I've had my 1070 Gaming X since launch and just assumed setting the max voltage and power limit would allow me to get the best overclock even with the 1.093v limit. So I've just left it like that since then.

When I saw the thing about undervolting the Vega FE and it running better, I decided to see what my 1070 would do.

I have that driver thing that is supposed to boost performance for the Gaming X cards, not sure if this increases the base voltage.

I turned the voltage all the way down to 0% in MSI AB and was able to get identical clocks as before and it's still using 1.081v(which is normal for firestrike test, it rarely goes all the way to 1.093v).

Do these cards go all the way up to 1.093v even without changing the voltage boost if they have thermal headroom? My temps stay around 40c. Is it the MSI Gaming X performance boost thing?(I forgot what it's called, but it raises the default boost clock)