Asus Strix 1070 O8G hitting power limit under Overclock

[Trentonxx]

Hi,

I am tweaking my GTX 1070 using Afterburner (and Kombustor donuts, both GL and VK for artifact testing) but I realize that even with +20% on power limit I still hit my power limit and my cpu core voltage drops down, without any core clock or memory clock OC I found out that at v1.062 it still trigger PL, and 1.043 does not. but when I spike up core clock it goes under 0.9

 

my understanding is that if it's hitting power limit I just lose all benefits of my OC because it's throttling down the power, but I feel kinda limited with these tools, am I missing something?

 

My main focus is to get a better frametime on my Valve Index, as with the current GPU market I can't upgrade my old one but I still want to get some decent framerate on most games (so if any of you have any VR experience feel free to add some tips for it as well)
 

thank you so much!

 

[Jurrunio]

Dont use Furmark and alternatives (including Kombustor), those are too power heavy. 200W max limit should be sufficient for all games without power throttling.

[Heliian]

Go down on the core clock to 100 and up on the memory clock to +500

[Trentonxx]

On 4/22/2021 at 5:35 PM, Jurrunio said:

Dont use Furmark and alternatives (including Kombustor), those are too power heavy. 200W max limit should be sufficient for all games without power throttling.

so I can run something like Valley benchmark in the background while I change the settings and still have accurate results for real-games? good, 200W is +100% power limit?

 

 

On 4/22/2021 at 5:44 PM, Heliian said:

Go down on the core clock to 100 and up on the memory clock to +500

does higher memory clock affect framerates? I tought core clock was more important

[Heliian]

32 minutes ago, Trentonxx said:

32 minutes ago, Trentonxx said:

does higher memory clock affect framerates? I tought core clock was more important

 

Yes but you want the card stable.  You'll have to test it to see how it changes. 

[Jurrunio]

3 hours ago, Trentonxx said:

o I can run something like Valley benchmark in the background while I change the settings and still have accurate results for real-games?

When you're not focused on the benchmark screen it could reduce clock speed to base clock. Make sure you focus back to the benchmark software after changing the settings.

 

3 hours ago, Trentonxx said:

200W is +100% power limit?

200w is max limit for 1070 Strix O8G variant at 120%.