The ASUS Matrix Platinum is a powerful graphics card that can be overclocked to achieve high performance levels. However, unlocking its full potential requires some technical expertise and specialized knowledge.

Luckily, this ASUS Matrix Platinum does have an LN2 overclocking mode which does unlock voltage control on the card. The problem is it's not that straightforward to unlock there is a little dip switch that makes you switch from standard mode to LN2 mode but unfortunately that doesn't do anything without modification because they don't want anybody to just flip the switch and then take down the power grid in your local area.

So, you do actually need to do some soldering to the card on the front there are two little pads which you need to short in order to activate the LN2 mode. Now it's not even as simple as that there's also a tiny little resistor that you need to remove to stop the card from sending like 1.8 volts to the memory and just killing the graphics card.

Now I do want to reiterate this resistor is minuscule and it's just sandwiched in between a bunch of other minuscule resistors so just desoldering and removing that is pretty terrifying but I'm a badass so we are gonna do that today. So, I used a tiny bit of wire to bridge the gap and then yeah the soldering worked okay. It looks a little bit like I hurt the PCB a bit but I think it's gonna be okay.

When it came to removing the resistor this was pretty terrifying and well I ended up getting it off but I'm not quite sure how well that went so let's see if the graphics card still works. Now we should have unlocked voltage control on our ASUS Matrix Platinum. The problem is it didn't really work that way. So, if you use GPU Tweak it makes you think that you can go up all the way to 1.8 volts but if you apply anything higher than 1.212 volts it just doesn't do anything.

It it doesn't take now I tried multiple different bios and I tried all kinds of stuff and I just couldn't get it working and then I did some more research and it seems there's another step to it. You also need to do a VGA hot wire mod which basically uses these uh voltage control points on the front of the card to solder to either a compatible Republic of Gamer's motherboard or like an overclocking terminal thing so that you can have actual hardware control of the voltages on the card on like a separate PCB.

And I don't have any of those and through the entire process of researching how to actually unlock voltage control on the card people just kind of tangentially mentioned the VGA hotwire thing and there's very little direct information on how to do any of this stuff. I did still want to ice cool the aio to get lower temperatures and see how much that helped but I have unfortunately run out of time so let me know in the comment section below if you know how to get complete control of the voltage on this card without having to actually do a VGA hot wire mod.

