Am I Overclocking Right??

[saltbox23k]

hi guys,

 

so i decided to overclock my EVGA GTX 1080Ti FTW3 Hybrid today. It boosts by itself to about 1961MHz in games so i decided to add a +75  MHz to the core and a +250 on the memory. i ran unigine heaven it hit 2050MHz on the core. i looked around and saw the other people with 1080tis had to add +150-175 on the core to achieve 2050MHz. am i doing something wrong? the card currently on the master bios (i know the slave is better for overclocking) and i have voltage at 100% and power target at 117%, 80c as temp target. also, is there any other benchmark or something that i can use to confirm the the 2050mhz core clock is stable?

 

thank you

[Crunchy Dragon]

I don't think you're doing anything wrong. To determine if your overclock is stable, run a benchmark for a while, maybe 10 minutes or so

[saltbox23k]

20 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I don't think you're doing anything wrong. To determine if your overclock is stable, run a benchmark for a while, maybe 10 minutes or so

i decided to add +100 to my core as other did, and ran Unigine heaven. the card hit 2076MHz. I immediately closed the benchmark and dialed down the overclock because I thought it would case  instability. but why is my card hitting higher clocks than others who applied the same offset? Also, what benchmarks do you recommend?

[3 Lions]

7 minutes ago, saltbox23k said:

i decided to add +100 to my core as other did, and ran Unigine heaven. the card hit 2076MHz. I immediately closed the benchmark and dialed down the overclock because I thought it would case  instability. but why is my card hitting higher clocks than others who applied the same offset? Also, what benchmarks do you recommend?

Well it's a liquid cooled card, this card can achieve high overclocks while being very cold.  

Edited December 27, 2017 by LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo

[saltbox23k]

2 minutes ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

Well it's a liquid cooled card, this card can achieve high overclocks while being very cold.  

I see. so, air cooled 1080Tis boost to around 1920MHz without an OC then?

[3 Lions]

Just now, saltbox23k said:

I see. so, air cooled 1080Tis boost to around 1920MHz without an OC then?

With air cooled Pascal cards you do get 13MHz core clock step downs due to GPU Boost 3.0 being tied to temperature (example my MSI Gaming X 1070 starts at 2113MHz when it is cold and gradually steps down to 2088MHz as the temperature rises). With a liquid cooled card you can keep it under a certain temperature and prevent GPU Boost 3.0 from taking over too much, this is why you can get a 2050MHz core clock with only a small offset increase.   

[Crunchy Dragon]

22 minutes ago, saltbox23k said:

i decided to add +100 to my core as other did, and ran Unigine heaven. the card hit 2076MHz. I immediately closed the benchmark and dialed down the overclock because I thought it would case  instability. but why is my card hitting higher clocks than others who applied the same offset? Also, what benchmarks do you recommend?

Don't turn off the benchmark until it becomes unstable. Heaven, Valley, FireMark, and Superposition are good benchmarks. Also you could probably give Furmark a try(just not at too high of a resolution).

[saltbox23k]

27 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Don't turn off the benchmark until it becomes unstable. Heaven, Valley, FireMark, and Superposition are good benchmarks. Also you could probably give Furmark a try(just not at too high of a resolution).

ok. I will run heaven again with the +100. I’ll also download superposition. thanks

[saltbox23k]

2 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Don't turn off the benchmark until it becomes unstable. Heaven, Valley, FireMark, and Superposition are good benchmarks. Also you could probably give Furmark a try(just not at too high of a resolution).

I ran FireStrike with the +100 (2076Mhz) on the core and it didnt crash. Superposition is still downloading so i went ahead a tried a +125 (2.1GHz) on the core and ran FireStrike, but it crashed. I dialed it down to a +110 (2088MHz) on the core and ran FireStrike Ultra and Heaven and it passed. Will try superposition later tommorrow.

[Crunchy Dragon]

7 minutes ago, saltbox23k said:

I ran FireStrike with the +100 (2076Mhz) on the core and it didnt crash. Superposition is still downloading so i went ahead a tried a +125 (2.1GHz) on the core and ran FireStrike, but it crashed. I dialed it down to a +110 (2088MHz) on the core and ran FireStrike Ultra and Heaven and it passed. Will try superposition later tommorrow.

Awesome! So far, it seems stable. Try doing some gaming as well, monitoring framerates and temps