MSI 1050 TI LP overclocking?

[bigfensteve]

Does anyone know the best settings to over clock this at v1.5 should I go higher ect.  What are your settings? 

[Zando_]

You should push clocks until you're unstable, then drop them by 15-25Mhz and re-test, if you get crashing in some games then drop them a bit further. That'll be the best your card can do, on a 1050 Ti you'll be choked by wattage and voltage limits before you hit a clock limit, the 1050s are locked down tight. No one can give you exact numbers because most AIB cards start at different clocks to begin with, and even on the same model card, different individual GPUs are capable of different clocks (this is called the silicon lottery). 

[Mark Kaine]

On 2/14/2024 at 8:34 PM, Zando_ said:

You should push clocks until you're unstable, then drop them by 15-25Mhz and re-test, if you get crashing in some games then drop them a bit further. That'll be the best your card can do, on a 1050 Ti you'll be choked by wattage and voltage limits before you hit a clock limit, the 1050s are locked down tight. No one can give you exact numbers because most AIB cards start at different clocks to begin with, and even on the same model card, different individual GPUs are capable of different clocks (this is called the silicon lottery). 

i had no problems overclocking my 1050ti.

 

but i never touched the voltage 

 

it has a 6pin power connector,  so power never was an issue 

 

[Mark Kaine]

On 2/14/2024 at 7:28 PM, bigfensteve said:

Does anyone know the best settings to over clock this at v1.5 should I go higher ect.  What are your settings? 

its a low profile card, changing voltage makes no sense you'll just make it run hotter..

 

just add frequency in 25hz steps until your unstable instead, then lower it accordingly so its stable.  

[Zando_]

1 hour ago, Mark Kaine said:

i had no problems overclocking my 1050ti.

 

but i never touched the voltage 

I didn't mean that it had problems, Nvidia just does not allow a higher TDP so you will hit voltage and wattage limits before you hit clock limits. I didn't mention thermals though, on an LP card that could be a concern.

1 hour ago, Mark Kaine said:

it has a 6pin power connector,  so power never was an issue

Doesn't mean much. I've had the 1050 and 1050 Ti from EVGA with the dual fan cooler and 6-pin, and the single-fan slot power only ones. I don't recall any difference in OC performance. The 6-pin would hypothetically let you go above the 75W the PCIe slot can provide, but then you'll hit the voltage cap, so it doesn't matter.

[Mark Kaine]

26 minutes ago, Zando_ said:

I didn't mean that it had problems, Nvidia just does not allow a higher TDP so you will hit voltage and wattage limits before you hit clock limits. I didn't mention thermals though, on an LP card that could be a concern.

Doesn't mean much. I've had the 1050 and 1050 Ti from EVGA with the dual fan cooler and 6-pin, and the single-fan slot power only ones. I don't recall any difference in OC performance. The 6-pin would hypothetically let you go above the 75W the PCIe slot can provide, but then you'll hit the voltage cap, so it doesn't matter.

yeah i always thought the additional 6pin is just a thing for a bit more headroom, but im not sure it actually ever used more than 75w...

 

thing is in my experience it overclocks like any other card, 5-10% performance gain... pretty much useless in many cases, and yes even though it had good cooling (msi gaming x) it got around 70c sometimes (kinda hotter than my 3070 lol <-- which is undervolted tbf)

 

 

ps: well actually...no idea... gpuz doesn't say wattage (it does with my 3070)

 

but yeah.... it didn't do too badly...

 

 

didn't run into any limits either apparently