Or let me know if you know where I can get one of those PCBs that should supposedly come with this card for complete voltage control because I do still want to take this card to the limit uh I soldered it you know like I wanna I wanna I wanna reap the benefits of that now.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday we're gonna get pretty close to some chuck norris level overclocking it's not quite chuck norris overclocking but there's a soldering iron involved so it's it's close enough for me now last week i had a look at the most majestic graphics card i think i've ever seen it's the asus gtx 780 ti matrix platinum which is a crazy graphics card designed to be the ultimate overclocking card the problem was when i tried to overclock it in that video it didn't go very well so today we're going to strap some stuff to things we're going to flash new bios's and then soldering is going to happen to see what the maximum overclock is we can get it again didn't go very well but we'll get into that a bit later speaking of all the graphics cards if you want to see a comparison between the 960 1060 and 1660 i check out the omnia attack video that i've linked below the results are actually pretty interesting bear in mind the video is in portuguese but there are subtitles for it now before we get into the various stages of overclocking we need to re-establish a baseline because i'm going to have to do this in like an open air test bed situation so i'm gonna use a different cpu than i used for the benchmarks in the previous video so for this one i'm gonna use a 1700x overclocked to 3.9 gigahertz and 16 gigs of ram at 3 000 megahertz now when it comes to the stock bios that comes on the card you don't really have any voltage control the max voltage that you can get into the card is 1.2 volts on the gpu core now when that's the voltage that you're running you can get about 1150 megahertz on the core which is up from the stock core frequency of 1071 megahertz i also overclocked the memory from 3500 megahertz to 3850 megahertz which is where it's going to be sitting for the remainder of the tests and then when you play battlefield 5 you get this result which you know it's it's it's a several year old graphics card so it's not amazing compared to modern cards but it's a good baseline for us to get started the next step in our overclocking journey is to flash a new bios onto the card so that we can push a little bit more voltage to the core and then hopefully not set fire to my beautiful new set this is supposedly a fairly easy process you just use nv flash you find a modified version of the bios and then you do nv flash things to get the bios onto the card the problem was though the newest version of nv flash doesn't play nicely with this several year old graphics card so i actually had to use an old version of nvflash which then worked perfectly fine after flashing the new bios onto the card i can get a whopping 1.212 volts to the gpu as opposed to 1.2 it's not a massive jump but it's a little bit better now with the air cooler when i actually overclock it with the new voltage i can get 1171 megahertz as opposed to eleven 1150 again this seems to be a very incremental process but we get a little bit better performance with battlefield 5 with this extra clock speed at this point we're definitely running into some thermal limitations here i don't want to do anything to the card that we can get more voltage into the chip just to have it spontaneously combust because of the cooler not being able to handle it so we're gonna have to get rid of that air cooler and do something a little bit more effective unfortunately i don't have an ln2 pot and some liquid nitrogen lying around so that's unfortunately not going to happen in today's video but i do have an aio that i can strap to this beast and then maybe we can do some things to the aio to make it go even colder now this is a little bit of a precarious process um you kind of have to lead them through places and then pull tight and use multiple zip ties attached to each other to attach the cooler to the card but basically it's kind of worked here we go we've got a cooler very professionally attached to the matrix platinum now the problem with this configuration is that if i have the card standing in its normal orientation gravity is going to be a bit of a problem because it's going to remove contact between the cold plate and the gpu so i've actually had to take the card out of the normal slot use a pci express extender dongle thing so that i can lie the card flat down so the gravity goes from being an enemy to being a pretty good friend in this situation when under load we're hitting about 50c which is down about 12 degrees from the 62c that we were getting with the air cooler it's not a massive difference but hopefully it'll give us a bit more overclocking headroom now without doing any more voltage modification the overclock that we can get with the aio at this lower temperature is a whole 1261 megahertz which is a pretty big jump over the 1171 megahertz of of the stock configuration when it comes to gaming performance we get an extra one average frame per second um yeah so we're not getting a lot more performance but we're getting a higher core clock we're getting closer to having exciting overclocking happen now that we have better cooling we need more power luckily this asus matrix platinum does have an ln2 overclocking mode which does unlock voltage control on the card the problem is it's not that straightforward to unlock there is a little dip switch that makes you switch from standard mode to ln2 mode but unfortunately that doesn't do anything without modification because they don't want anybody to just flip the switch push 1.6 volts to their card and then take down the power grid in your local area so you do actually need to do some soldering to the card on the front there are two little pads which you need to short in order to activate the ln2 mode now it's not even as simple as that there's also a tiny little