MSI Z170 + TU116 ReBAR Supported

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Motherboard model: MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976)
Motherboard chipset: Z170
Graphics card model: GV-N166SGAMING OC-6GD
GPU chipset: TU116
DeviceID (check GPU-Z) GPU PCI VendorID : 10DE:21C4
Secondary DeviceID (check GPU-Z) GPU PCI subsystem IDs : 1458:4014
VRAM size: 6144 MB (6GB)
New BAR1 size (GPU-Z): 8192 MB (8GB)
New BAR1 Total size (nvidia-smi): 8192 MiB
NVIDIA Driver version : 546.17

• This is a great achievement @terminatorul as it marks an unsupported motherboard and unsupported NVIDIA 16 series card supporting ReBAR

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i've gained an extra 131 points in TIME SPY 🥹which is more than you would ever get in overclocking 🥲 i've also increased my PCI EXPRESS by setting 0x0000000080000000 in nvidiaProfileInspector rBAR - Size Limit! on the _GLOBAL_DRIVER_PROFILE (Base Profile) profile

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with my OC the score is so high, i would class time spy as player-able hitting 29fps and no lower but above
https://www.3dmark.com/spy/43876766

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my whole system in timespy under i7 6700k with a 1660 super is ranked so high now, im 9th overall in the leader board

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Video has had lots of views now, over 3000, I see over here issues are flying in 😂

let me know when you have an update that is worth making a new video about, so we can cut down the time it takes to build the rebar module and make the process more automated. More automated would hopefully mean less issues 👍🏻

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I am still going through the video. There is no sound, and the text is difficult to read, despite I chose 1080p60.

The needed settings in UEFI Setup depend whether the motherboard already has ReBAR from the manufacturer. If it does, users should enable ReBAR if it is not the default, before using NvStrapsReBar.exe.

If the motherboard firmware does not have ReBAR implemented from the manufacturer, users need to disable CSM and enable "Above 4G decoding" option (or similar) BEFORE they enable ReBAR using NvStrapsReBar.exe.

There is no mechanism in NvStrapsReBar to prevent the wrong UEFI settings in this case (I still hope to implement something like this in the next commit, but it is not foolproof anyway). I understand from the instructions in ReBarUEFI that you can still get a 1 GiB BAR without 4G decoding option, even 2 GiB BAR sometimes with the right options.

One thing I noticed on video: when you scroll down in UEFI Tool to find the last DXE driver, you never show the end of the list (as if you already know where the last DXE driver is).

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The video looks good otherwise

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Unfortunately the Quality isn’t as good as I used an external catcher Device, so it isn’t as clear, it’s still legible. So I believe I’m good to use what I captured.

I was hoping you wouldn’t say this

If the motherboard firmware does not have ReBAR implemented from the manufacturer, users need to disable CSM and enable "Above 4G decoding" option (or similar) BEFORE they enable ReBAR using NvStrapsReBar.exe.

so I’m either going to need to edit The footage and make it convincing that I did the bios before opening the rebar executable…

I’ll have to add a voice over to correct this :

One thing I noticed on video: when you scroll down in UEFI Tool to find the last DXE driver, you never show the end of the list (as if you already know where the last DXE driver is).
Just the preview I shared above has a whole days worth of edits already lol never ends

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still waiting on my gpu, no word on when i will get it which is causing delays to my video

the 40 series has by far been the worst card ive ever brought

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updated guide can be found at : Resizable BAR for Turring GTX 1600 / RTX 2000 GPUs

I have no Main computer, so could not do voice over. sorry its been so long

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I have located where the uptake of users has come from :

you were mentioned in LTT’s tech linked : https://youtu.be/wKcTLmPYlTk?si=SF3oDAzP2qihntCW