hello,
so i would like to start off with that im completly new to this, and i recently built my first gaming/workstation rig ever. very happy how it turned out, even though i literally spent a whole day building the system.
However, back to the question. I wanted to try overclocking, to see what my GPU could do. So i began and ended up with these configs working properly on heaven benchmark.
Power limit 116%
Voltage 100% (altough it capped itself at 1.094 or something like that)
Core clock 170mhz
Memory clock 600mhz
temp manually set to 80C ( I assume it starts throttling if it goes beyond this ? cus thats why i set 80 as max)
(voltage at 100% because i asked in a forum, and i got replies saying the card is locked at max voltage in BIOS so it doesnt matter if its max, it wont fry itself)
With this i was able to run heaven benchmark without issues at 78.1 fps average and a score of 1988. So then i tried 3DMark firestrike and it basically just shut off several times. So i found out that the OC was unstable after trying to run on stock speed (which worked), so i turned the core clock down to 160mhz, still crashed. Then i found a post somewhere, stating 5% voltage is what worked, so then i tried 5% voltage, although i still dont know what voltage does. Turns out it worked. ran the benchmark without issues. went from 10508 in score to 11515, quite a nice boost.
But what really does voltage do is what im after? why would the benchmark work for 5% voltage and not 100% voltage. Straight theoretically speaking, more Voltage = More power. but i have no idea what it does in GPU's. Could anyone enlighten me?
PC specs for anyone wondering:
Asus geforce gtx 1060 3gb dual OC
ryzen 1600 with 360mm AIO
asus rog strix b350-f gaming
ballistix sport 2x4gb 2666mhz
EVGA 550w 80+ bronze PSU
*I have not started OC on cpu at all. Its barely being used while gaming and sitting at 32 degrees celsius, so no point to OC at all.**
¨Thanks for answers in advance
so i would like to start off with that im completly new to this, and i recently built my first gaming/workstation rig ever. very happy how it turned out, even though i literally spent a whole day building the system.
However, back to the question. I wanted to try overclocking, to see what my GPU could do. So i began and ended up with these configs working properly on heaven benchmark.
Power limit 116%
Voltage 100% (altough it capped itself at 1.094 or something like that)
Core clock 170mhz
Memory clock 600mhz
temp manually set to 80C ( I assume it starts throttling if it goes beyond this ? cus thats why i set 80 as max)
(voltage at 100% because i asked in a forum, and i got replies saying the card is locked at max voltage in BIOS so it doesnt matter if its max, it wont fry itself)
With this i was able to run heaven benchmark without issues at 78.1 fps average and a score of 1988. So then i tried 3DMark firestrike and it basically just shut off several times. So i found out that the OC was unstable after trying to run on stock speed (which worked), so i turned the core clock down to 160mhz, still crashed. Then i found a post somewhere, stating 5% voltage is what worked, so then i tried 5% voltage, although i still dont know what voltage does. Turns out it worked. ran the benchmark without issues. went from 10508 in score to 11515, quite a nice boost.
But what really does voltage do is what im after? why would the benchmark work for 5% voltage and not 100% voltage. Straight theoretically speaking, more Voltage = More power. but i have no idea what it does in GPU's. Could anyone enlighten me?
PC specs for anyone wondering:
Asus geforce gtx 1060 3gb dual OC
ryzen 1600 with 360mm AIO
asus rog strix b350-f gaming
ballistix sport 2x4gb 2666mhz
EVGA 550w 80+ bronze PSU
*I have not started OC on cpu at all. Its barely being used while gaming and sitting at 32 degrees celsius, so no point to OC at all.**
¨Thanks for answers in advance
