GPU OC on the limit safe?

[Light-Yagami]

Hi guys.

 

I've had my share of gpu overclocking back in the day with my gtx 460 and now with gtx 1070 strix.

I've noticed that the card runs stable with +220mhz offset on the core and +300mhz on the memory with +75mv voltage. But if I increase core clock offset by just 5mhz, it produces terrible artifacts and I can't get it to run stable even if I increase vcore to max (+100mv). At aforementioned OC it jumps between 2050mhz and 2063mhz with occasional peeks at 2075mhz. When 5mhz more is given (225mhz), card runs ever so slightly faster, tapping the 2075 line more often, producing artifats when staying up for to long. My question is: Is it safe to run your card so close to it's limit? Should I give it more voltage at this OC to increase stability? Fans are at 50% and it runs at 61 degrees celsious.

 

Thanks for answers, share your OC. Cheers

[toasty6776]

You're not really pushing the card to its limits. GPU overclocking utilities like MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision XOC have safeguards in place so you can't break your card be overvolting via these utilities. Overvolting will cause the temps to rise (as you probably know) but my 1070 strix (which I returned because I ended up preferring the looks of the EVGA FTW) never topped 73°C when fully overvolted and overclocked to its limits.

13 minutes ago, Light-Yagami said:

share your OC

+150MHz on my EVGA GTX 1070 FTW on the core and +200MHz on the memory at max overvolt.