First time GPU overclock (GTX 760)

[kleisinger]

Curious if could get some advice on my first GPU over clock 

 

It's going to be on an EVGA GTX 760

my case has a lot of fans also two 120mm on the front one 120mm on the back and one 200mm on the top.

 

I'm curious as to what setting i should run in MSI afterburner i should start at.

 

I'm aware i should only adjust one setting at a time and then run a benchmark to stress test it and see if it crashes or not, so I'm using the heaven benchmark, just curiious on what kind of settings i should be aiming at

 

also curious as to what kind of temperature within afterburner would be kind of a safe max temp

 

[shadowbyte]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=EVGA+GTX+760+overclocking+reccomendations

[TheArmChairGuru]

 

 

 

[Lord_Karango17]

What are the in game clocks at stock? I used to run 2 of theose cards, and mine ran 1200 mhz on the core stock, and I was only able to get them up to 1250mhz before it crashed.

 

If only 1 card was enabled, it was stable up till 1270mhz, but I'm not really sure why. All cards are diferent, so you might have a good card, and might eb able to overclock to 1300mhz.

 

If I were you, I would set the core to around 1220mhz, and work up in increments of 10mhz, and test in unigen valley, or firestrike for a few mins to see if its stable. After it crashes, try upping the voltage to 1212 Mv, and seeing if you get more stability (the 12mv increase wont harm the card, or increase temps by much)

[connorpiper]

I was able to get both of my GTX 760s up to 1357MHz with lots of heat. But no stability issues. 
I would suggest starting at 1200MHz and then go up from there. Your GPU should not go over 80c. 

When you hit that, your clock speeds may decrease. 

[Lord_Karango17]

1 hour ago, connorpiper said:

I was able to get both of my GTX 760s up to 1357MHz with lots of heat. But no stability issues. 
I would suggest starting at 1200MHz and then go up from there. Your GPU should not go over 80c. 

When you hit that, your clock speeds may decrease. 

Oh jesus. Was that on the stock bios?

[connorpiper]

1 minute ago, Lord_Karango17 said:

Oh jesus. Was that on the stock bios?

Yes. With two EVGA ACX cards. (Reference board)

[Lord_Karango17]

1 hour ago, connorpiper said:

Yes. With two EVGA ACX cards. (Reference board)

Damn... I had the acx versions too, but didnt get into bios modding before I sold them and got the 780ti...

 

Having those run at 1300mhz+ must have pumped out some great scores...

[connorpiper]

Just now, Lord_Karango17 said:

Damn... I had the acx versions too, but didnt get into bios modding before I sold them and got the 780ti...

 

Having those run at 1300mhz+ must have pumped out some great scores...

Better than any air cooled GTX 980 in Valley. 

[Lord_Karango17]

1 hour ago, connorpiper said:

Better than any air cooled GTX 980 in Valley. 

Yeah, I only just beat my old 760 sli scores with my 780ti after a couple of custom bios' and a full cover waterblock... If I had the 4gb versions, I probably would not have bothered changing them, because sli scaling worked surprisingly well for me...

[connorpiper]

Just now, Lord_Karango17 said:

Yeah, I only just beat my old 760 sli scores with my 780ti after a couple of custom bios' and a full cover waterblock... If I had the 4gb versions, I probably would not have bothered changing them, because sli scaling worked surprisingly well for me...

Yea, the 2GB held me back a great deal. Now I am running out of 4GB at 1440p. So a 980ti is going to be my next card. 

[kleisinger]

15 minutes ago, Lord_Karango17 said:

What are the in game clocks at stock? I used to run 2 of theose cards, and mine ran 1200 mhz on the core stock, and I was only able to get them up to 1250mhz before it crashed.

 

If only 1 card was enabled, it was stable up till 1270mhz, but I'm not really sure why. All cards are diferent, so you might have a good card, and might eb able to overclock to 1300mhz.

 

If I were you, I would set the core to around 1220mhz, and work up in increments of 10mhz, and test in unigen valley, or firestrike for a few mins to see if its stable. After it crashes, try upping the voltage to 1212 Mv, and seeing if you get more stability (the 12mv increase wont harm the card, or increase temps by much)

using MSI AB when i start them out at 1220mhz i dont actually put 1220 into the core clock category right? it just adds on to whatever my stock clock is from in there?

 

also how do i find out what my stock clock is?

[Lord_Karango17]

1 hour ago, kleisinger said:

using MSI AB when i start them out at 1220mhz i dont actually put 1220 into the core clock category right? it just adds on to whatever my stock clock is from in there?

 

also how do i find out what my stock clock is?

Overclocking takes a bit of math now on nvidia cards, as you dont type in the max clock speeds you want the cards to reach anymore, but its an ofset, so you need to know what clock your cards are running at right now.

 

Run a somewhat intensive program in the background, and have msi afterburner running in the background to check you actual in game clock speeds. For example, the boost clock speed reported on gpuz for my card is 1206mhz, however in game it runs at 1256mhz.