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So I currently have a stock EVGA 960 (2gb; 1100 MHZ)

 

The hottest I've seen it get with full load is 45C; so I think I should be fine for an OC. (Correct me if wrong)


What should I OC to?

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So I currently have a stock EVGA 960 (2gb; 1100 MHZ)

 

The hottest I've seen it get with full load is 45C; so I think I should be fine for an OC. (Correct me if wrong)

What should I OC to?

just try it out benching. I reccomend MSI afterburner (yes it works with EVGA cards) and it has kombustor included in the download package to test your "gainings". Just try going up in 50MHz steps. If it gets unstable reduce the clock and do not forget to bumb up the voltage. that is basically about it. The closer you come to the sweet spot the smaller your MHzs steps should be.

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just try it out benching. I reccomend MSI afterburner (yes it works with EVGA cards) and it has kombustor included in the download package to test your "gainings". Just try going up in 50MHz steps. If it gets unstable reduce the clock and do not forget to bumb up the voltage. that is basically about it. The closer you come to the sweet spot the smaller your MHzs steps should be.

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just try it out benching. I reccomend MSI afterburner (yes it works with EVGA cards) and it has kombustor included in the download package to test your "gainings". Just try going up in 50MHz steps. If it gets unstable reduce the clock and do not forget to bumb up the voltage. that is basically about it. The closer you come to the sweet spot the smaller your MHzs steps should be.

How do I test the gainings?

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just try it out benching. I reccomend MSI afterburner (yes it works with EVGA cards) and it has kombustor included in the download package to test your "gainings". Just try going up in 50MHz steps. If it gets unstable reduce the clock and do not forget to bumb up the voltage. that is basically about it. The closer you come to the sweet spot the smaller your MHzs steps should be.

So I was running a stress test on it and bumping the clock up at the same time. Got it to +250 MHZ and got a "TDR" with error 7... What does that mean?

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So I was running a stress test on it and bumping the clock up at the same time. Got it to +250 MHZ and got a "TDR" with error 7... What does that mean?

What to you mean by "TDR"?. If your driver/card/anything afiliated with it crashes it should restart itself. just try to reduce the clock then.

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What to you mean by "TDR"?. If your driver/card/anything afiliated with it crashes it should restart itself. just try to reduce the clock then.

It was a crash of some sorts; not sure what exactly though. Something about time out (according to google). Happened again at +200mhz; I think mine is pretty much at it's limits.

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How do I test the gainings?

your average FPS in your desired enviroment. Can be game or synthetic benchmark. also have alook at the minimum FPS.

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It was a crash of some sorts; not sure what exactly though. Something about time out (according to google). Happened again at +200mhz; I think mine is pretty much at it's limits.

go down to smaller steps like 5MHz steps until you reach 1MHz. In the end you will find you stable clock. Keep in imnd some games don'T like overclocking so if you get crahses try going down or disabeling OC for certain games. Project cars crahses on my to the point were I have to do a hard reset of my PC whne I play it with OC so just look out for crashes and think about where they migth come from. also when it says something about the memroy. think about it. your memory might be clocked to high. If you screen goes black and then it says nvidia ......(version) driver has be restored than your core might be to high..... and so on. These days OC is not as hard naymore. You can't damage things as easy anymore since you can't just bumb up the voltage by 1V acciddentally so just use trial and error to find things out.

(also dont forget to OC your memory - was a bigger impact for me than the core ( core~+5%; memory ~+10% )

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So I was running a stress test on it and bumping the clock up at the same time. Got it to +250 MHZ and got a "TDR" with error 7... What does that mean?

try to bumb clock. then start the test. not while testing.

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/334934-unofficial-ltt-beginners-guide/ (by Minibois) and a few things that will make our community interaction more pleasent:
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