Bad GTX 1070 OC results. (I guess)

[Siejo2]

Hey, so I'm trying hard to overclock my Gigabyte G1 1070 in MSI afterburner and all I can get is something around +50 on the core clock. When I try to get near +100 (like even +80-90) and open a game it just crashes.I tried messing with the core voltage as my temperatures are really good, tried to give it +10 and a little bit more but it still crashes. Although overclocking the core values sucks I can give +800 to the memory and play stable, so I think it's not bad. Is there anything I can do to overclock my base clock more ?

Thanks

 

[Mikel_4]

try googling best thermal grease > maximize case fan's airflow (if you use air cooling) > check your PSU ampere , bottom line is many preps to be done b4 shooting MHz tweaks.
1. Redo TIM application, this time use top brand such as arctic MX4 > the idea is to loose tiniest hole between GPU hot plate to cooler cold plate.
2. Clear air way from clattered cables > your GPU air cooler is using "air" to cool, the faster the air moved = the lower the temp

 

[Vlad_14]

Hey, so I'm trying hard to overclock my Gigabyte G1 1070 in MSI afterburner and all I can get is something around +50 on the core clock. When I try to get near +100 (like even +80-90) and open a game it just crashes.I tried messing with the core voltage as my temperatures are really good, tried to give it +10 and a little bit more but it still crashes. Although overclocking the core values sucks I can give +800 to the memory and play stable, so I think it's not bad. Is there anything I can do to overclock my base clock more ?

Thanks

Seems like you've got golden memory (which should increase performance , especially at +800) . My gtx 1070 struggles at even 550 sometimes so i have to lower it to 500.But the core stays at 200+ easily , maybe 210+ . anyways , its really strange that ur card can only overclock that bad . Try running 3dmark time spy and see what results u have . Im gonna run it and tell mine , considering my gpu goes further at the core clock , but lower at memory

 

[Vlad_14]

Hey, so I'm trying hard to overclock my Gigabyte G1 1070 in MSI afterburner and all I can get is something around +50 on the core clock. When I try to get near +100 (like even +80-90) and open a game it just crashes.I tried messing with the core voltage as my temperatures are really good, tried to give it +10 and a little bit more but it still crashes. Although overclocking the core values sucks I can give +800 to the memory and play stable, so I think it's not bad. Is there anything I can do to overclock my base clock more ?

Thanks

One more thing : are u sure ur not seeing artifacts (especially red dots in my case) ? the highest ive seen was +700 on memory , so u probably broke a record in memory speed .

 

[Siejo2]

Hey, so I'm trying hard to overclock my Gigabyte G1 1070 in MSI afterburner and all I can get is something around +50 on the core clock. When I try to get near +100 (like even +80-90) and open a game it just crashes.I tried messing with the core voltage as my temperatures are really good, tried to give it +10 and a little bit more but it still crashes. Although overclocking the core values sucks I can give +800 to the memory and play stable, so I think it's not bad. Is there anything I can do to overclock my base clock more ?

Thanks

One more thing : are u sure ur not seeing artifacts (especially red dots in my case) ? the highest ive seen was +700 on memory , so u probably broke a record in memory speed .

Great idea, I'll download it and give you the results as soon as I finish
Yeah +800, as I tested it a bit more ,is not really that stable to play but +770 seems to be just fine

 

[Siejo2]

try googling best thermal grease > maximize case fan's airflow (if you use air cooling) > check your PSU ampere , bottom line is many preps to be done b4 shooting MHz tweaks.
1. Redo TIM application, this time use top brand such as arctic MX4 > the idea is to loose tiniest hole between GPU hot plate to cooler cold plate.
2. Clear air way from clattered cables > your GPU air cooler is using "air" to cool, the faster the air moved = the lower the temp

But my temperatures are very good, I hope I understood the point of this guide because i'm not too sure 😀

 

[junkeymonkey]

you should read up on NVidia gpu boost 3 and see . most 10 series are pretty much close to there limits anyway and don't overclock like older series has

