970 overlock

[Butch00]

I have the EVGA GTX 970 SSC with the ACX 2.0 Cooler, does anyone have a stable overclock? (I'm using afterburner)

[Dr_Pleeper]

No, nobody has ever gotten a stable overclock on a 970.

[Amazingasian]

You have to do it yourself.  Not everyones card will overclock the same.  I'd expect around 1450Mhz+ on the core.

[Butch00]

Just now, Amazingasian said:

You have to do it yourself.  Not everyones card will overclock the same.  I'd expect around 1450Mhz+ on the core.

I know that they wont be the same, but I wanted at least some numbers to start out with

[stealth80]

I can get 1500 on mine but they are bios-modded, I run 1418 day to day. Problem with the EVGA is the TDP lock makes it harder to get higher clocks

[scobie56]

im running a 1425 mhz overclock on my 970 strix and its stable

[Butch00]

1 minute ago, stealth80 said:

I can get 1500 on mine but they are bios-modded, I run 1418 day to day. Problem with the EVGA is the TDP lock makes it harder to get higher clocks

OK thanks, any idea for a good starting point for memory clock

[don_svetlio]

Try 1400 core and 1800 memory to start with (max voltage and power sliders)

[ybriK]

You should easily hit 1400-1450 max clock.

 

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_970_gaming_review,26.html

[stealth80]

1 minute ago, ybriK said:

You should easily hit 1400-1450 max clock.

 

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_970_gaming_review,26.html

Keep in mind the MSI isn't tdp locked unlike the EVGA

[stealth80]

8 minutes ago, Butch00 said:

OK thanks, any idea for a good starting point for memory clock

As @don_svetlio said, around 1800mhz on the memory, I seem to have crapped out on my memory chips as 1860 is around the max I can get, I run 1800 day to day

[ybriK]

2 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

Keep in mind the MSI isn't tdp locked unlike the EVGA

He should still be able to hit it though, atleast 1400.

[Butch00]

core is at 1515mhz still doing stability test, Memory is at 3506 by default

[ybriK]

1 minute ago, Butch00 said:

core is at 1515mhz still doing stability test, Memory is at 3506 by default

What base clock is that at? 1300?

[Majestic]

6 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

Keep in mind the MSI isn't tdp locked unlike the EVGA

Strix is even worse at this regard though. 1400 mhz was being bottlenecked by the TDP in heavy games like Tomb Raider and Crysis 3. 120% Powertarget, started thottling.

 

MSI 980 now, 1500mhz and not even hitting 110% in Rise of the Tomb Raider, 85% in Unigine Valley. 

[Butch00]

1 minute ago, ybriK said:

What base clock is that at? 1300?

I think it was 1190Mhz

[Butch00]

I only did +110 on core, its turbo boosting like a champ

[Butch00]

ummm... it just crashed and everytime I hit apply the clock and memory numbers go to 47129Mhz

[Butch00]

1 minute ago, Butch00 said:

ummm... it just crashed and everytime I hit apply the clock and memory numbers go to 47129Mhz

nvm fixed

 

[ybriK]

 

5 minutes ago, Butch00 said:

ummm... it just crashed and everytime I hit apply the clock and memory numbers go to 47129Mhz

Is this from valley? Yea ignore those stats, use MSI Afterburner. Unigine benchmarks haven't been updated since 2012-13. If this is from your OCing tool then that's strange...

[Butch00]

1 minute ago, ybriK said:

 

Is this from valley? Yea ignore those stats, use MSI Afterburner. Unigine benchmarks haven't been updated since 2012-13.

Those were the numbers in afterburner, I just went into device manager and disconnected the GPU and re-enabled it