Overclocking made no difference

[DildorTheDecent]

8 minutes ago, Chris Lowell said:

it appears that now its only clocking to 1880 mhz even at 55c. how do i change this? should i change voltage/ am i not understanding OCing?

 

 

Additional voltage will do next to nothing with Pascal. You're only hope is getting the temperature down. Not down 5C, down to around 40C IIRC. At that point it'll keep boosting as high as it can. Since at some point past 40C the card lowers it's clocks. Not throttling, but lowers clock by a few MHz. It's enough to be a slight pain.

 

Pascal is weird compared to Kepler and even Maxwell.

[App4that]

4 minutes ago, DildorTheDecent said:

Additional voltage will do next to nothing with Pascal. You're only hope is getting the temperature down. Not down 5C, down to around 40C IIRC. At that point it'll keep boosting as high as it can. Since at some point past 40C the card lowers it's clocks. Not throttling, but lowers clock by a few MHz. It's enough to be a slight pain.

 

Pascal is weird compared to Kepler and even Maxwell.

Depends on the card. My Lightning hits it's first lowering at 50c, then 60c. You're totally right Pascal is weird though. 

[DildorTheDecent]

Just now, App4that said:

Depends on the card. My Lightning hits it's first lowering at 50c, then 60c. You're totally right Pascal is weird though. 

Well tbf the Lightning is a much better built card. I'd imagine they wouldn't want the guys on their top end product getting "limited" (in a sense) that early.

 

Most of the ones tanking at 40C are reference PCBs from what I've seen/heard. So whether it's a proper FE card or a aftermarket cooling solution, the reference PCBs cards seem to fall first at 40C. Getting them on water is pretty much the only workaround.

 

[Chris Lowell]

On 4/23/2018 at 6:41 PM, DildorTheDecent said:

Additional voltage will do next to nothing with Pascal. You're only hope is getting the temperature down. Not down 5C, down to around 40C IIRC. At that point it'll keep boosting as high as it can. Since at some point past 40C the card lowers it's clocks. Not throttling, but lowers clock by a few MHz. It's enough to be a slight pain.

 

Pascal is weird compared to Kepler and even Maxwell.

i dont actually know what happened but i switched back to MSI afterburner from gigabyte extreme and though my thermals are similar, my gpu is staying at 2060ish mhz while in game, making a 5-10 fps difference. though its not a 100% increase (that seems rediculous now) im happy that im seeing a difference though im not sure why it made a difference. the software may have been bugged. 

[KarathKasun]

On 4/23/2018 at 4:38 PM, Chris Lowell said:

so the reason i say this is because my friend did an OC on his gigabyte 1060 g1 and he got 50% more frames in game so im wondering why i cannot achive the same

 

Fake news.  Nothing from the last 5 years overclocks by 50%.  If you OC by 10%-15% you MIGHT get 10%-15% better performance.

 

AFAIK the last cards that overclocked by ~50% were the GTX 470/465 and the original HD 7950.

 

I actually had a GTX 465 that overclocked by 50% and unlocked 20% more shaders. Nearly double the performance of the stock card was available.