at 1800mhz stock and no added voltage, VRAM at 2000mhz and no added voltage, VRAM at 2000 and +50mV (no benefit so I dropped that back to 0,) and I tried messing with the AUX voltage a bit to no effect what-so-ever as well.
I just can't help but shake the suspicion that I should be able to get more out of this card, that maybe I'm doing something wrong. The temps are usually going anywhere near what I read as the maximum for these cards... I don't know. Just seems that being unstable at 900mhz with +100mV on the core is indicative of user error or sub-par hardware. Not sure which. Figured I would as you all and see if maybe there was some stupid setting somewhere I didn't enable or disable, etc.
Again my last PC was a P4 and nothing special, so I'm new to a lot of this new tech.
Thanks for any help and responses in advance.

Hai Miskat my hawk460 can stable with default volts at 875/2100 and for 900/2200 i have to raise vcore +40mv and vmem +50mv.... but my friend also have hawk460 but he cannot get 900mhz even vcore added to +100mv i guess not every card performs same in overclocking.
This is stressing to check artifact with ATItool for 20minutes at stock volts :
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I can do furmark for 20minutes at 900/2200 with vcore +20mv/+50mv but in gaming always crash and clock back to default because lack of vcore, so i raise until stable in gaming which is +40mv.
But with ATItool 900/2200 with +20mv/+50mv will get error after 2minutes then i must add +40mv just for vcore to make it stable like my SS up there.

N460GTX HAWK - Afterburner only shows +100 even bios is uncapped to 1.212v

i got BetA13 from Guru3D.com's forum to uncap the voltage for my MSI N460GTX Hawk card to 1.212v but MSI Afterburner 2.1.0 Beta 6 can still only show +100 in Core Voltage but Orbmu2k's Nvidia Inspector shows op to 1.212v in the Overclocking fan, so is this bad uncap or Afterburner fail?
i show on Guru3D where i got Beta 6 that the HAWK card used goes over +100 it's at +126 so how do i do this? ^^;

Quote from: DaLoona on 26-January-11, 22:06:41
Click on the small arrow on the right side of the where to adjust voltage, it should show a dropdown menu.
that doesn't help increasing the core voltage

N460GTX HAWK Airflow

I have just bought 2 x MSI N460GTX Hawk cards to fit in an Rampage II MB in an SLI configuration to drive a 3 monitor display, however the the cards are so fat the the second card butts upto the the first card, leaving only a few mm space between them, can I safely run these cards like this.
I was so taken with the reviews for these cards, I failed to appreciate just how much room they took up.

you can stress them with furmark:
http://www.geeks3d.com/20110628/furmark-1-9-1-furmark-1-8-5-download-gpu-stress-test-burn-in-graphics-card-opengl/

MSI GTX 760 HAWK low overclocking/core voltage lock

Hello, I bought the gtx 760 hawk and i tried to overclock it, but it's overclocking potential is very low. Furthermore if I change core voltage +12mV in afterburner nothing changes. Voltage is still stuck at 1.200. There's absolutely no difference. I use ver. 3.0.0 beta 14 of afterburner. Please help.

GTX 760 NVidia specs
Base Clock 980
Boost Clock 1033
MSI N760 Hawk
Base Clock 1111
Boost Clock 1176
That is what the card is guaranteed to prvide you with.
Additionally, MSI provides voltage and clock adjustments to allow users to potentially OC it even more (no guarantee). Each individual sample will yield different results. We have users that had to RMA cards because they were unstable even at the guaranteed OC'ed speeds.
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I see in some reviews that they reach the power limit at the level of 185%
Review sites receive cherry picked samples that have been pre-tested and the results are indicative of what the best of the range may do. All the manufacturers try and have their best samples reviewed for obvious reasons.
The MSI Afterburner releases will be updated when Unwinder and the rest of the development team get around to it. Read the dedicated threads in guru3d

Msi R6870 hawk twin 1gb - Will boot but no signal

Hi.
■CPU brand, model and speed
CPU= intel duo core E6620
■ Motherboard model (full marketing name, not just MS-xxxx) - >> How to identify your motherboard and BIOS version <<
Asrock P43DE3
■ Memory brand, type/speed, size, number of sticks
2x kingston ddr3 ram 1600mhz genesis
■ Video card brand, chipset type, memory size
Msi R6870 hawk twin 1gb
■ Hard drive(s) brand, size, type, speed
Older WD sata 2 HD's
■ Any other peripheral cards and devices
■ Operating system and version (including if 32 or 64bit!)
Windows 7 64 bit
■ Power Supply Unit brand and output in watts and DC output (amps) - >> How to find your PSU specs <<
500W power supply
I've just upgraded my computer with buying a new GFX card (R6870) new ram (DDR3 1600mhz) and a new motherboard (asrock p43de3)
Everything is working when powering on, there is no signal to the monitor however.
Tried already:
Checked all cables. Using 1x 6pin connector in both spots on the gfx card.
Tried with a backup GFX card, ati radeon 19xx and it worked perfectly, so it's not the motherboard.
I just tried putting in a chassis speaker and i get 2 very fast beeps, pause 8 fast beeps, pause, 1 beep.
I have tried with minimal hardware connected (No hd's, 1 ramblock, no cd drive, fans etc)
It shouldnt be the power supply, my old card (Inno3d geforce 8800 GTS used around the same amount of power according to specifications)
I havent got a newer computer to try the GFX card in, is it even compatible with my asrock motherboard? (I know it should be due to it having pci express 2.1)
Is the GFX card DOA?
Help much appreciated, been struggeling for +10 hours now..
Thanks in advance

