Gigabyte 960 overclock problems

[Hogger]

I'm trying to overclock my gpu, My fps were going up, as i went up bit by bit with my settings... then it just leveled out and my GPU clock just wimped out and stayed at 500 something MHz. what is happening?

[Marcus Torre DeProspero]

1 minute ago, Hogger said:

I'm trying to overclock my gpu, My fps were going up, as i went up bit by bit with my settings... then it just leveled out and my GPU clock just wimped out and stayed at 500 something MHz. what is happening?

That may be due to a cpu bottleneck that happens a lot when overclocking

[Hogger]

3 minutes ago, Marcus Torre DeProspero said:

That may be due to a cpu bottleneck that happens a lot when overclocking

well that sucks... dies it happen a lot with the fx-8350? because thats what i have

 

[byalexandr]

2 minutes ago, Hogger said:

well that sucks... dies it happen a lot with the fx-8350? because thats what i have

 

What game are you playing that this happens in? And yes, the 8350 bottlenecks quite a lot of times.

[Hogger]

Just now, byalexandr said:

What game are you playing that this happens in? And yes, the 8350 bottlenecks quite a lot of times.

I play GTAV, Arkham Knight, and Metro mainly, I'm doing benchmarks like Furmark and testing stability with MSI kombustor.

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, Hogger said:

I play GTAV, Arkham Knight, and Metro mainly, I'm doing benchmarks like Furmark and testing stability with MSI kombustor.

Try different tests, my clockspeed just wont go above 1050mhz on msi kombuster and furmark even though my OC was higher.

Use different tests like Unigine Valley/Heaven or use real gaming tests with the Rivatuner Overlay

[Marcus Torre DeProspero]

6 minutes ago, Hogger said:

I play GTAV, Arkham Knight, and Metro mainly, I'm doing benchmarks like Furmark and testing stability with MSI kombustor.

Ok so a gtx 960 has an auto matic underclock program that slows the gpu on purpose when idling. I doubt the card is at 500MHZ when gaming because I got mine up to 1532Mhz while overcloking. Whatever you are doing to the card you might want to stop and rethink your option maybe just stop overclocking completely

[Hogger]

4 minutes ago, Marcus Torre DeProspero said:

Ok so a gtx 960 has an auto matic underclock program that slows the gpu on purpose when idling. I doubt the card is at 500MHZ when gaming because I got mine up to 1532Mhz while overcloking. Whatever you are doing to the card you might want to stop and rethink your option maybe just stop overclocking completely

okay, yea, i'm getting a new cpu next month anyways, i might as well just wait for it

[Marcus Torre DeProspero]

Just now, Hogger said:

okay, yea, i'm getting a new cpu next month anyways, i might as well just wait for it

The cpu won't change much.