Clicking on the right arrow reveals the hardware monitoring graphs, and clicking again brings up the settings section of the utility. These are used to navigate through the menu and settings portion of the utility. Directly across from the priority button is the link button, which allows the power and temperature target to become linked or remain separate.įinally, at bottom of the gauge are two yellow arrows on either side of the Precision X 16 logo. In addition, we have a priority button, which allows the dynamic clock adjustments to be prioritized between the power target and GPU temperature. Precision X will then display our current GPU base clock and the adjusted value, which shows an increase of 238 MHz, and a new GPU base clock of 1218MHz. For example, below we added a +238 MHz offset to our GPU clock speed. Precision X 16 also shows the adjusted values before you apply them. As shown below, you can adjust the settings using the provided sliders or enter the values manually. You can adjust the GPU's power target, GPU temperature target, GPU clock offset, and memory clock offset as well. The middle section of the gauge displays the traditional sliders as seen in most utilities. There are red and white triangle indicators that point to your card's base and boost clock speeds, along with indicators that verify the GPU temperatures in Celsius and in Fahrenheit. Here you can view your current GPU clock speed, GPU temperature, and GPU voltage in real time. Let’s start things off with the top section of the gauge. (Others are welcome to disagree, of course.) We feel that EVGA knocked the design of the user interface out of the park with this version of Precision X, as in my opinion it's the best looking of all the utilities in our round-up. Users will feel as if they are starring down at the gauge cluster of a high performance sports car. When you first launch Precision X, the first thing you'll notice is its high performance inspired design. However, true feature parity would require EVGA to recreate features that Nicolaychuk had originally developed over a number of years, so Precision X 16 still isn’t quite as comprehensive a utility as Precision X 4.2 was, as we will uncover when delving further into the utility. Though it's in an odd spot to create a successor to what was commercially their own program in the first place, EVGA has done their best to retain the majority of the features and options found in their previous RivaTuner based Precision X utility. However due to several bugs and some unresolved issues with Nicolaychuk, EVGA quickly pulled Precision X 15 for further development.Īlthough their in-house development efforts didn’t go as well as initially planned, after a second development cycle EVGA has been able to correct a number of issues and redesign their user interface as well, releasing the revised utility last month as Precision X 16. After discontinuing their development work with RivaTuner’s creator Alexey Nicolaychuk back in July of this year, EVGA released Precision X 15, their first entirely in-house developed version of Precision X. Notable among this article’s features, Precision X 16 is EVGA’s second take on developing an in-house overclocking utility this year. As a result it’s freely downloadable from EVGA’s website and is de-facto compatible with most recent NVIDIA video cards, giving NVIDIA card owners yet another option for a solid second-party developed overclocking utility. However, like other utilities EVGA has not done anything to restrict Precision X to just their video cards.

Kicking things off, like many of the video card manufacturer developed overclocking utilities we’re looking at today, officially Precision X is geared towards EVGA video cards. This latest version of Precision X was introduced with the launch of NVIDIA’s next generation Maxwell video cards, the GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980. Next up is the recently released Precision X 16 utility from EVGA.

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