In theory, yes, the P43-C51 should support the R6870, since it has a v2.0 slot (problems have been mostly with the v1.x slots). That's something you'd have to test though, to find out for certain.
I don't work for MSI btw, if that's what you thought.

MSI GTX 770 Lightning LE Edition --- Original/LN2 strange overclock results

Ok guys this is very strange OVERCLOCK results!! On my gtx 770 Lightning LE card i have 2 bios which need to be physically move(switch) by my hand on Graphis Card!
In ORGINAL Bios my OC results is higher and better then on LN2 Bios
MSI Settings on ORGINAL bios:
Name: GeForce GTX 770 Lightning LE
Driver Version: 334.89
Core Voltage: +100
Power Limired +109%
Core Clock: +150 Mhz GPU-Z-> GPU CLOCK: 1222; Boost: 1274 ; GPU 2.0 Boost: 1306 Mhz
Mmemory Clock: +500
Picture of ORIGINAL BIOS: http://www.mediafire.com/view/myfiles/#j6zvj9n0u6dhla2
LN2 BIOS:
Name: GeForce gtx 770
Driver Version: 334.89
Core Voltage: +12
Power Limited: +109%
Core Clock : +110Mhz ; GPU-Z-> GPU CLOCK: 1182; Boost: 1234 ; GPU 2.0 Boost: 1267 Mhz
Memory Clock: + 500Mhz
Picture of LN2 BIOS: http://www.mediafire.com/view/myfiles/#oq818435y296uj3
With LN2 BIOS we need to have more OVERCLOCK potential or not? For me ORGINAL bios give me more OVERCLOCK potential than LN2 BIOS. Why is it so?

Quote from: flobelix on 26-March-14, 04:10:14
Obviously you don't understand. LN2 allows to set higher voltages not increase oc potential with the same settings. When setting less extra voltage in LN2 than in normal vbios results can't be better.
Then why is voltage on "LN2 BIOS" only +12 and on ORIGINAL BIOS much better +100?
Look this: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/09/22/msi_geforce_gtx_780_lightning_video_card_review/3#.UzHuZPldWio
He have more OC potencial with LN2 BIOS! I really don't understand! And in Afterburner writes: MSI gtx 780 Lightning (LN2)
And when is my card on ORIGINAL bios in Afterburner writes " Graphics Card: MSI GTX 770 Lightning LE"
When is card on LN2 bios in Afterburner writes "Graphics Card: GeForce gtx 770"
Look my 2 pictures

