Overclock and heat gtx 690

[LegalNation]

Just a smal status i wanted to share.

 

Fist of all, sorry for the bad english. :-)

 

Currently i got a hold of a gtx 690, and had some seriuse heat problems in my Define R4 case. 

After some fiddling around and reserach, i made some adjustment. fist up: remove all the disk drive cages(i meen ALL for them.) so that the two 140mm fans are free.

two: Mounted a 120mm side fan, to blow directly at the 690.

Tree: two 120 Exhaust fan at the top, (cooling down my Swiftech h220-x aswell)

Four: one 120mm Rear Exhust fan. 

All of this pushed my card at ca. 37c idle and stable at 65-68 under load.

 

Now, after i was done with this i wanted to overclock the gpu, not much but a bit. And here is where the issues occured.

At 135% Power Target, 50% clock offset and 150%mem offset(just to take a exsample) the games crashed and the nvidia driver reset it self.

I did some digg'in around the web and come a cross an forum that said: "Set Maximum power in the Nvidia control panel". This work like a charm, Now i have 135% Power Target, 75% clock offset and 300% mem clock offset. Ill see if i can push it higher. I also see now the gpu is holding stedy at 1012mn and 914Mhz in idle with 48c(stable 68c at load), yess it a bit higher. But still, better the crashing.

 

now question time.

 

Have any of you come a cross this issue with a Gtx 690 before?

How far do you think i can push the gtx?

 

 

OBS! OBS!

 

After aplying the Maximum power in control panel, you have to restart the system to take affect.

[IAcKI]

That seems a big clock offset.

[LegalNation]

It dos?

 

shall i reduse it to 50 maybe?

[Coaxialgamer]

1 hour ago, LegalNation said:

Just a smal status i wanted to share.

 

Fist of all, sorry for the bad english. :-)

 

Currently i got a hold of a gtx 690, and had some seriuse heat problems in my Define R4 case. 

After some fiddling around and reserach, i made some adjustment. fist up: remove all the disk drive cages(i meen ALL for them.) so that the two 140mm fans are free.

two: Mounted a 120mm side fan, to blow directly at the 690.

Tree: two 120 Exhaust fan at the top, (cooling down my Swiftech h220-x aswell)

Four: one 120mm Rear Exhust fan. 

All of this pushed my card at ca. 37c idle and stable at 65-68 under load.

 

Now, after i was done with this i wanted to overclock the gpu, not much but a bit. And here is where the issues occured.

At 135% Power Target, 50% clock offset and 150%mem offset(just to take a exsample) the games crashed and the nvidia driver reset it self.

I did some digg'in around the web and come a cross an forum that said: "Set Maximum power in the Nvidia control panel". This work like a charm, Now i have 135% Power Target, 75% clock offset and 300% mem clock offset. Ill see if i can push it higher. I also see now the gpu is holding stedy at 1012mn and 914Mhz in idle with 48c(stable 68c at load), yess it a bit higher. But still, better the crashing.

 

now question time.

 

Have any of you come a cross this issue with a Gtx 690 before?

How far do you think i can push the gtx?

 

 

OBS! OBS!

 

After aplying the Maximum power in control panel, you have to restart the system to take affect.

Don't know much about overclocking the 690, but how old is the card? 

Have you tried dusting it out and replacing thermal paste?

[LegalNation]

Yess, have dusted it of, but have not aplyed new paste. the temp is not the issue doh. It's the nvidia driver that restets on overclock, It happens if the card is on adaptive mode in the control panel. It's so wired.

[LegalNation]

Anyone else how has experience from overclocking GTX 690's?