[HELP] Overclocking problem!

[CHarrisMedia]

So i've got a GTX 770 2GB Windforce GPU, it's a pretty awesome GPU however i've decided to overclock it because it stays relatively cool inside my case and the extra performance could help (Also it's got 3 fricken fans to cool this beast of a card). Now here is the problem, i'm new to overclocking and have seen the video about what to consider etc by Linus and other YouTube professionals but recently found this post showing the "optimal" settings for my specific card when it comes to overclocking. I decided to copy these settings (I think) and the GPU was running flawlessly all of yesterday until my recent battlefield games. I noticed random freezes correlating to the graph shown by MSI Afterburner. I'm mainly seeking help to ensure i've overclocked it right and if so what other recommendations do you have to possibly improve performance? Thanks.

 

 

System specs:

CPU: i5-3570K.

 

GPU: Gigabyte 770 Windforce

 

PSU: Corsair CXM 750W (Modular).

 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H.

 

RAM: Corsair XMS3 8GB.

 

Case: Antec P280.

 

OS: Windows 8.1 (Fully updated)

 

My GPU and all other drivers are fully up to date. Any suggestions?

[RelentlessAF]

Not all GPU's will overclock the same, looking at other people overclocks is a good way to get an idea of what your GPU can overclock to however it appears yours isn't as overclockable so you will need to dial down your overclock until those issues no longer occur. You can also use MSI Kombustor to run a stress test on the GPU, just have it run for awhile and come back to check if there is any artifiacting or screen tearing.

[Shd0w2]

You shouldn't do the optimal settings, each is different, it's just the average. Try going up from 50 in tens on the mem, and 5s on the core. Eventually you can make it more than 10 per test, but get used to it.

[Cheese4395]

It looks as if your over clock isn't stable. This happened to me even after I stressed it. I guess battlefield 3 is worse than benchmarks. Anyways you can either turn up the voltage supplied or turn down your clocks. Whichever you're more comfortable with.

[CHarrisMedia]

It looks as if your over clock isn't stable. This happened to me even after I stressed it. I guess battlefield 3 is worse than benchmarks. Anyways you can either turn up the voltage supplied or turn down your clocks. Whichever you're more comfortable with.

I don't mind turning up my Voltage however what would you recommend to start/work with?

[Cheese4395]

Probably 5-10 mV and see if it becomes stable.

[Cheese4395]

I don't mind turning up my Voltage however what would you recommend to start/work with?

Just bump it up by that increment everything you test and see if it becomes stable then ur golden.

[CHarrisMedia]

What about the Shader Clock? Do you suggest changing that?

[Scouten]

What about the Shader Clock? Do you suggest changing that?

on these newer gpu the shader clock essentially no longer exists

[CHarrisMedia]

I think i've found what i'm looking for. I've ran this on Kombuster for about 15 - 20 minutes and no problems. I'll post my settings just incase anybody wants to use them as a guide. Thanks for the help!

 

[TristanK]

Not all GPU's will overclock the same, looking at other people overclocks is a good way to get an idea of what your GPU can overclock to however it appears yours isn't as overclockable so you will need to dial down your overclock until those issues no longer occur. You can also use MSI Kombustor to run a stress test on the GPU, just have it run for awhile and come back to check if there is any artifiacting or screen tearing.

 

Msi kombustor isnt very good at stress testing as far as I m concerned. I used it a few times running for 2 hours and all was fine. Than i tested it with Heaven and Valley and everything crashed. So i suggest you this: dont rely on kombustor use heaven and valley benchmarks too

[TristanK]

 

So i've got a GTX 770 2GB Windforce GPU, it's a pretty awesome GPU however i've decided to overclock it because it stays relatively cool inside my case and the extra performance could help (Also it's got 3 fricken fans to cool this beast of a card). Now here is the problem, i'm new to overclocking and have seen the video about what to consider etc by Linus and other YouTube professionals but recently found this post showing the "optimal" settings for my specific card when it comes to overclocking. I decided to copy these settings (I think) and the GPU was running flawlessly all of yesterday until my recent battlefield games. I noticed random freezes correlating to the graph shown by MSI Afterburner. I'm mainly seeking help to ensure i've overclocked it right and if so what other recommendations do you have to possibly improve performance? Thanks.

 

 

System specs:

CPU: i5-3570K.

 

GPU: Gigabyte 770 Windforce

 

PSU: Corsair CXM 750W (Modular).

 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H.

 

RAM: Corsair XMS3 8GB.

 

Case: Antec P280.

 

OS: Windows 8.1 (Fully updated)

 

My GPU and all other drivers are fully up to date. Any suggestions?

 

I have a 770 too. Well Zotac gtx 770 4GB. I managed to OC gpu clock to 1185 memory 7190 . That was the highest stable OC I could do, temps went up to 83°C at most.

[RelentlessAF]

Msi kombustor isnt very good at stress testing as far as I m concerned. I used it a few times running for 2 hours and all was fine. Than i tested it with Heaven and Valley and everything crashed. So i suggest you this: dont rely on kombustor use heaven and valley benchmarks too

Makes sense, In my experience I've always had bad OC'ing GPU's though so I probably won't get around to using those.

[CHarrisMedia]

Okey, I ran a Unigine Valley test at "Extreme HD" preset and here are my results.

 

 
And here is the log. My frames were limited to 60.

21:35:09 Loading "C:/Program Files (x86)/Unigine/Valley Benchmark 1.0/bin/../data/valley_1.0.cfg"...

