Here is the modded bios for the GTX 460 Hawk if it is of any help. It has voltages unlocked.

You dah man Rick :)

just cuz I have not done it myself.

Can you crank speeds close afterburner reopen it and crank it more?

Heard it somewhere.. I dont 3D ...
specifically on the 460 hawk too...but for non ABX users

AFAIK the only way to crack the frequency limits ( sliders go only up to 100% ) is by re-programming the card's BIOS with higher default freqs.

Thanks BZ... I know you have a lot of experience in this hobby. Are you saying you tried this and it did not work? Or just that it does not on principle?

Would like to know, I have not tried this as a rule on vid cards but never had a 460 Hawk either to try it on. Which is why I think I said I read it...


Would it be uber helpful if it was true? Doubtful on this team ;) :)

It's bulletproof.
Raising the clocks with Afterburner ( on a stock BIOS card ), closing it and re-opening it won't allow you to go any higher than you could go before.

Another reason to go for eVGA eLeet, no clock lims ( unless you think your card can do 2500MHz GPU Core clock that is :D ) and functional voltage control for most cards ( don't know if it works for the GTX 460, only tried it with the 480 ).

If it doesn't, I'd simply raise the voltage with Afterburner or Asus StupidDoctor and then overclock the card with eLeet.

rgr that thanks :)

Are you using the stock eLeet or is there a special unlocked version?

Here's the version I'm using

You change the second ( up to down ) "3D Performance".
Notice that after you apply a clock change, regardless of letting the app run or quitting it, if you want to change the clocks again you have to select the same entry on the drop-down menu, ( 4th selection if I recall correctly ) which shall be "Unknown" instead of 3D Performance now.

This one works like a charm for sure, don't know if the latest stable version on eVGA's website works perfectly, but it should.

Have you guys tried Afterburner 1.6extreme with modded .bat file...???
You gan go as high clocks as you like for mem and core plus it gives you plenty of voltage to play with...
But i don't know if it works with 460 cards af far as voltage is concerned but please try out...

http://www.benchzone.com/Downloads/M....60_Beta_6.rar

Bill if it's not ok with you give me a call to edit it...:)

Thanks a ton crusty! :thumbsup: