I went and bought the EVGA GTX 1070 SC from Microcenter. Card is pretty sick. Get yours here.
KBoost is a feature from EVGA thats exclusive to their cards, that forces the card to run in the boost clock speeds all the time which is a great fix for when games make cards go in and out of boost clock, causing glitches or frame drop. I love this feature, mainly because I am super OCD when it comes to that.
The photo shown is the new version of EVGA’s Precision XOC – the version of their OCing software thats supposed to be exclusive for the GTX1070/1080.
Here you can see the KBOOST feature in the lower left of the page – http://www.evga.com/precisionxoc/
However, as you can see from my first picture, that is clearly not here.
MSI After Burner also has an option for KBOOST but alas, it was grayed out and disabled.
I found this work around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x230aMQBwxg
I didn’t know that MSI Afterburner and EVGA Precision were essentially the same program. So by just copying a standard 16x Default skin (from the older EVGA Precision x16 – found here: http://www.evga.com/precision/) from EVGA Precision and placing it in the directory as shown in the video, I now am able to use the KBOOST feature as intended.
It really sticks a thorn in my rear that I have to go through all this trouble to get a feature to work that’s suppose to be working already. I wanted to share this with everyone, incase they ran in to the same issue.
Happy boosting everyone.
edit – EVGA thinks there is an issue with my BIOS on the card. They gave me the default BIOS to flash on the card. Will see where it leads us.
