OC'ing GTX 1070 FTW

[Hikkarii]

I plan on overclocking my EVGA Geforce 1070 FTW Graphic card. 

 

Anyone who has or had this mind giving me their settings so I can try copying them? (if that will work) I dont plan on boosting it to the max, but maybe help with a few FPS in games if at all. 

 

Thanks

[YourNewPalAlex]

I think you can find this useful, dont own the card but this is what i found that looked promising. 

[r2724r16]

25 minutes ago, Hikkarii said:

Anyone who has or had this mind giving me their settings so I can try copying them? (if that will work) I dont plan on boosting it to the max, but maybe help with a few FPS in games if at all. 

You can't just copy someone's results. Everyone's GPU is different, and therefore overclocks to different clocks at different voltages. Some GPUs may not overclock at all (like my GT 635 or something), while others overclock really good (like my Strix 970).

 

Here a short overclocking guide (use MSI Afterburner): 

- Increase the core clock by a bit at a time (maybe 25MHz at a time) and same goes for memory.

- Then you stress test your GPU (run Unigine Valley Benchmark) for some time.

- If the application doesn't crash, then your overclock is stable but if Unigine Valley Benchmark crashes, then your overclock isn't stable. 

- If your app crashes, you have two options: either add more voltage or decrease the core/memory clock.

[Cyracus]

start by raising the core in 100 point increments, you'll probably only get +100 but if you're lucky +200 will work, once you crash or get other instability add 50 to your last stable value, keep adjusting in smaller increments until you're happy. For memory do the same. Some games and programs are more stressful than others and will crash with overclocks that run fine in other games or programs, less of an issue if you aren't pushing for the max overclock. Don't worry about voltage causing you problems, Nvidia did a pretty good job of locking voltage down to safe levels

[Hikkarii]

3 hours ago, Cyracus said:

start by raising the core in 100 point increments, you'll probably only get +100 but if you're lucky +200 will work, once you crash or get other instability add 50 to your last stable value, keep adjusting in smaller increments until you're happy. For memory do the same. Some games and programs are more stressful than others and will crash with overclocks that run fine in other games or programs, less of an issue if you aren't pushing for the max overclock. Don't worry about voltage causing you problems, Nvidia did a pretty good job of locking voltage down to safe levels

 

3 hours ago, Geography said:

You can't just copy someone's results. Everyone's GPU is different, and therefore overclocks to different clocks at different voltages. Some GPUs may not overclock at all (like my GT 635 or something), while others overclock really good (like my Strix 970).

 

Here a short overclocking guide (use MSI Afterburner): 

- Increase the core clock by a bit at a time (maybe 25MHz at a time) and same goes for memory.

- Then you stress test your GPU (run Unigine Valley Benchmark) for some time.

- If the application doesn't crash, then your overclock is stable but if Unigine Valley Benchmark crashes, then your overclock isn't stable. 

- If your app crashes, you have two options: either add more voltage or decrease the core/memory clock.

 

3 hours ago, YourNewPalAlex said:

I think you can find this useful, dont own the card but this is what i found that looked promising. 

Hey, thanks for the info. So I learned alot, and I decided to stick with default and just see how far I can go. Seems i can hit 125Mhz (core) and 300Mhz (Memory) and keep stable by running Heaven on extreme. however, I decided to go just 100Mhz on Core which gives me 2100Mhz. However, each time I keep benchmarking, I raise the "memory" core by literally 600+ and its still stable. No crashing, or artifacts. Weird?

[Cyracus]

You can use gpu-z to see if you have samsung or micron memory chips. iirc samsung tends to do +1000 or so micron tends to not like doing more than +500 or so

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