resistor that you need to remove to stop the card from sending like 1.8 volts to the memory and just killing the graphics card now i do want to reiterate this resistor is minuscule and it's just sandwiched in between a bunch of other minuscule resistors so just desoldering and removing that is is pretty terrifying but i'm a badass so we are gonna do that today so i used a tiny bit of wire to to bridge the gap and then yeah the soldering worked okay it looks a little bit like i hurt the pcb a bit but i i think it's gonna be okay and then when it came to removing the resistor this was pretty terrifying and well i i ended up getting it off but i'm i'm i'm not quite sure how well that went so let's see if the graphics card still works so now we should have unlocked voltage control on our asus matrix platinum the problem is it didn't really work that way so if you use gpu tweak it makes you think that you can go up all the way to 1.8 volts but if you apply anything higher than 1.212 volts it just doesn't do anything it it doesn't take now i tried multiple different bios's and i tried all kinds of stuff and i just couldn't get it working and then i did some more research and it seems there's another step to it you also need to do a vga hot wire mod which basically uses these uh voltage control points on the front of the card to solder to either a compatible republic of gamer's motherboard or like an overclocking terminal thing so that you can have actual hardware control of the voltages on the card on like a separate pcb and i don't have any of those and through the entire process of researching how to actually unlock voltage control on the card people just kind of tangentially mentioned the vga hotwire thing and there's very little direct information on how to do any of this stuff i did still want to ice cool the aio to get lower temperatures and see how much that helped but i have unfortunately run out of time so let me know in the comment section below if you know how to get complete control of the voltage on this card without having to actually do a vga hot wire mod um or let me know if you know where i can get one of those pcbs that should supposedly come with this card for complete voltage control because i do still want to take this card to the limit uh i soldered it you know like i wanna i wanna i wanna reap the benefits of that now i've just got a slightly molested asus gtx780ti matrix platinum i think my first real attempt at chuck norris overclocking should definitely be with the gt710 i'm kind of thinking i should get my hands on one of those evga e power boards and then just that card with power just to see what happens so to sum up everything that's happened in this very successful video i've managed to take my max overclock from 1150 megahertz all the way up to 1261 megahertz which gave us about 2 fps more performance so yeah don't say that this wasn't a waste of time so with that thank you very much for watching another video of me failing to do something that i'm clearly too incompetent to do so if you enjoyed the video like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one check out the stream later today and until the next videotoday we're gonna get pretty close to some chuck norris level overclocking it's not quite chuck norris overclocking but there's a soldering iron involved so it's it's close enough for me now last week i had a look at the most majestic graphics card i think i've ever seen it's the asus gtx 780 ti matrix platinum which is a crazy graphics card designed to be the ultimate overclocking card the problem was when i tried to overclock it in that video it didn't go very well so today we're going to strap some stuff to things we're going to flash new bios's and then soldering is going to happen to see what the maximum overclock is we can get it again didn't go very well but we'll get into that a bit later speaking of all the graphics cards if you want to see a comparison between the 960 1060 and 1660 i check out the omnia attack video that i've linked below the results are actually pretty interesting bear in mind the video is in portuguese but there are subtitles for it now before we get into the various stages of overclocking we need to re-establish a baseline because i'm going to have to do this in like an open air test bed situation so i'm gonna use a different cpu than i used for the benchmarks in the previous video so for this one i'm gonna use a 1700x overclocked to 3.9 gigahertz and 16 gigs of ram at 3 000 megahertz now when it comes to the stock bios that comes on the card you don't really have any voltage control the max voltage that you can get into the card is 1.2 volts on the gpu core now when that's the voltage that you're running you can get about 1150 megahertz on the core which is up from the stock core frequency of 1071 megahertz i also overclocked the memory from 3500 megahertz to 3850 megahertz which is where it's going to be sitting for the remainder of the tests and then when you play battlefield 5 you get this result which you know it's it's it's a several year old graphics card so it's not amazing compared to modern cards but it's a good baseline for us to get started the next step in our overclocking journey is to flash a new bios onto the card so that we can push a little bit more voltage to the core and then hopefully not set fire to my beautiful new set this is supposedly a fairly easy process you just use nv flash you find a modified version of the bios and then you do nv flash things to get the bios onto the card the problem was though the newest version of nv flash doesn't play nicely with this several year old graphics card so i actually had to use an old version of nvflash which then worked perfectly fine after flashing the new bios onto the card i can get a whopping 1.212 volts to the gpu as opposed to 1.2 it's not a massive jump but it's a little bit better now with the air cooler when i actually overclock it with the new voltage i can get 1171 megahertz as opposed to eleven 1150 again this seems to