980ti overclocking

[Cheesecake11]

Is it possible to push a Gigabyte Windforce 980ti above 1500 Mhz? If yes, could someone help with a short tutorial.

I am not too great at overclocking, therefore I would like to get some tips from the 'pros' or the people who at least know what they are doing. 

[vong]

8 minutes ago, Cheesecake11 said:

Is it possible to push a Gigabyte Windforce 980ti above 1500 Mhz? If yes, could someone help with a short tutorial.

I am not too great at overclocking, therefore I would like to get some tips from the 'pros' or the people who at least know what they are doing. 

It's possible but only you can find out. Try adding 150mhz to the core and memory and see how that goes.

[Cheesecake11]

27 minutes ago, vong said:

It's possible but only you can find out. Try adding 150mhz to the core and memory and see how that goes.

Which software would you recommend? The stock Gigabyte or something like afterburner?

[danrey84]

Afterburner I would use. Don't be surprised if it doesn't go over by a massive amount over 1500mhz. Most people have had is about 1550 or around that

[Cheesecake11]

Just now, danrey84 said:

Afterburner I would use. Don't be surprised if it doesn't go over by a massive amount over 1500mhz. Most people have had is about 1550 or around that

I will try my best and report on results, thanks!

[danrey84]

At the end of the day its all down to the gpu itself. If you hit the silicone lottery u will get a good 1 but if not 1500 is about right for what u get

[Cheesecake11]

1 minute ago, danrey84 said:

At the end of the day its all down to the gpu itself. If you hit the silicone lottery u will get a good 1 but if not 1500 is about right for what u get

Silicone lottery? Never heard that term before...  I presume it means something about a good/bad card coming off the conveyor...

[danrey84]

No the ' silicone lottery ' is a term used. the thing is silicone and Gpu's are not an exact science in the respect that for example. Me and you could both have the same card which were technically next to each other on the supply line but yours would boost or overclock a lot better than others. This then would be seen as you hitting the silicone lottery

[Cheesecake11]

1 minute ago, danrey84 said:

No the ' silicone lottery ' is a term used. the thing is silicone and Gpu's are not an exact science in the respect that for example. Me and you could both have the same card which were technically next to each other on the supply line but yours would boost or overclock a lot better than others. This then would be seen as you hitting the silicone lottery

Oh, I see. Smarter every day I guess

[Cheesecake11]

On 11/09/2016 at 9:27 PM, danrey84 said:

At the end of the day its all down to the gpu itself. If you hit the silicone lottery u will get a good 1 but if not 1500 is about right for what u get

Well... After pushing the card over Valley for about an hour, I only managed to squeeze 1484 Mhz... And I completely lost the silicone lottery as it seems: my card doesn't go over 1500 AND produces coil-whine...

[jjohnthedon1]

10 minutes ago, Cheesecake11 said:

Well... After pushing the card over Valley for about an hour, I only managed to squeeze 1484 Mhz... And I completely lost the silicone lottery as it seems: my card doesn't go over 1500 AND produces coil-whine...

Both of my 980tis get to 1484 so don't worry 

from everything iv seen not many break 1550 

most are around 1400 

some u fortunate are at 1300 max so ur not doing too bad

 

[Cheesecake11]

1 minute ago, jjohnthedon1 said:

Both of my 980tis get to 1484 so don't worry 

from everything iv seen not many break 1550 

most are around 1400 

some u fortunate are at 1300 max so ur not doing too bad

 

OK, that is reassuring, so I guess I won't have to cry too much over the speed differences between 1080 and 980ti..

[jjohnthedon1]

26 minutes ago, Cheesecake11 said:

OK, that is reassuring, so I guess I won't have to cry too much over the speed differences between 1080 and 980ti..

U get more performance from ocing a 980ti compared to a 1080 as well dude

980ti is still a beast and when oced performs better than a stock 1080 and fairly close too a oc 1080

 

[tuge]

i can't even get mine stable at 1479... usually have to have them around 1460 or risk crashes, though some games seems to run them more stable at higher clocks. That's even when checking out ok in drawn out stability testing

[jjohnthedon1]

18 minutes ago, tuge said:

i can't even get mine stable at 1479... usually have to have them around 1460 or risk crashes, though some games seems to run them more stable at higher clocks. That's even when checking out ok in drawn out stability testing

Personally I'd rather turn down one setting from ultra to high than oc saves on power and heat 

game looks litterly the same with higher fps 

[tuge]

How else am i support to game in my shorts where i live way up north