21:35:09 Loading "GPUMonitor_x86.dll"...
21:35:09 Loading "dxgi.dll"...
21:35:09 Loading "openal32.dll"...
21:35:09 Set 1920x1080 fullscreen video mode
21:35:11 Set 1.00 gamma value
21:35:11 Unigine engine http://unigine.com/
21:35:11 Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Feb 14 2013 r11294
21:35:11 Features: OpenGL Direct3D9 Direct3D11 OpenAL XAudio2 XPad360 Joystick Flash Editor
21:35:11 App path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Unigine/Valley Benchmark 1.0/bin/
21:35:11 Data path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Unigine/Valley Benchmark 1.0/data/
21:35:11 Save path: C:/Users/******/Valley/
21:35:11
21:35:11 ---- System ----
21:35:11 System: Windows 8 (build 9200) 64bit
21:35:11 CPU: Intel® Core i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz 3392MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 AVX HTT x4
21:35:11 GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 9.18.13.4052 x1
21:35:11 System memory: 4095 MB
21:35:11 Video memory: 2048 MB
21:35:11 Sync threads: 3
21:35:11 Async threads: 4
21:35:11
21:35:11 ---- MathLib ----
21:35:11 Set SSE2 simd processor
21:35:11
21:35:11 ---- Sound ----
21:35:11 Renderer: OpenAL Soft
21:35:11 OpenAL vendor: OpenAL Community
21:35:11 OpenAL renderer: OpenAL Soft
21:35:11 OpenAL version: 1.1 ALSOFT 1.14
21:35:11 Found AL_EXT_LINEAR_DISTANCE
21:35:11 Found AL_EXT_OFFSET
21:35:11 Found ALC_EXT_EFX
21:35:11 Found EFX Filter
21:35:11 Found EFX Reverb
21:35:11 Found EAX Reverb
21:35:11 Found QUAD16 format
21:35:11 Found 51CHN16 format
21:35:11 Found 61CHN16 format
21:35:11 Found 71CHN16 format
21:35:11 Maximum sources: 256
21:35:11 Maximum effect slots: 4
21:35:11 Maximum auxiliary sends: 2
21:35:11
21:35:11 ---- Render ----
21:35:11 Renderer: NVIDIA NV70 (Kepler) 2048MB
21:35:11 Direct3D11 desc: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
21:35:11 Found feature level 11.0
21:35:11 Found compute shader 11.0
21:35:11 Maximum texture size: 16384
21:35:11 Maximum texture units: 16
21:35:11 Maximum texture renders: 8
21:35:11
21:35:11 ---- Physics ----
21:35:11 Physics: Multi-threaded
21:35:11
21:35:11 ---- PathFind ----
21:35:11 PathFind: Multi-threaded
21:35:11
21:35:11 ---- Interpreter ----
21:35:11 Version: 2.52
21:35:11
21:35:11 Loading "valley/unigine.cpp" 42ms
21:35:11 Unigine~# render_restart
21:35:12 Loading "valley/locale/unigine.en" dictionary
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_post.mat" 23 materials 50 shaders 6ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_render.mat" 47 materials 2368 shaders 8ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh.mat" 5 materials 3386 shaders 10ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_lut.mat" 2 materials 1062 shaders 3ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_paint.mat" 2 materials 1158 shaders 4ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_tessellation.mat" 5 materials 3332 shaders 9ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_tessellation_paint.mat" 2 materials 2276 shaders 6ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_triplanar.mat" 1 material 112 shaders 1ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_overlap.mat" 1 material 300 shaders 2ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_terrain.mat" 1 material 813 shaders 3ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_layer.mat" 1 material 84 shaders 1ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_noise.mat" 1 material 106 shaders 2ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_stem.mat" 2 materials 2180 shaders 12ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_wire.mat" 1 material 45 shaders 0ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_terrain.mat" 1 material 1980 shaders 5ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_grass.mat" 2 materials 474 shaders 4ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_particles.mat" 1 material 109 shaders 1ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_billboard.mat" 1 material 51 shaders 1ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_billboards.mat" 2 materials 840 shaders 2ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_volume.mat" 6 materials 53 shaders 5ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_gui.mat" 1 material 82 shaders 0ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_water.mat" 1 material 533 shaders 20ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_sky.mat" 1 material 21 shaders 16ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_decal.mat" 1 material 99 shaders 1ms
21:35:12 Loading "core/properties/unigine.prop" 2 properties 0ms
21:35:12 Unigine Valley Benchmark 1.0 (1.0)
21:35:12 Unigine~# world_load valley/valley
21:35:12 Loading "valley/valley.cpp" 119ms
21:35:13 Loading "valley/valley.mat" 72 materials 1432ms
21:35:13 Loading "valley/sound/sound.prop" 142 properties 1ms
21:35:16 Loading "valley/valley.world" 3793ms
21:38:39 Benchmark running
21:41:48 Benchmark results:
21:41:48 Time: 189.124
21:41:48 Frames: 9148
21:41:48 FPS: 48.3705
21:41:48 Min FPS: 24.5591
21:41:48 Max FPS: 68.3332
21:41:48 Score: 2023.82
21:42:49 Unigine~# quit
21:42:54 Close "openal32.dll"
21:42:55 Close "dxgi.dll"
21:42:55 Memory usage: none
21:42:55 Allocations: none

21:42:55 Shutdown

[FakezZ]

I'd say you've gotten too far on your memory overclock. I mean this card's vram (correct me if I'm wrong) is clocked at 7ghz stock.

[CHarrisMedia]

I'd say you've gotten too far on your memory overclock. I mean this card's vram (correct me if I'm wrong) is clocked at 7ghz stock.

But it's 420. What do you suggest? It seems to work okey like that but I understand your point. I compared it to a friend and it was alot higher.

[FakezZ]

But it's 420. What do you suggest? It seems to work okey like that but I understand your point. I compared it to a friend and it was alot higher.

Remember the silicon lottery... You may have gotten a card that barely makes it to the stock frequencies and is just unstable when overclocked even a little bit