be a very incremental process but we get a little bit better performance with battlefield 5 with this extra clock speed at this point we're definitely running into some thermal limitations here i don't want to do anything to the card that we can get more voltage into the chip just to have it spontaneously combust because of the cooler not being able to handle it so we're gonna have to get rid of that air cooler and do something a little bit more effective unfortunately i don't have an ln2 pot and some liquid nitrogen lying around so that's unfortunately not going to happen in today's video but i do have an aio that i can strap to this beast and then maybe we can do some things to the aio to make it go even colder now this is a little bit of a precarious process um you kind of have to lead them through places and then pull tight and use multiple zip ties attached to each other to attach the cooler to the card but basically it's kind of worked here we go we've got a cooler very professionally attached to the matrix platinum now the problem with this configuration is that if i have the card standing in its normal orientation gravity is going to be a bit of a problem because it's going to remove contact between the cold plate and the gpu so i've actually had to take the card out of the normal slot use a pci express extender dongle thing so that i can lie the card flat down so the gravity goes from being an enemy to being a pretty good friend in this situation when under load we're hitting about 50c which is down about 12 degrees from the 62c that we were getting with the air cooler it's not a massive difference but hopefully it'll give us a bit more overclocking headroom now without doing any more voltage modification the overclock that we can get with the aio at this lower temperature is a whole 1261 megahertz which is a pretty big jump over the 1171 megahertz of of the stock configuration when it comes to gaming performance we get an extra one average frame per second um yeah so we're not getting a lot more performance but we're getting a higher core clock we're getting closer to having exciting overclocking happen now that we have better cooling we need more power luckily this asus matrix platinum does have an ln2 overclocking mode which does unlock voltage control on the card the problem is it's not that straightforward to unlock there is a little dip switch that makes you switch from standard mode to ln2 mode but unfortunately that doesn't do anything without modification because they don't want anybody to just flip the switch push 1.6 volts to their card and then take down the power grid in your local area so you do actually need to do some soldering to the card on the front there are two little pads which you need to short in order to activate the ln2 mode now it's not even as simple as that there's also a tiny little resistor that you need to remove to stop the card from sending like 1.8 volts to the memory and just killing the graphics card now i do want to reiterate this resistor is minuscule and it's just sandwiched in between a bunch of other minuscule resistors so just desoldering and removing that is is pretty terrifying but i'm a badass so we are gonna do that today so i used a tiny bit of wire to to bridge the gap and then yeah the soldering worked okay it looks a little bit like i hurt the pcb a bit but i i think it's gonna be okay and then when it came to removing the resistor this was pretty terrifying and well i i ended up getting it off but i'm i'm i'm not quite sure how well that went so let's see if the graphics card still works so now we should have unlocked voltage control on our asus matrix platinum the problem is it didn't really work that way so if you use gpu tweak it makes you think that you can go up all the way to 1.8 volts but if you apply anything higher than 1.212 volts it just doesn't do anything it it doesn't take now i tried multiple different bios's and i tried all kinds of stuff and i just couldn't get it working and then i did some more research and it seems there's another step to it you also need to do a vga hot wire mod which basically uses these uh voltage control points on the front of the card to solder to either a compatible republic of gamer's motherboard or like an overclocking terminal thing so that you can have actual hardware control of the voltages on the card on like a separate pcb and i don't have any of those and through the entire process of researching how to actually unlock voltage control on the card people just kind of tangentially mentioned the vga hotwire thing and there's very little direct information on how to do any of this stuff i did still want to ice cool the aio to get lower temperatures and see how much that helped but i have unfortunately run out of time so let me know in the comment section below if you know how to get complete control of the voltage on this card without having to actually do a vga hot wire mod um or let me know if you know where i can get one of those pcbs that should supposedly come with this card for complete voltage control because i do still want to take this card to the limit uh i soldered it you know like i wanna i wanna i wanna reap the benefits of that now i've just got a slightly molested asus gtx780ti matrix platinum i think my first real attempt at chuck norris overclocking should definitely be with the gt710 i'm kind of thinking i should get my hands on one of those evga e power boards and then just that card with power just to see what happens so to sum up everything that's happened in this very successful video i've managed to take my max overclock from 1150 megahertz all the way up to 1261 megahertz which gave us about 2 fps more performance so yeah don't say that this wasn't a waste of time so with that thank you very much for watching another video of me failing to do something that i'm clearly too incompetent to do so if you enjoyed the video like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one check out the stream later today and until the next video