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- Jul 14, 2003
So after putting a kraken g10 and an h55 on my evga 970 FTW+, i finally decided to get to OCing using MSI Afterburner last night. Finished the night off at +12mv, about +220 on the core (highest boost clock i got to was 1623mhz), and +100 on the vram (7.2gbps effective, up from 7). I had put the power limit and thermal limit sliders all the way up. Valley would run without issue. Temps were not an issue either, low 60s if that.
I had also OC'd my CPU (i7-3770k) to 4.6ghz at 1.255v "stable" after about 10-20mins of prime95 small FFT. Temps were about as high as i was comfortable with (mid-70s c).
Firestrike was NOT happy. So many issues, failed runs, unknown errors, etc. Kept lowering the OC on the graphics card, issues persisted. Eventually had to reset bios to start from scratch and remove the OC on the graphics card. Now firestrike would run. Left the CPU OC off, started playing with the GPU again and eventually found a GPU OC that ran firestrike without issues. +8mv core voltage, +175 core clock (for 1592mhz boost), and +100 on the vram (for 7.2gbps). So after bringing the OC back on my CPU, things got unstable again but at the same settings i had previously had stable. Confusing. Anyways, found my way back down to 4.4ghz and firestrike was now cooperating (and also valley, which started having issues with GPU OC after putting the CPU back to stock).
So thats where i ended up at with the 970 FTW+.
+8mv
+175 core (now 1592mhz boost)
+100mhz vram (now 7.2gbps)
Old Firestrike score
New Firestrike score
I had also OC'd my CPU (i7-3770k) to 4.6ghz at 1.255v "stable" after about 10-20mins of prime95 small FFT. Temps were about as high as i was comfortable with (mid-70s c).
Firestrike was NOT happy. So many issues, failed runs, unknown errors, etc. Kept lowering the OC on the graphics card, issues persisted. Eventually had to reset bios to start from scratch and remove the OC on the graphics card. Now firestrike would run. Left the CPU OC off, started playing with the GPU again and eventually found a GPU OC that ran firestrike without issues. +8mv core voltage, +175 core clock (for 1592mhz boost), and +100 on the vram (for 7.2gbps). So after bringing the OC back on my CPU, things got unstable again but at the same settings i had previously had stable. Confusing. Anyways, found my way back down to 4.4ghz and firestrike was now cooperating (and also valley, which started having issues with GPU OC after putting the CPU back to stock).
So thats where i ended up at with the 970 FTW+.
+8mv
+175 core (now 1592mhz boost)
+100mhz vram (now 7.2gbps)
Old Firestrike score
New Firestrike score