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I use and recommend Accelero Xtreme III. Never goes up 48°

This^

The Accelero Xtreme is suppose to work with the factory VRAM and VRM heatsink as well.

Has the evga classified bios been enhanced for more voltage than 1.5v?

I don't believe it has publicly, but Kingpin has one that allows 1.8v I do believe.

Apparently the latest batch of cards are using Elpida memory modules, instead of the Samsung ones that got used initially. Vbios versions 80.10.3A.00.xx introduces support for those new memory modules. The Elpida memory is not supported in the earlier vbios versions, that's most likely why 780s from recent batches are having serious issues with the older vbios versions (80.10.37.00.xx / 80.10.36.00.xx).

I say it again, you can safely use the "3A" version on any card, including those from the first batches. The only thing that is not advisable is to use a "36" or "37" vbios on a card that got delivered with a "3A" version, it will only result in crashes and stability issues.

The modified vbios most likely won't make a noticeable difference when it comes to the memory frequency.

However it seems that cards which have the Elpida memory modules on the board can't overclock the memory as high as the cards that use Samsung modules, at least that's what it seems so far from looking reports from different users. (Thanks @ eagle*23* for pointing this out).

In terms of how well it enables a card to overclock, its doubtful, but you could always flash one and then the other and compare.

As pharma said, I have a Classy and I hope the modified bios helps with my current issue. Either way, I would rather be running with a custom Classified bios instead of a custom normal 780 bios.

Yes, great bios. Used it exclusively when I had my Titan.

So is the classified OC edition bios better than the normal TI bios?