Gigabyte gtx780 windforce OC

[Wano97]

Sometimes when I'm playing a game (WoW for example) It doesn't use 100% of it's clock speed, and just sits at around 40-50 fps, but sometimes I just reach 100% and still sit at 40-50 fps. after all I just want to overclock my gtx780 windforce. It stays at 41 degrees under full load. I'm afraid to overclock my GPU, I want to use EVGA Precision tho. I changed my clock offset to around 130MHz, and mem clock offset to around 230? Whenever I do that my screen goes black for 5-8 seconds, but when I changed it to those clock speeds I was gaming too. And I got like less than 1 fps. The second time my PC just froze. So I'm afraid I kill my GPU, I didn't adjust the voltages yet! Does anyone have some stable settings? Or any steps, Like what should I do first etc

[CoolBeans]

WoW is a terribly optimized game, so that could be it

[Shd0w2]

WoW is a terribly optimized game, so that could be it

Yeahppers

[Wano97]

WoW is a terribly optimized game, so that could be it

Probably, but still, any info/advice? I really do not want to adjust it without researching more on it

[Ryan Leech]

Raising clock speed will not kill a chip, raising voltage to the MAX on the other hand, will kill a chip.

[Wano97]

It's not that easy to kill a graphics card. Are you updated to the latest driver?

Yeah everything is updated

[Wano97]

Raising clock speed will not kill a chip, raising voltage to the MAX on the other hand, will kill a chip.

Didn't nvidia limit this though?

[Ryan Leech]

Didn't nvidia limit this though?

  Gigabyte have locked the voltage down to a very safe level. EVGA unlocks their cards to allow higher overclocks, but they are still quite conservative on their voltage limits too.

[Wano97]

Nvidia and  Gigabyte have locked the voltage down to a very safe level. EVGA unlocks their cards to allow higher overclocks, but they are still quite conservative on their voltage limits too.

Yeah well I'm using a windforce 780 so that should be safe enough. Will the voltage kill the chip when I don't change my clock offset, but just raise the voltage to max?

[Ryan Leech]

Yeah well I'm using a windforce 780 so that should be safe enough. Will the voltage kill the chip when I don't change my clock offset, but just raise the voltage to max?

Anything below 1.3v is safe. Even at 1.3v, it would take about a year for the chip to die.

[AnotherTechGuy]

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[Wano97]

You should be getting 200+ frames

That's impossible, I get 90+ frames in some areas, with everything set to max. But I'm using vsync. And around 40 in populated areas 

[AnotherTechGuy]

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[AnotherTechGuy]

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[Wano97]

   http://gyazo.com/c3d135efb60ba714399a1aed06fab9d8

 

@Wano1997, 192, close enough

 

 

Anything below 1.3v is safe. Even at 1.3v, it would take about a year for the chip to die.

 

 

World Record: Galaxy GTX 780 HOF Overclocked to 1.85 GHz

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/GTX-780-Overclock-3DMark-LN2-Record,23231.html

 

 

WoW is a terribly optimized game, so that could be it

Any idea why every benchmarking tool crashes on me? This rig is brand new. I tried using the Valley benchmark, Heaven benchmark, 3dmark and evga oc scanner. CPU stress tests do fine though

[Wano97]

   http://gyazo.com/c3d135efb60ba714399a1aed06fab9d8

 

@Wano1997, 192, close enough

Yeah looking at the sky... what GPU is that?

[AnotherTechGuy]

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[Maslofski]

 But I'm using vsync

 

ever tried turning it off?

[Bluuz]

Sometimes when I'm playing a game (WoW for example) It doesn't use 100% of it's clock speed, and just sits at around 40-50 fps, but sometimes I just reach 100% and still sit at 40-50 fps. after all I just want to overclock my gtx780 windforce. It stays at 41 degrees under full load. I'm afraid to overclock my GPU, I want to use EVGA Precision tho. I changed my clock offset to around 130MHz, and mem clock offset to around 230? Whenever I do that my screen goes black for 5-8 seconds, but when I changed it to those clock speeds I was gaming too. And I got like less than 1 fps. The second time my PC just froze. So I'm afraid I kill my GPU, I didn't adjust the voltages yet! Does anyone have some stable settings? Or any steps, Like what should I do first etc

When you get the black screen it means your overclock was too high. Back off a bit on the core clock.

[Wano97]

ever tried turning it off?

Yeah but that is useless, i dont even reach 60fps in orgrimmar, but lately im nearly getting 60, even when theres so much people

[Maslofski]

what about the PCI-E slot? are you using the the recommended one? whats your CPU and motherboard?