Quote Originally Posted by Invisahealz View Post
What does increasing the voltage do? Can it cause harm to the cards or anything else? I dont know much about this stuff so i dont wanna blow up my computer either lol. But ill have to give that a try. Ran for bout 6 hours last night with all in DX9 and settings turned down except main on good settings. I tried disabling Vsync and i only had 1 of the clients crash all night. Thats a new record! and also i never had the problem where the flashing of weird colors and shapes on toon switching. woot.

my current voltage is 1.0250.
on some logs i do notice the voltage every now and there (once in an hour for about 1-5 seconds drops to 0.963v) is that normal or bad? 99.999% of the log i recorded is always at 1.0250v
Having read the EVGA and nVidia forums for over the last year I can tell you that many people experienced crashing drivers due to having had a factory voltage that was set too low (myself included). Your stock voltage is actually higher than my stock voltage (1.013v) and every video card is different. In SLI, I would experience a lot of driver crashes until I bumped my cards up to 1.038v. Every once in a while I would still get a crash so I moved up to 1.050v which is where they're currently at today and I no longer experience any crashing like I used to. More voltage will add more heat, but unless you're trying to overclock and overvolt the card to extremes you're unlikely to see much of a difference.

The BIOS on the card will only let you overvolt your GPU so far before it hits a hard limit which the factory considers safe and is usually somewhere around 1.15 volts. While this doesn't void my EVGA warranty, you are responsible for your own hardware and should check with your manufacturer to see if it voids theirs. The only way to get around the hard limit is to use a modified BIOS which will void any warranty.

You are seeing different voltages because when a card is idle it'll downclock itself and turn the voltage down to save power. If you're still worried about throwing more voltage at your cards you can go into the nVidia control panel and set the Power Management Mode for World of Warcraft to Prefer maximum performance and see if that helps anything.