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[jjohnthedon1]

Hi guys been messing around with adding volts to my card ( 83 limit from nvdia)

However I couldn't reach any higher clocks from adding voltage and setting power limit to max didn't increase anything either

Only thing that went up was temps by 10 degrees

So Iv turned it all back down and my cards still hit 1500 MHz

Has anyone else had experience with not achieving higher clocks even tho increasing voltage ??

[Godlygamer23]

Moved to Graphics Cards.

[Coaxialgamer]

Hi guys been messing around with adding volts to my card ( 83 limit from nvdia)

However I couldn't reach any higher clocks from adding voltage and setting power limit to max didn't increase anything either

Only thing that went up was temps by 10 degrees

So Iv turned it all back down and my cards still hit 1500 MHz

Has anyone else had experience with not achieving higher clocks even tho increasing voltage ??

Yes. That is called a power wall. Basically, you will not be able to achieve better clocks unless you add a LOT more voltage. Same thing applies to cpus. After a while, adding more voltage doesn't help.

[Vellinious]

Hi guys been messing around with adding volts to my card ( 83 limit from nvdia)

However I couldn't reach any higher clocks from adding voltage and setting power limit to max didn't increase anything either

Only thing that went up was temps by 10 degrees

So Iv turned it all back down and my cards still hit 1500 MHz

Has anyone else had experience with not achieving higher clocks even tho increasing voltage ??

You're likely hitting the power limit perf cap.  Meaning...your card has reached the power limit, and it's throttling the core and voltage to keep it under the power limit that is set in the stock bios.  They're notoriously low in the Maxwell stock bios files.

Download GPuz, and open it up to the sensors tab during your test runs.  Watch the "PerfCap Reason" line.  If you see green there, that's PWR.  You're hitting the power limit.

An example.  Notice how when the green line shows up in the PerfCap Reason line, the clock speed, indicated in the top graph line, how it dips down a little bit?  The red line decreases....that's because the card is power limit throttling.  There are ways around the "power limit throttle", but they require a bios flash to a custom bios file.

Now, this is what a clean run looks like.  Nothing in the PerfCap Reason line, and no drop the core clocks, indicated in the top graph line.