- Joined
- Feb 27, 2013
- Location
- Soviet Canuckistan
Hey Everyone,
Let me preface this by saying that I'm not terribly experienced with overclocking so I'm going on the assumption here that I've missed something, or that I'm doing something wrong because it seems like my overclocked settings are having negligible effects at all.
I'm running an ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 970 (STRIX-GTX970-DC2OC-4GD5)
Stock clocks are:
Core Clock: 1114MHz
Mem Clock: 1753 MHz
Boost Clock: 1253 MHz
I've installed MSI Afterburner and gotten Unigine Valley going to check for stability and artifacts, with HWMonitor watching temps and GPUZ to make sure that I'm actually hitting apply on my settings.
I've found a pretty hard ceiling on mem clocks. Anything above +125 and I start seeing these little red and blue starburst-style artifacts occasionally in Unigine Valley. So I've backed that off to +125.
For Core Clock I've gone up to +185 so far and haven't seen any artifacts... but I also am not seeing increased temps and am barely seeing any increased performance.
Temps are staying around 72C whether stock clocks or 1299MHz/1815MHz
Passmark's 3D Mark scores are 8,284 stock clocks and 8,469 overclocked (a mere 2%)
Unigine Valley does 55.2fps/2309pts stock and 59.2/2477pts overclocked (a slightly more respectable 7%)
Does this sound right to you guys? Is there really that little to be gained with these cards?
For reference I checked a couple of reviews of the card online to see the clocks they topped out at:
Guru3d got 1264/2000
thepcenthusiast got 1261/1975
techpowerup got 1290/1990
So straight numbers-wise I'm in the right neighborhood for core/mem clocks.... but I haven't even hit passmark's site's average score of 8,598 for the GTX 970!
Any advice?
Cheers,
Jon
Let me preface this by saying that I'm not terribly experienced with overclocking so I'm going on the assumption here that I've missed something, or that I'm doing something wrong because it seems like my overclocked settings are having negligible effects at all.
I'm running an ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 970 (STRIX-GTX970-DC2OC-4GD5)
Stock clocks are:
Core Clock: 1114MHz
Mem Clock: 1753 MHz
Boost Clock: 1253 MHz
I've installed MSI Afterburner and gotten Unigine Valley going to check for stability and artifacts, with HWMonitor watching temps and GPUZ to make sure that I'm actually hitting apply on my settings.
I've found a pretty hard ceiling on mem clocks. Anything above +125 and I start seeing these little red and blue starburst-style artifacts occasionally in Unigine Valley. So I've backed that off to +125.
For Core Clock I've gone up to +185 so far and haven't seen any artifacts... but I also am not seeing increased temps and am barely seeing any increased performance.
Temps are staying around 72C whether stock clocks or 1299MHz/1815MHz
Passmark's 3D Mark scores are 8,284 stock clocks and 8,469 overclocked (a mere 2%)
Unigine Valley does 55.2fps/2309pts stock and 59.2/2477pts overclocked (a slightly more respectable 7%)
Does this sound right to you guys? Is there really that little to be gained with these cards?
For reference I checked a couple of reviews of the card online to see the clocks they topped out at:
Guru3d got 1264/2000
thepcenthusiast got 1261/1975
techpowerup got 1290/1990
So straight numbers-wise I'm in the right neighborhood for core/mem clocks.... but I haven't even hit passmark's site's average score of 8,598 for the GTX 970!
Any advice?
Cheers,
Jon