UVD-power summary of MSI 5770 Hawk, 5570, & 785GTM-E45; Hawk min voltage

MSI R5770 Hawk
MSI R5570-MD1G
MSI 785GTM-E45
GPU PWR SYS f_GPU f_VRAM V_GPU set V_GPU meas Note 1: freq & voltage Note 2: system state
DCW Mhz Mhz V V
785 35 197 400 idle stock idle, light (5 min max)
785 46 498 400 UVD stock 1x 720p sharpen complex 2
5570 43 157 200 0.9 idle stock idle, light (5 min max)
5570 54 400 800 1 UVD stock 1x 720p sharpen complex 2
5570 52 400 800 0.9 0.8987 UVD undervolt/underclock 1 1x 720p sharpen complex 2
5570 55 400 800 0.9 0.9001 UVD undervolt/underclock 1 1x 1080p sharpen complex 2
5770 53 157 300 0.95 0.956 idle stock idle, light (5 min max)
5770 58 157 600 0.95 0.957 idle 2x f_VRAM idle, light (5 min max)
5770 65 157 1200 0.95 0.957 idle 4x f_VRAM (nom. max) idle, light (5 min max)
5770 61 400 900 0.95 0.958 idle @ UVD stock idle, light (5 min max)
5770 72 400 900 0.95 0.9499 UVD stock 1x 720p sharpen complex 2
5770 75 400 900 0.95 0.9508 UVD stock 1x 1080p sharpen complex 2
5770 60 157 300 0.95 0.9498 UVD undervolt/underclock 1 1x 720p sharpen complex 2
5770 63 157 300 0.95 0.9503 UVD undervolt/underclock 1 1x 1080p sharpen complex 2
5770 61 157 200 0.95 0.9497 UVD undervolt/underclock 2 1x 720p sharpen complex 2
5770 61 157 200 0.95 0.9497 UVD undervolt/underclock 2 1x 1080p sharpen complex 2
AMD Power Play states are glitchy, and not all videos detect and run with DirectX Video Acceleration. So max power during playback can end up on the highest power state which is not shown above.
MSI R5770 Hawk minimum power
The uP6204 power controller used on the MSI R5770 Hawk design nominally supports 0.5625 to 1.3500V in 0.0125V steps.
With a stock video BIOS, MSI Afterburner 1.50/1.51 allows the MSI R5770 Hawk to be soft-modded from 1.000 to 1.350V in the roughly 0.0125V steps.
The video BIOS can be set as low as 0.950V but with no steps between 0.950 and 1.000V.
MSI Afterburner 1.60 beta 4 or earlier adds the AllowCaptureVoltageDefaults profile setting. Acquiring, then changing the default GPU voltage allows "resetting" the Hawk to 0.950V in Afterburner for the highest frequency state. This allows maintaining Power Play transitions and running the max frequency at 0.950V, where Afterburner by itself is limited to 1.000V.
The max frequency state of the Hawk is 875 MHz 1200 MHz 1.200V. To have the most flexibilty on control the Hawk, lowest power in the Desktop/HTPC/light gaming, and the ability to manually overvolt/overclock for specific games: run the Hawk at 0.950V in the max frequency state.
How-to work around Afterburner and the Hawk design to run 1.000V in the max frequency state. *
1) in the video BIOS, leave the voltage as 1.200V in the BIOS--which is required for Afterburner to change the Hawk voltages in Windows
2) in the video BIOS, change the GPU frequency of that state to something less than or equal to the maximum stable frequency at 1.000V
3) in Afterburner, Reset to default settings **
4) in Afterburner, change "Core Voltage" to 1.000V
5) in Afterburner, Apply
6) in Afterburner, Save to Profile 1
7) in Afterburner, \Settings\Profiles\2D Profile\ & "3D Profile" choose "Profile 1" ***
8) on each Windows startup, run Afterburner
How-to work around Afterburner and the Hawk design to run 0.950V in the max frequency state.*
1) in the video BIOS, leave the voltage as 1.200V in the BIOS--which is required for Afterburner to change the Hawk voltages in Windows
2) in the video BIOS, change the GPU frequency of that state to something less than or equal to the maximum stable frequency at 0.950V
3) in Afterburner, confirm the voltage default setting for 0.950V--capture voltage defaults as needed using AllowCaptureVoltageDefaults mentioned above
4) in notepad as an Administrator (Win 6.x), change the Hawk's profile configuration file to 0.950V
example:
[Settings]
uP6204_Defaults=D7 20
5) in Afterburner, Reset to default settings **
6) in Afterburner, change "Core Voltage" to 1.000V--changing the profile setting to 0950/950 is not useful as of 1.60 beta 4.
7) in Afterburner, Apply
8) in Afterburner, Save to Profile 1
9) in Afterburner, \Settings\Profiles\2D Profile\ & "3D Profile" choose "Profile 1" ***
10) on each Windows startup, run Afterburner
11) in Afterburner, "Reset" to re-enable 0.950V.
* UnlockVoltageControl in the primary Afterburner profile's [Settings] will likely be needed.
** Only default profiles support Power Play states correctly.
*** Having a non-"default" profile in 3D results in the "3D Profile" activating instead of the UVD in the BIOS.
MSI Afterburner, default voltages
Profile Idle V_GPU @ V_CORE (V)
D7 12 1.125
D7 14 1.100
D7 16 1.047
D7 18 1.049
D7 19 1.037
D7 20 0.949
D7 21 0.937
D7 22 0.925
D7 23 0.912
D7 24 0.899
Power Play states in RBE 1.25
0 Boot 00 -> 00 -> 00
1 Power saving 01 -> 02 -> 00
2 UVD 03 -> 03 -> 03
3 Power saving 04 -> 02 -> 00
4 ACPI 01 -> 01 -> 01
Stock clocks & V_GPU
Clock info 00 01 02 03 04
f_GPU 875 157 600 400 400
f_RAM 1200 300 1200 900 1200
V_GPU 1.20 0.95 1.00 0.95 0.95
My current and likely final settings for MSI R5770 Hawk:
MOD clocks & V_GPU
Clock info 00 01 02 03 04
f_GPU 714 157 600 157 400
f_RAM 1200 300 600 300 600
V_GPU 1.20 0.95 0.95 0.95 0.95
Afterburner Profiles
# CoreVoltage CoreClk MemClk
1 0950 714000 1200000
2 1000 785000 1200000
3 1125 902000 1200000
5 1200 951000 1200000
More data & full system config:
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1858205&postcount=1

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