1080ti overclocking issue?

[AverageTechGuy]

Ok, so i went and bought a gigabyte 1080 ti aorus xtreme graphics card. Now obviously as you can see in the title im wanting to overclock it to squeeze as much performance as i can out of this thing. However, anything over 50mhz over stock clock it insta crashes on benchmark testing and games. I'm talking even 51mhz crashes. To me this seems a little low as i have seen other 1080ti's get at least 100mhz over stock to be stable just fine. Is there something im not doing right or something i have to do differently. I am using MSI afterburner to overclock the card. I have the power limit maxed at 150% as well. Would it be worth to try and take the cooler off and redo the thermal paste with a quality paste? im just trying to get this thing to boost over 2ghz consistently. thats all i want lol. 

 

If the info helps the rest of my rig is as follows

Asus z170-AR

Intel 6700K

8GB of ddr4-2400 RAM

Corsair RM-850x power supply. 

[WereCat]

The card already overclocks itself based on the temperature. 

Saying "I can do only +50MHz" is useless information unless we know what clocks you're getting already. 

 

Furthermore, stability of OC hugely depends on the temperatures so you may need to increase your fan speed. 

[vong]

43 minutes ago, AverageTechGuy said:

Ok, so i went and bought a gigabyte 1080 ti aorus xtreme graphics card. Now obviously as you can see in the title im wanting to overclock it to squeeze as much performance as i can out of this thing. However, anything over 50mhz over stock clock it insta crashes on benchmark testing and games. I'm talking even 51mhz crashes. To me this seems a little low as i have seen other 1080ti's get at least 100mhz over stock to be stable just fine. Is there something im not doing right or something i have to do differently. I am using MSI afterburner to overclock the card. I have the power limit maxed at 150% as well. Would it be worth to try and take the cooler off and redo the thermal paste with a quality paste? im just trying to get this thing to boost over 2ghz consistently. thats all i want lol. 

 

If the info helps the rest of my rig is as follows

Asus z170-AR

Intel 6700K

8GB of ddr4-2400 RAM

Corsair RM-850x power supply. 

That card is already maxing itself out so you would get little gains over a 50mhz overclock. Don't compare your card to other 1080ti's because they all have different boost clocks.

[AverageTechGuy]

So as far as temperature the card isnt going above 53C even with the overclock. and as far as the boost clock its going up to 1982Mhz or somewhere around there. I know that is still a really good clock speed and what not for the 1080ti's just for OCD sake i wanted to have it steady over 2000. Also because i know that these GPU's are very capable of going that far. I'm starting to think i just got a poorly binned chip. I'm probably never gonna buy a gigabyte card ever again. Does anyone think that getting a better motherboard would help get more out of the card?