Overclocking project for school

[Luxor]

System:

CPU: i7 4770K

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i

Motherboard: MSI Z87 MPOWER

RAM: Corsair 16GB 2133mhz

Video Card: MSI Lightning GTX 780 

PSU: Corsair AX860

 

Games/Benchmark Programs:

Far Cry 3

Battlefield 4

Assassin's Creed IV 

Unigine Valley

 

So what i'm doing is a science project on how overclocking my graphics card will affect the performance in different games/benchmarking programs. I have a few questions on different things about this project that i'd like help getting an answer too...

 

1. I have FRAPS and understand how to benchmark with it but am not 100% sure on how I should get consistent "areas of benchmarking" and how long i should benchmark in games. With the games I listed does anybody have any idea on areas in the games i should benchmark and how long I should set the benchmark for these areas? To be honest I don't play them very often and don't know what areas have lots of stuff going on. 

 

2. For overclocking I'm using MSI Afterburner. How far can/should I push my card? I know how to find out when the card's at it's tipping point, but am not sure what increments to go up by to find that.  

 

3. To be honest I don't know, 100% what overclocking memory, and boosting the power limit do in terms of performance or how much i should boost them or if I should keep them the same.

 

4. Are there any other (free) programs that I should benchmark with? 

 

5. If there are another tips you could give that you think may help, feel free to shout to me!

 

Any help is greatly appreciated! (:

 

[WillFromGA]

Under the graphics cards forum, there is a topic that is pinned to the top that gives how to overclock certain cards.

[EpicGeekonFire]

You made this a science project? I must try this.

[tryphaa]

1. The campaigns for the game where a scene can be played repeatedly the same way is the best way.

 

2. I would go up by 20mhz at a time, maybe more to start off, then decrease when it gets unstable.

 

3. Increasing the power limit will allow the card to pull more watts. Overclocking memory may/may not give a tangible boost.

 

4. I think Precision X has a frame rate tool thing.

 

5. Make sure the clocks are stable across all games before starting a benches.

[Anthony10]

.... what kind of school allows you to make your science project about overclocking a GPU.....

 

AN AWESOME ONE!!!

[JigglyPufflez]

for the graphics card go up in increments of 13, till you start to see Artifacts or crashes. Then drop down by 5 increments till they go away and it is stable. Pretty much the way to find the sweet spot. For the memory clock of the GPU try 50Mhz increments dropping by 20Mhz, then up by 10 to find the sweet spot. (You can change the increments to further find the sweet spot, the ones I have given you will get you close to the exact sweet spot) For the CPU. See how far you can push the multiplier on stock volts. Then once it starts to crash, up the volts 0.024mv or so and push it further till you get to around 1.3v that would be my personal max voltage. Not sure about Memory sorry. Be sure to always check Temps, you don't want your GPU to be pushing higher than 85C or your CPU to be pushing higher than 85C also. Also you can use benchmark programs such as 3DMARK or Unigine Heaven. Hope this helps!

 

Edit: 

Stock volts of a CPU I think is 1.212v? Correct me if I am wrong<<<

Once it starts to crash up the volts till it is stable, and if you wish you can see how much further you can push it with the extra voltage.**

[Luxor]

Under the graphics cards forum, there is a topic that is pinned to the top that gives how to overclock certain cards.

I don't think mie's there.. Not that I can see..

[Luxor]

You made this a science project? I must try this.

AHA YES!