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So anyone who follows me knows I am currently overclocking the shit out of my 980 and I am looking to water cool it but it is artifacting like a strip on my screen at 1570MHz and I was wondering if putting a water cooler on it (reducing GPU temps) will reduce artifacts?

 

Thanks.

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It's possible, maybe.

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So anyone who follows me knows I am currently overclocking the shit out of my 980 and I am looking to water cool it but it is artifacting like a strip on my screen at 1570MHz and I was wondering if putting a water cooler on it (reducing GPU temps) will reduce artifacts?

 

Thanks.

Possibly, you may also be artifact because you're overclocking to the extreme. What variant of the card are you using?

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Possibly, you may also be artifact because you're overclocking to the extreme. What variant of the card are you using?

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That may be part of it, it doesn't have the beefed up power delivery / cooling solution that custom cards have which would limit your ability to overclock and chances are you've hit your max overclock before you being to see much worse artifacting. To be safe I'd tone back your OC to the point where you don't see any artifacts and then once you have a better cooling solution you can continue to push your card further.

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That may be part of it, it doesn't have the beefed up power delivery / cooling solution that custom cards have which would limit your ability to overclock and chances are you've hit your max before you being to see much worse artifacting. To be safe I'd tone back your OC to the point where you don't see any artifacts and then once you have a better cooling solution you can continue to push your card further.

Yeah I was going to dowclock at least until I get a water cooler but I don't want to get a water cooler for nothing.

 

I wanna see if I should water cool it or trade it for a custom card.

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Yeah I was going to dowclock at least until I get a water cooler but I don't want to get a water cooler for nothing.

 

I wanna see if I should water cool it or trade it for a custom card.

Yeah my old gtx 260 would artifact and stutter past 85*C, then I set a fan curve and left the overclocks exactly where they were, and it stopped. 

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Yeah I was going to dowclock at least until I get a water cooler but I don't want to get a water cooler for nothing.

 

I wanna see if I should water cool it or trade it for a custom card.

Honestly unless your system is already water cooled it's just gonna be a pain in the ass. I'd try and get something like the Gigabyte G1 Gaming Edition.

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Yeah my old gtx 260 would artifact and stutter past 85*C, then I set a fan curve and left the overclocks exactly where they were, and it stopped. 

Oooo some first hand experience!

 

Lemme try taking off my side panel and ramping up all speeds.

 

Honestly unless your system is already water cooled it's just gonna be a pain in the ass. I'd try and get something like the Gigabyte G1 Gaming Edition.

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I kept my temps under 60c and reached higher stables AND reduced artifacts so looks like i'm water cooling..

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So anyone who follows me knows I am currently overclocking the shit out of my 980 and I am looking to water cool it but it is artifacting like a strip on my screen at 1570MHz and I was wondering if putting a water cooler on it (reducing GPU temps) will reduce artifacts?

 

Thanks.

 

yes. my 980ti (reference) without artefacts = 1480mhz @ 63 degrees (100% fan speed), 1440mhz @ 84 degrees (about as loud as a 290x)

 

This is MOSTLY to do with GPUboost2.0 reducing core voltage as temps increase...

 

overvolted with GPUboost disabled and watercooled I get 1510mhz with no artefacts

 

so in short, yes, cooler temps = higher stable overclocks (on Nvidia cards)

 

but also, BIOS flash to remove GPUboost2.0 devolt will also achieve this (card will be hotter and louder)

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