GTX 970 Owners Club

[tomaatvk]

14 minutes ago, loony979 said:

ok so i did the tutorial down to a tee ,went back into windows and here i am What's next i guess it worked ? (P.S.) THAT'S A LOUD BEEP it makes when it asks you lol.

What's next (i did watch jayztwocents vid on BIOS flashing. but he mentions a little bit of coding to do for MSI .

Also my MSI is still saying the same stuff:

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Yeah, you do have to enable some extra voltage settings in msi afterburner if you want to set the voltages through afterburner. I personally set the exact overvolt and overclocks through the BIOS so I don't know how to unlock those settings but you could use this guide I guess: http://www.overclock.net/t/1398725/unlock-afterburner-limits-on-lots-of-cards-some-with-llc-one-tool-for-all-ab-versions

However, I would advise you to first check the BIOS if it functions propperly by running some stresstests without overclocking.

[loony979]

6 minutes ago, tomaatvk said:

However, I would advise you to first check the BIOS if it functions propperly by running some stresstests without overclocking.

ok Without overclocking i got this.

Heaven Valley =

FPS:	58.4
Score:	2444
Min FPS:	32.5
Max FPS:	105.3

[Vellinious]

5 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

well im running my 4690K at 4.7Ghz lol i guess thats a huge part, also what would be a better benchmark then? i have furmark too, is that any better?

Don't use furmark...it's a heat machine.  That's about all it's good for.  Use Heaven, Valley or Firestrike.

You need to download GPUz, and have it open to the sensors tab.  Watch the perf cap reason line, it'll tell you if your GPU is hitting the power limit perf cap or not.  Or, any perf cap for that matter.  "PerfCap Reason" line is the bottom line, it outlines the performance cap for your card.  

This is what a power limit perf cap looks like.  Notice how when the green pops up on the perfcap reason line, the core clock drops a little bit?  That's a power limit perf cap.  The card is trying to pull too much power, so it clocks the core down to get back under it.



This is what it should look like.  No power limit perf cap.  The core clock stays steady all the way across.

[ConnerArkell]

I have a problem with overclocking my 970  g1 gaming. For some reason anytime I try to push the card any further from it's stock clock, any form of game or benchmark will crash. Is it possible that this is happening because of my CPU (Core I5 4460)? Or is it possible because of my cheap 650w power supply? 

[Dabombinable]

2 minutes ago, ConnerArkell said:

I have a problem with overclocking my 970  g1 gaming. For some reason anytime I try to push the card any further from it's stock clock, any form of game or benchmark will crash. Is it possible that this is happening because of my CPU (Core I5 4460)? Or is it possible because of my cheap 650w power supply? 

Post a screen shot of the settings, and my GTX 970 G1 Gaming with my 4790K on a 650W PSU has no problems, so it won't be the PSU (I have a Corsair VS650-low quality and overrpiced but it at least meets Australian safety standards).

[Bananasplit_00]

29 minutes ago, Vellinious said:

Don't use furmark...it's a heat machine.  That's about all it's good for.  Use Heaven, Valley or Firestrike.

You need to download GPUz, and have it open to the sensors tab.  Watch the perf cap reason line, it'll tell you if your GPU is hitting the power limit perf cap or not.  Or, any perf cap for that matter.  "PerfCap Reason" line is the bottom line, it outlines the performance cap for your card.  

This is what a power limit perf cap looks like.  Notice how when the green pops up on the perfcap reason line, the core clock drops a little bit?  That's a power limit perf cap.  The card is trying to pull too much power, so it clocks the core down to get back under it.



This is what it should look like.  No power limit perf cap.  The core clock stays steady all the way across.
 

ok so im right now getting voltage limit caped, so i raise my mVs and it should do better possiably? not getting any power draw problems at all

[Dabombinable]

31 minutes ago, Vellinious said:

Don't use furmark...it's a heat machine.  That's about all it's good for.  Use Heaven, Valley or Firestrike.
 

Furmark is actually good for burning in new TIM from what I've found. Although I do pity those who try to solder the heatsink onto their graphics card's GPU.

[loony979]

Any know the settings for msi afterburner and how to code it so i can put the voltage to 1.3v

Also save it thanks. i think this is nearly all done for me .

