No direct contact cooling on GDDR5 (GTX 1070 Ti)

[menyus420]

Hi!

I recently purchased an ASUS Cerberus 1070 ti, and was playing around with overclocking. With Unigine Valley, i stopped the camera in the forest, and noticed that i incresed fps from 81 to 90 just with a +415 MHz offset on the memory. 

 

But! My consern is that there is no direct contact cooling for the GDDR5 memory modules in this card (on my Gigabyte 1060 it had). But the coolers fin stack is open above the memory modules, so i think there is airflow over them. I cant measure the temperatures of the memory moduels, and wondering is it safe to run the memory overclocked, because the higher temperature may cause faster degradation in them.

 

(i already set a custom frequency voltage curve with stable 1949 MHz core clock on 992mV, droping to around 85-90% TDP)

 

Thanks for your time!

[2SidedPolygon]

As long as things are stable, you should be okay. If you push the overclock to the point that you start noticing unusual dips in performance/crashes, that's when you should dial things back.