Possible to change LED color without PrecisionX software? (2024)

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2016/09/04 18:19:03 (permalink)

I'm just wondering if there's any way to change the RGB color of the LEDs on my 1070 without running PrecisionX?

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NVIDIA Software Maybe

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I don't think nVidia's LED Visualizer has a color palette to work with, just some FX options. I suppose your wanting to avoid
PXOC because of the initial pop up box you get asking for your details. Discussions are in progress trying to get clarification
on that, so it may take some time. Unfortunately, PXOC is the only way to specifically customize EVGA's LEDs at this point.

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No, currently there is not a way. Led visualizer only does white shades for the cards with single color.

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Nope.

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NucleusX
I don't think nVidia's LED Visualizer has a color palette to work with, just some FX options. I suppose your wanting to avoid
PXOC because of the initial pop up box you get asking for your details. Discussions are in progress trying to get clarification
on that, so it may take some time. Unfortunately, PXOC is the only way to specifically customize EVGA's LEDs at this point.

Nope, I don't care about that. I already entered my details. I'm just not overclocking at the moment so if I don't need something else running I'd rather avoid it.

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Use it once to set your LED's and then close it.

I use MSI Afterburner for a few reasons.
1. First program I used when I got into OC'ing so i'm familiar with it.
2. I use RiviaTuner for remote monitoring on my phone/tablet and it integrates with Afterburner nicely.
3. The MSI Android app that I use to monitor/alter my clock rates, temps, power and etc. is really simple and easy to use. It also connects to my PC through my network.
4. The Precision X Android app uses Bluetooth for connection instead of my network. My desktop doesn't have Bluetooth.
4(b). Precision X has some quirks also.

Therefore I installed and opened EVGA Precision X just to set my LED's to orange on my EVGA 1080 FTW and then uninstalled it. Once you set the color you want you can then close/uninstall Precision X and the LED's color will remain that way indefinitely. FYI, I use Static On. I don't know about the other options.

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91gtabird
Use it once to set your LED's and then close it.

I use MSI Afterburner for a few reasons.
1. First program I used when I got into OC'ing so i'm familiar with it.
2. I use RiviaTuner for remote monitoring on my phone/tablet and it integrates with Afterburner nicely.
3. The MSI Android app that I use to monitor/alter my clock rates, temps, power and etc. is really simple and easy to use. It also connects to my PC through my network.
4. The Precision X Android app uses Bluetooth for connection instead of my network. My desktop doesn't have Bluetooth.
4(b). Precision X has some quirks also.

Therefore I installed and opened EVGA Precision X just to set my LED's to orange on my EVGA 1080 FTW and then uninstalled it. Once you set the color you want you can then close/uninstall Precision X and the LED's color will remain that way indefinitely. FYI, I use Static On. I don't know about the other options.

The LED color only stays that way if you have a FTW card or higher. If you have a model lower than FTW, you have to load the color profile with Precision every time you restart the computer; otherwise the LEDs just use default color and behavior every time the computer starts/restarts.

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You don't get color on lesser cards than the FTW. So the advice is to change the color with precision X OC. The latest version saves the correct info to bios so it won't change once set. Led visualizer can only set the brightness if it matters to you. Led visualizer is used for evga cards other than FTW, Classified and Hybrid.

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ty_ger07

91gtabird
Use it once to set your LED's and then close it.

I use MSI Afterburner for a few reasons.
1. First program I used when I got into OC'ing so i'm familiar with it.
2. I use RiviaTuner for remote monitoring on my phone/tablet and it integrates with Afterburner nicely.
3. The MSI Android app that I use to monitor/alter my clock rates, temps, power and etc. is really simple and easy to use. It also connects to my PC through my network.
4. The Precision X Android app uses Bluetooth for connection instead of my network. My desktop doesn't have Bluetooth.
4(b). Precision X has some quirks also.

Therefore I installed and opened EVGA Precision X just to set my LED's to orange on my EVGA 1080 FTW and then uninstalled it. Once you set the color you want you can then close/uninstall Precision X and the LED's color will remain that way indefinitely. FYI, I use Static On. I don't know about the other options.

The LED color only stays that way if you have a FTW card or higher. If you have a model lower than FTW, you have to load the color profile with Precision every time you restart the computer; otherwise the LEDs just use default color and behavior every time the computer starts/restarts.

I'm not sure about that. On my TITAN and 980Ti the LED stays at whatever you set it at as far as a 'static' setting. In other words, the brightness. If you use any of the effects like color, breathing or load based effects, then you need to have the program running. The same as with Nvidia's LED Visualizer.

post edited by HeavyHemi - 2016/09/05 12:00:38

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Scarlet-Tech
No, currently there is not a way. Led visualizer only does white shades for the cards with single color.

