When I do my OC the GPU will stay at 500 mhz.........

[DannyRyu]

What do you think is wrong? no thermal throttling I'm trying to Overclock it and test it in valley but once valley starts the Coreclock just stays at 500 ish.

[Tac127]

sound like its stuck in 2d mode but i could be wrong

[Xyrock]

what card? and what are the stock specs?

[DannyRyu]

what card? and what are the stock specs?

MSI GTX 960 Gaming 4GB .

[DannyRyu]

Just realized could it be because the Nvidia Drivers crahed because my OC was too high initially?

[Xyrock]

MSI GTX 960 Gaming 4GB .

Boost Clock / Base Clock

1304 MHz / 1241 MHz (OC Mode)

1279 MHz / 1216 MHz (Gaming Mode)

1178 MHz / 1127 MHz (Silent Mode)

 

so your Core is staying 500? meaning its underperforming?

[Xyrock]

Just realized could it be because the Nvidia Drivers crahed because my OC was too high initially?

did you put +500 on core without testing it little by little...?

[DannyRyu]

did you put +500 on core without testing it little by little...?

no I did 250 than it crashed than 245 and it crashed and 240 it was fairly stable.

[Tac127]

no I did 250 than it crashed than 245 and it crashed and 240 it was fairly stable.

well thats why

[Monarch]

no I did 250 than it crashed than 245 and it crashed and 240 it was fairly stable.

 

Afaik MSI Afterburner gets stuck at 500 MHz if GPU drivers crash while it's running. Just restart it and it should be fine.

[-iSynthesis]

no I did 250 than it crashed than 245 and it crashed and 240 it was fairly stable.

Had that with my 760; Restarting windows helped, seemed to be something wrong with my drivers so i guess they could've crashed. 

[DannyRyu]

Okay update , Restarting PC fixes it but onto my second question what is the recommended increment when raising voltage? In mV

[Benji_w]

Okay update , Restarting PC fixes it but onto my second question what is the recommended increment when raising voltage? In mV

5-15mhz until you start seeing artifacts or errors then pump up the volts very very slightly.

[Godlygamer23]

5-15mhz until you start seeing artifacts or errors then pump up the volts very very slightly.

In my experience with the 970, it eventually just stopped boosting unless I added voltage.

This is how I did my overclocking on my 970:

• Increase core clock ever so slightly by 10MHz on the slider and run Unigine Heaven. After I deem it stable, increase it by another 10MHz and test again. Eventually, it would stop boosting, so then I would add a little voltage and it would boost higher.

[Benji_w]

 

In my experience with the 970, it eventually just stopped boosting unless I added voltage.

This is how I did my overclocking on my 970:

• Increase core clock ever so slightly by 10MHz on the slider and run Unigine Heaven. After I deem it stable, increase it by another 10MHz and test again. Eventually, it would stop boosting, so then I would add a little voltage and it would boost higher.

 

 

I got to 1.5ghz then started hitting pwr perfcap, so stopped boosting basically because of limits in bios and again anything over 28mV kicked off another perfcap so I've been given a custom bios to test out to try for 1.6ghz.