Is +650 Memory OC Safe For 24/7? GTX 1070

[Emberstone]

Hey there folks. I that, since I no longer have a PC that'll bottleneck this card, it's high time I get to overclocking my FE 1070. After fiddling around with various games and Unigine Valley, I've settled on +200 MHz to the core and +650 to the memory. Any higher than that and I get random driver crashes or artifacts. Temps aren't an issue. With a generous fan curve, it never goes higher than 67 C.

 

However, since I've got a dual-monitor setup and one of them is a 144 Hz display, the GPU never fully downclocks when I'm outside of a game. With my overclock on, the core is around 1100 MHz (not worried about this as Prefer Max Performance mode sits it at 1506 all the time), but my memory never downclocks at all. It would run at 4658 MHz (according to MSI Afterburner) 24/7. That said, even before overclocking the core sat at 924 MHz and the memory was boosted to 4006 MHz due to the dual-monitor setup, and it ran like that 24/7.

 

My question is, is running the memory at 4658 all the time safe? Or is there a way around this so my idle clocks look like I haven't OC'd, and it only boosts that high for games?

[DildorTheDecent]

2 minutes ago, Emberstone said:

 

4658MHz in afterburner is 9316MHz effective. That's mighty. 

 

That's fine to run 24/7. Although keep ab eye out for artifacting. red, blue or green flashes on screen. 

[Emberstone]

2 minutes ago, DildorTheDecent said:

4658MHz in afterburner is 9316MHz effective. That's mighty. 

 

That's fine to run 24/7. Although keep ab eye out for artifacting. red, blue or green flashes on screen. 

Yep, I've been at this for over an hour now looking for various issues. Seems rock solid so far. Silicon lottery winner?

[DildorTheDecent]

Just now, Emberstone said:

Yep, I've been at this for over an hour now looking for various issues. Seems rock solid so far. Silicon lottery winner?

The term "silicon lottery winner" would not apply here. 9.3 is mighty in the sense that it's 1.3ghz oc over the stock frequency. 

 

If you're pulling 9600+ effective on memory then it would be very good imo. 9800+ would be even better. 

 

In the future if you're going to want to claim "silicon lottery winner" you will have to provide screenshots of it running at that clock. 

[Emberstone]

1 minute ago, DildorTheDecent said:

The term "silicon lottery winner" would not apply here. 9.3 is mighty in the sense that it's 1.3ghz oc over the stock frequency. 

 

If you're pulling 9600+ effective on memory then it would be very good imo. 9800+ would be even better. 

 

In the future if you're going to want to claim "silicon lottery winner" you will have to provide screenshots of it running at that clock. 

I was just asking a question; I wasn't claiming anything yet.

 

I was just wondering where this stands if it is indeed stable.

[MilfShake]

11 minutes ago, Emberstone said:

Yep, I've been at this for over an hour now looking for various issues. Seems rock solid so far. Silicon lottery winner?

How fast is core clock? Lottery winner is when it reaches 2.1~2.2Ghz

[Simon771]

My GTX 1070 Founders Edition can handle +750 on memory and +235 on core clock without any problems

And I don't consider that even remotely to be silicon winner.

 

If you get it working at +1000MHz on memory, and 2,2GHz core clock ... now that's a winner.

[Cyracus]

Make sure you test it in games with that memory clock, I can do OVER 9000!!!!!! in benchmarks but playing games I'll get freezing and crashing at even 8200...fortunately memory OCing isn't that big a boost vs my 2050 core clock

[Froody129]

My 1060 on normal GDDR5 is pushing about 4500Mhz 

 

I think this is a pretty good draw, If temps are under 60 it'll run 2170's stable, but ofc that's hard on an Armor OC. 

[Emberstone]

2 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

My GTX 1070 Founders Edition can handle +750 on memory and +235 on core clock without any problems

And I don't consider that even remotely to be silicon winner.

 

If you get it working at +1000MHz on memory, and 2,2GHz core clock ... now that's a winner.

Now that's what I wanted to know. So I've got a middle-of-the-road overclocker.

 

11 minutes ago, MilfShake said:

How fast is core clock? Lottery winner is when it reaches 2.1~2.2Ghz

Looks like it hovers around 2076-2088 while looping Valley. I'll see if I can finagle it to 2100 with a bit more fine-tuning.

 

Anyway, since I've got an answer to my memory OC question in my OP, I'll mark an answer and be done here. Thanks folks.

[Simon771]

1 minute ago, Emberstone said:

Now that's what I wanted to know. So I've got a middle-of-the-road overclocker.

 

Looks like it hovers around 2076-2088 while looping Valley. I'll see if I can finagle it to 2100 with a bit more fine-tuning.

 

Anyway, since I've got an answer to my memory OC question in my OP, I'll mark an answer and be done here. Thanks folks.

Next step is 2101 and after that 2136.

For my daily usage I just set core clock to +200MHz and memory to +500 ... I don't really want to push it to the limits, and difference between +200/500 and 235/800 is very small FPS gain.

[DildorTheDecent]

17 minutes ago, Emberstone said:

I was just asking a question; I wasn't claiming anything yet.

 

I was just wondering where this stands if it is indeed stable.

Honestly if it's stable in games and apps that you run then that's fine. 

 

When everything is sorted just throw down scores in the valley and 3dmark threads just to fill those spreadsheets. 

 

[3 Lions]

I've got my 1070's memory at +550 which gets me 9.104GHz I'll try a +600 later but I already know +650 isn't stable for me. 

[3 Lions]

27 minutes ago, Emberstone said:

Looks like it hovers around 2076-2088 while looping Valley. I'll see if I can finagle it to 2100 with a bit more fine-tuning.

I recommend adding voltage my clocks are around the same, I've added 50% more voltage and it get's me 2088MHz stable it only drops to 2076MHz when the temps hit 76c which it never does anyway. 

[Emberstone]

2 minutes ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

I recommend adding voltage my clocks are around the same, I've added 50% more voltage and it get's me 2088MHz stable it only drops to 2076MHz when the temps hit 76c which it never does anyway. 

I didn't want to mess with voltage. I know I could go higher if I did, but I don't want to seriously fiddle with something I can't replace. As such I'll stick to stock voltages so I don't risk reducing lifespan.

[3 Lions]

Just now, Emberstone said:

I didn't want to mess with voltage. I know I could go higher if I did, but I don't want to seriously fiddle with something I can't replace, so I'll stick to stock voltages so I don't risk reducing lifespan.

Well on Pascal GPU'S when you add voltage you are not actually adding more voltage. Adjusting the voltage on Pascal based GPU'S means how early in the frequency range the voltage will go to it's max setting. Also max out the power target and temperature limit. 

[3 Lions]

1 hour ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

I've got my 1070's memory at +550 which gets me 9.104GHz I'll try a +600 later but I already know +650 isn't stable for me. 

I've added +600 and it's 100% stable this gets me 9216MHz effective (9.216GHz).