[Vellinious]

23 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

ok so im right now getting voltage limit caped, so i raise my mVs and it should do better possiably? not getting any power draw problems at all

It might.  As long as you keep the card cool.  Maxwell will boost higher, the cooler you keep it.  So, with air cooling, you'll need to balance that...create a custom fan curve and that'll help.

The most you'll likely get out of the stock bios is 1.256v, maybe 1.262v, so....go crazy.  There's nothing in that, that's going to hurt that GPU...as long as you can control the temps....

[Vellinious]

14 minutes ago, loony979 said:

Any know the settings for msi afterburner and how to code it so i can put the voltage to 1.3v

Also save it thanks. i think this is nearly all done for me .

The voltage will be locked in the bios....has nothing to do with afterburner.

[Bananasplit_00]

Ok so i got a new OC stabile now  updated drivers to 359.06 and now this is my overcloc

 

core: 1660Mhz

Memory: 3655Mhz

 

this is my new Valley score:

 

[Vellinious]

10 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

Ok so i got a new OC stabile now  updated drivers to 359.06 and now this is my overcloc

 

core: 1660Mhz

Memory: 3655Mhz

 

this is my new Valley score:

 

 

Don't read the clocks from the benchmarks.  Read them from GPUz.  I can pretty much guarantee you're not running 1660 on the core with that score.

[Bananasplit_00]

5 minutes ago, Vellinious said:

Don't read the clocks from the benchmarks.  Read them from GPUz.  I can pretty much guarantee you're not running 1660 on the core with that score.

dosent matter anyway, it didnt manage more then 5min of CS:GO anyway  

[Vellinious]

lol, yeah....you'll have to find an overclock that will work for your games.  Benchmark clocks will be a LOT different.  I ran a daily clock at 1550 / 2000, but could bench as high as 1671 / 2210.

[Bananasplit_00]

15 minutes ago, Vellinious said:

Don't read the clocks from the benchmarks.  Read them from GPUz.  I can pretty much guarantee you're not running 1660 on the core with that score.

Ok dialed it back so now this is the speeds im getting as MAX values in GPUz

core: 1507Mhz

memory: 1851.4

 

does that sound better to you? way lower then what Valley told me

[Vellinious]

1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

Ok dialed it back so now this is the speeds im getting as MAX values in GPUz

core: 1507Mhz

memory: 1851.4

 

does that sound better to you? way lower then what Valley told me

Yeah, the benchmarks very rarely read the clocks correctly.

[Bananasplit_00]

3 minutes ago, Vellinious said:

Yeah, the benchmarks very rarely read the clocks correctly.

ok il keep that in mind for the future  

[Benji_w]

Damn, I need to get this acrylic tubing bent and installed so I can get back to benching!!! 

[loony979]

ok now that i got the new bios in done what thee tutorial says to do.

What is next ?

[Vellinious]

17 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

 

 

3 hours ago, loony979 said:

ok now that i got the new bios in done what thee tutorial says to do.

What is next ?

What bios version is that?  And...where did you get it?

 

[Purplehazeffc]

10 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

dosent matter anyway, it didnt manage more then 5min of CS:GO anyway  

 

10 hours ago, Vellinious said:

lol, yeah....you'll have to find an overclock that will work for your games.  Benchmark clocks will be a LOT different.  I ran a daily clock at 1550 / 2000, but could bench as high as 1671 / 2210.

I run mine at a daily 24/7 of 1605 / 2000 with no problems at all on the 1.275 bios.
Have not had any crashes in anything as of yet. Temps stay around the 50c when playing something like GTA V

[Vellinious]

Congrats.  Good card

[Benji_w]

33 minutes ago, Purplehazeffc said:

 

I run mine at a daily 24/7 of 1605 / 2000 with no problems at all on the 1.275 bios.
Have not had any crashes in anything as of yet. Temps stay around the 50c when playing something like GTA V

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[SkilledRebuilds]

My G1 970 was hitting 81*c with 1.3v but didnt scale at all.

1525/1935 on stock+.87mv with 71*c max,..., AND 1.275/1.3 makes no change to high clock stability

Back to stock for me, not that I mind, good performance and low temps.

/Lucky enough to not get any whine (cept those thousandFPS scenarios)

Happy to do any comparisons if people want.

[Dabombinable]

4 hours ago, Benji_w said:

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I'd need a 240mm rad to see similar clocks since my 970 puts out so much damn heat and is a voltage whore (it also goes to 112% power usage when playing an game that puts it close to 100% load and its overclocked to 1500MHz).