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- Sep 20, 2001
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- Bakersfield, CA
I've started work on trying to maximize my performance out of this card since I put it on water cooling this week. The card is now cooled on it's own 280mm radiator. I flashed the FE card to the 380W max power limit bios with success. I loaded MSI Afterburner, ran the OC Scanner, and get about a 2040MHz max boost with 60C load temps on the GPU. I also now have the memory overclocked to 8100MHz pretty stable I think. It's running Time Spy at an average of 2000MHz, and I'm getting around a 15K score. In bone stock form I was getting about 14K. It's pulling the full 380W when I run the Furmark benchmark. My water temps rise into the high 40s, but considering the heat load going through it, sounds about right to me.
My issue comes when I try to manually set the core speed and wring some more speed out of it. It just won't play! Everything crashes out at anything over +130MHz from the stock speeds of 1733MHz boost. I max out the core voltage, power limit and temp limit.
My question I guess is how can I wring more speed out of it outside of the OC Scanner limits?
I'm also tempted to re-orient the cooling loop so that the card can take advantage of the 280GTX thick boi radiator with push/pull fans that my CPU is enjoying to itself. The CPU maxes out at 250W on AVX loads, which it doesn't see when playing games. Tons of extra heat dissipation to be had there I think.
My issue comes when I try to manually set the core speed and wring some more speed out of it. It just won't play! Everything crashes out at anything over +130MHz from the stock speeds of 1733MHz boost. I max out the core voltage, power limit and temp limit.
My question I guess is how can I wring more speed out of it outside of the OC Scanner limits?
I'm also tempted to re-orient the cooling loop so that the card can take advantage of the 280GTX thick boi radiator with push/pull fans that my CPU is enjoying to itself. The CPU maxes out at 250W on AVX loads, which it doesn't see when playing games. Tons of extra heat dissipation to be had there I think.