Hi, guys!
Justin here with a small question.
It's my first time doing overclocking and after some intensive weeks of research (done this summer) I decided that is time to try it out.
So. I've got a gtx 1060 gigabyte g1 gaming and oc'ed it using evga precision x. I didn't touch the memory speed yet, only the core clock. Now, I found out that at +160mhz it crashes in some games (I did the testing on heaven and it still worked but when I opened Rotr it crashed instantly). So I decided to leave it at +155mhz.
I did all this in a day(I know that overclocking takes even more time) and, in the evening I left it for 2 hours on heaven at +155mhz.
Here comes the part that intrigued me. It didn't crash, however after 10-15 minutes the gpu clock dropped from 2152(which was supposed to be at) to 2139 mhz. After 5 or 10 minutes it dropped to 2126 MHz and remained here for 1 hour and a half so I stopped the test running.
I think you see where I'm going with this. Is this ok/normal to happen? Since games don't crash (only tested for gta and Rotr, didn't have time for more) I thought it was. It doesn't look like a stable overclock (but I have no experience so that's why I'm here).
I have to say that the volts are at maximum (1.093 as that's the highest for Pascal architecture) and the temperature remained constant at 64-65°C so I don't think this is what causes the drops in the clock. Although, when the core clock drops, the voltage does too. So it's like
2152 MHz - 1.093v
2139 MHz - 1.084v
2126 MHz - 1.071v (I don't remember this one exactly but I know it is .07)
Long text, I know. But I'm a beginner so I considered giving all the information available. If you guys could give me your thoughts and advices, I will be grateful. Thanks in advance!