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ipkha
You don't get color on lesser cards than the FTW. So the advice is to change the color with precision X OC. The latest version saves the correct info to bios so it won't change once set. Led visualizer can only set the brightness if it matters to you. Led visualizer is used for evga cards other than FTW, Classified and Hybrid.

Color me uninformed that I did not know that the lesser cards didn't have tri-color LEDs. Well, if it is true that only the FTW and up have tri-color LEDs, then we must assume that the OP has FTW and up and therefore must assume that setting it once and uninstalling the software will be a good solution for the OP.

HeavyHemi

ty_ger07

91gtabird
Use it once to set your LED's and then close it.

I use MSI Afterburner for a few reasons.
1. First program I used when I got into OC'ing so i'm familiar with it.
2. I use RiviaTuner for remote monitoring on my phone/tablet and it integrates with Afterburner nicely.
3. The MSI Android app that I use to monitor/alter my clock rates, temps, power and etc. is really simple and easy to use. It also connects to my PC through my network.
4. The Precision X Android app uses Bluetooth for connection instead of my network. My desktop doesn't have Bluetooth.
4(b). Precision X has some quirks also.

Therefore I installed and opened EVGA Precision X just to set my LED's to orange on my EVGA 1080 FTW and then uninstalled it. Once you set the color you want you can then close/uninstall Precision X and the LED's color will remain that way indefinitely. FYI, I use Static On. I don't know about the other options.

The LED color only stays that way if you have a FTW card or higher. If you have a model lower than FTW, you have to load the color profile with Precision every time you restart the computer; otherwise the LEDs just use default color and behavior every time the computer starts/restarts.

I'm not sure about that. On my TITAN and 980Ti the LED stays at whatever you set it at as far as a 'static' setting. In other words, the brightness. If you use any of the effects like color, breathing or load based effects, then you need to have the program running. The same as with Nvidia's LED Visualizer.

According to EVGA_Techsomeone in a previous thread, he has tested and confirmed that with the 10 series cards, FTW and higher save the LED profile to one of the BIOS EEPROM chips and therefore software is not needed to reset the profile at every boot.

Now, since you are talking about the 9 series and TITAN, that may be a different situation regarding which cards do or do not have the feature. From my understanding, EVGA's choice to save the LED profile to the card's EEPROM chip is very dependent on whether or not the card has 2 EEPROM ("dual BIOS") chips to fall back on in case of corruption of one EEPROM during the LED profile save operation. So, if a card below FTW in the 9 series had dual BIOS, it may also save the LED profile to one of the EEPROM chips.

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According to EVGA_Jacob, the newer version of X OC saves to the bios somewhere. Don't know if it matters whether dual bios makes the difference. I do think it kept the same setup when I switched to the slave bios, so either it writes it to both bios chips or somewhere shared between them. I would think there us some sort of led controller on the board somewhere, there could be some storage for that. But any definitive answer would have to be made by one the evga folk.

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ipkha
According to EVGA_Jacob, the newer version of X OC saves to the bios somewhere. Don't know if it matters whether dual bios makes the difference. I do think it kept the same setup when I switched to the slave bios, so either it writes it to both bios chips or somewhere shared between them. I would think there us some sort of led controller on the board somewhere, there could be some storage for that. But any definitive answer would have to be made by one the evga folk.

Like I said, according to one of the EVGA techs rather recently, 10 series dual BIOS cards (and only dual BIOS cards) save their LED profile to whichever BIOS EEPROM chip is selected. The LED controller does not have its own EEPROM chip and instead can read your desire from whichever EEPROM chip is selected. In the 10 series, it was confirmed that all dual BIOS cards (FTW and up) have this feature. Before the 10 series, I have to assume that all dual BIOS cards also have this feature, but someone would have to test and confirm if it is indeed all dual BIOS cards of every series, or only certain dual BIOS cards in certain series. If your card does not have dual BIOS, no matter which series it is in, the LED profile must be loaded every time the computer is started/restarted. Of course EVGA could decide to take the risk to enable this feature on non-dual BIOS cards in the future, but they would risk corrupting BIOS chips on cards with only one EEPROM with no EEPROM to fall back on and thus potentially brick peoples cards. Warranty concerns would make me believe that they will not decide to take such risk.

post edited by ty_ger07 - 2016/09/05 13:08:48

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Ok, that would be pointless to test as only ftw and up have dual bios chips. Since they rely on the nvidia software to change the white leds.

Anyway, the answer to the question posed is to use X OC to set colors and then remove X OC until such time as changing the color is desired again.