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Overclocking The MSI Gaming 4G 970

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I wanted to overclock the MSI version of GTX 970 and I wanted help what to increase, what to decrease, which program to use, what does each feature do, what is the maximum OC and stuff like that. 

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I would use MSI Afterburner: http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm

 

Slowly increase the clocks and voltage (only increase voltage if you encounter instability but not over 1.3v) and stress test the overclock using Unigine Valley/Heaven: http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/download-unigine-heaven-benchmark,4.html and http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/unigine-valley-benchmark-download,1.html

 

My G1 Gaming cards have a maximum overclock of ~1530 mhz on the GPU clock.

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I would use MSI Afterburner: http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm

 

Slowly increase the clocks and voltage and stress test the overclock using Unigine Valley/Heaven: http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/download-unigine-heaven-benchmark,4.html and http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/unigine-valley-benchmark-download,1.html

 

 

But in this video the description said that

 

 

"In this scenario, we have an MSI GTX 970 Gaming with a +185MHz core clock boost, and a 500MHz RAM overclock. This gives performance around or slightly ahead of the stock GTX 980 in most games"

 

So they did not increase the voltage, or did they increase the voltage and not mention it?

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But in this video the description said that

 

 

"In this scenario, we have an MSI GTX 970 Gaming with a +185MHz core clock boost, and a 500MHz RAM overclock. This gives performance around or slightly ahead of the stock GTX 980 in most games"

 

So they did not increase the voltage, or did they increase the voltage and not mention it?

Just edited my post.

 

You DO NOT have to increase the voltage, only if you want to do extreme overclocking.

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Just edited my post.

 

You DO NOT have to increase the voltage, only if you want to do extreme overclocking.

 Do you think what he did is extreme overclocking?

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 Do you think what he did is extreme overclocking?

No not really.  What he did was a pretty simple overclock.

 

He just went from the MSI GTX 970's base boost clock of 1279mhz to 1464mhz after the +185mhz overclock.

 

I overclocked a bit more than he did and I didn't have to increase the voltage.  Though I did get some instability in games after 1430mhz.

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No not really.  What he did was a pretty simple overclock.

 

He just went from the MSI GTX 970's base boost clock of 1279mhz to 1464mhz after the +185mhz overclock.

 

I overclocked a bit more than he did and I didn't have to increase the voltage.  Though I did get some instability in games after 1430mhz.

Oh ok 

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Oh ok 

Just don't go for anything insane for your first overclock.  Start by just going slow and testing with valley every time you go up by a certain amount; I go up +50 on GPU clock and +75-100 on the MEM clock each time I test and just increase it slowly from there until you get artifacts/instability in Unigine Heaven/Valley).

 

Once you get artifacts/instability you have likely reached the cards limit.

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Just don't go for anything insane for your first overclock.  Start by just going slow and testing with valley every time you go up by a certain amount; I go up +50 on GPU clock and +75-100 on the MEM clock each time I test and just increase it slowly from there until you get artifacts/instability in Unigine Heaven/Valley).

 

Once you get artifacts/instability you have likely reached the cards limit.

How do I get it back to normal ?

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How do I get it back to normal ?

Just go into Afterburner and switch the clocks back to +0.

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