Newbie GPU overclocker, how does this stand?

[Flibbib]

Hey all, I ran about 8 or 9 overclocks and found one stable for me and was just looking to see if it's decent or not. I got a Gigabyte GTX970 G1, and have pushed it a little but am not sure on safe voltages etc.

 

It's stock core is 1519, and memory is 3505 (Still don't understand memory as some people say 7000 etc).

 

I've got mine stable at 1680 core and 3805 memory. I stopped testing for a bit as I had driver crashes and this was stable so though I'd stop the abuse for the day. It's also sitting at +50mV, is this safe?

 

To sum it up, the core is at +161, memory at +300 and mV at +50. How did it do? And can I push it anymore? I haven't seen any artifacts at any point either, just a clean run through Unigine and a few hours on Furmark, or it just crashes drivers in Unigine straight away. I know I need to test for longer, but that's what I'm going to do tonight with my current overclock.

 

Thanks guys

[UnlimitedTMD]

I believe memory is for some kind of a reason is multiplied by 2, so 3505*2 kinda is 7000

[Enderman]

just set power limit and voltage as high as possible and then increase core/mem clock as much as you can while remaining stable

[scobie56]

just set power limit and voltage as high as possible and then increase core/mem clock as much as you can while remaining stable

 

omg so close to 24,500 posts 

[gunmaster1173]

the base clock of that card is actually 

base:1178

boost:1329

so idk where ur getting your base clock of 1519 from but if you can get your card to 1450-1550 thats a pretty good over clocking and theres no reason to go higher since most 970 cards get overclocked to 1450-1500 and maybe 1500-1550 but hitting 1680 is pretty hard and pretty rare for a gtx 970, u should go over what ur initial clock speed was then see hwat you could over clock it to because 1680 seems pretty rare and your heat temps would be pretty high since uped the voltage too and your card shouldnt pass 90 degrees at max load when you're stress testing your computer

[Flibbib]

the base clock of that card is actually 

base:1178

boost:1329

so idk where ur getting your base clock of 1519 from but if you can get your card to 1450-1550 thats a pretty good over clocking and theres no reason to go higher since most 970 cards get overclocked to 1450-1500 and maybe 1500-1550 but hitting 1680 is pretty hard and pretty rare for a gtx 970, u should go over what ur initial clock speed was then see hwat you could over clock it to because 1680 seems pretty rare and your heat temps would be pretty high since uped the voltage too and your card shouldnt pass 90 degrees at max load when you're stress testing your computer

 

Somethings not adding up then, I got the card, put it in the system, ran unigine straight away as a baseline and it was reporting 1519 Core clock, may of been boost as I think it shows what it's currently at, same as HWmonitor. Card topped out at 71c so somethings not right, I don't even think the best 970 in the world would get what mine is saying according to that. Any ideas?

[gunmaster1173]

um try using msi afterburner and i think evga or asus as their own programs for gpu's that u can have acurrate overclockings because the overclocking doesnt make sense and the baseclock doesnt make sense and if u wanna check ur baseclock look up ur specs for ur gpu