First Overclock - Questions on Screen Resolution

[Chairein]

Hello! So, after watching Jayz2Cents' 2015 overclocking tutorial I have been inspired to suck the sweet, sweet performance out of my GPU that Nvidia has been withholding from me! However, this overclock is multi-purposed - not only would I like this overclock to improve my gaming performance (which, admittedly, is fine but...still want to try to make it fine-er!) but also because I *believe* that this would improve my hash rate when I dip my feet into mining (which is also something I am looking to experiment with, if just for the experience of doing it).

 

So, what I did was install MSI Afterburner and the Heaven benchmark. However, I am unsure what screen resolution to run this at. I have a 34'' ultrawide monitor (LG -34UM58) with a 2560x1080 screen resolution. However, I see on Jay's tutorial that he is running it for a 1920x1080 monitor. Further confusion, when I set it to 'System' (in the Heaven benchmark) it gives me 1600x900 for testing. Again, since I would like to overclock also to improve mining performance (if that's the right phrase?) which doesn't need to run on an ultrawide monitor, what screen resolution should I be using when bench marking?

 

As an aside, I have a GTX Titan X (Maxwell) that I got off Facebook Marketplace for $300. I understand that on the list of bang-for-buck GPUs this is not even on the list but...*shrugs* I got it for a good price I think  

[Leonard]

10 minutes ago, Chairein said:

.*shrugs* I got it for a good price I think  

 

bench at native which is the 2560x1080 at the highest refresh rate.

[Chairein]

3 minutes ago, Leonard said:

 

bench at native which is the 2560x1080 at the highest refresh rate.

So, if I could ask a theoretical question then: is there any difference between bench marking at different screen resolutions? Or is the key just that I am consistent with my screen resolutions during testing?

[NelizMastr]

The more variables you create, the harder it becomes to test the gains.

[DocSwag]

36 minutes ago, Chairein said:

So, if I could ask a theoretical question then: is there any difference between bench marking at different screen resolutions? Or is the key just that I am consistent with my screen resolutions during testing?

It really doesn't matter what resolution. As long as it's consistent it's ok.

[Chairein]

Okay - a follow-up question: I have a stable (15 min benchmark loop of Heaven) OC before voltage changes at +190MHz on core and +150MHz on memory. So now that I'm including core voltage changes do I just...max it out at +112mV and see what I can move the core clock to? Or does changing the voltage in and of itself need to be incrementally benchmarked?

[Leonard]

5 hours ago, Chairein said:

So, if I could ask a theoretical question then: is there any difference between bench marking at different screen resolutions? Or is the key just that I am consistent with my screen resolutions during testing?

When OCing, yes there is a difference somewhat, when you OC a GPU at full resolution the OC will be fine/stable for any smaller resolution but if you OC the GPU on a low resolution and then decide to increase the resolution you may very well get issues, which is why it would be best to OC the GPU on the native resolution of the monitor.