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10325/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-and-1070-founders-edition-review/15


this is why you don't see much a gap between 10 series card lines like a evga lower sc and a evga classified is only like 17mhz difference between there clocks unlike older series where that may of been 90 MHz

NVidia pretty much hog tied you on these cards

EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC GAMING ACX 3.0
•1708MHz Base Clock
•1847MHz Boost Clock

EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 CLASSIFIED GAMING ACX 3.0
•1721MHz Base Clock
•1860MHz Boost Clock


then good old days are gone and there peaked close to max from the factory as it is NVidia taking more and more of overclocking away from the end used

980ti classy

•Base Clock: 1190 MHZ
•Boost Clock: 1291 MHz


980ti sc

•Base Clock: 1102 MHZ
•Boost Clock: 1190 MHz

you kinda get what you pay for with the higher end classy out of the box at 100 MHz diff... not a messily little 17mhz as tou see with a 10 series

this is why LED lighting is now a strong selling point cause it not the clocks .. lol........

 

[Vlad_14]

try googling best thermal grease > maximize case fan's airflow (if you use air cooling) > check your PSU ampere , bottom line is many preps to be done b4 shooting MHz tweaks.
1. Redo TIM application, this time use top brand such as arctic MX4 > the idea is to loose tiniest hole between GPU hot plate to cooler cold plate.
2. Clear air way from clattered cables > your GPU air cooler is using "air" to cool, the faster the air moved = the lower the temp

But my temperatures are very good, I hope I understood the point of this guide because i'm not too sure 😀

yeah , he basically told u what u should do to remove thermal throttling . But depends on what ur temps are . mine are not higher than 61 .

 

[junkeymonkey]

may just be any ''LUCK OF THE DRAW '' just not on his side with that card ?? like I said don't expect much from pascal and NVidia gpu boost 3 to start with

good luck

unlike with evga gigabyte may void your warrantee if you remove the cooler and change paste .. those who know NVidia know evga

 

[Vlad_14]

may just be any ''LUCK OF THE DRAW '' just not on his side with that card ?? like I said don't expect much from pascal and NVidia gpu boost 3 to start with

good luck

unlike with evga gigabyte may void your warrantee if you remove the cooler and change paste .. those who know NVidia know evga

im pretty sure he wont need to do that . the gigabyte g1 1070 versions are pretty good

 

[junkeymonkey]

''im pretty sure he wont need to do that . the gigabyte g1 1070 versions are pretty good ''

guess that's why hes posting here at toms over it ????

 

[junkeymonkey]

Maximum overclock of our sample is 2425 MHz on the memory (19% overclock) and +58 MHz to the GPU's base clock, which increases maximum Boost from 2076 MHz to 2134 MHz (7% overclock).

and for all you know that was a factory cherry picked sample card sent to them to insure a great review ??

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GTX_1070_Xtreme_Gaming/29.html

https://www.techpowerup.com/223440/msi-and-asus-send-vga-review-samples-with-higher-clocks-than-retail-cards

thing is luck of the draw my last card sucked at any oc but this card I got now does nice , but your not far off from there max stable overclock anyway at +50

so you may not be as bad off as you think overall

 

[Siejo2]

Maximum overclock of our sample is 2425 MHz on the memory (19% overclock) and +58 MHz to the GPU's base clock, which increases maximum Boost from 2076 MHz to 2134 MHz (7% overclock).

and for all you know that was a factory cherry picked sample card sent to them to insure a great review ??

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GTX_1070_Xtreme_Gaming/29.html

https://www.techpowerup.com/223440/msi-and-asus-send-vga-review-samples-with-higher-clocks-than-retail-cards

thing is luck of the draw my last card sucked at any oc but this card I got now does nice , but your not far off from there max stable overclock anyway at +50

so you may not be as bad off as you think overall

Yet Vlad_14 is able to do +200 on the core clock and I very rarely get to 2000 MHz

 

[Siejo2]

try googling best thermal grease > maximize case fan's airflow (if you use air cooling) > check your PSU ampere , bottom line is many preps to be done b4 shooting MHz tweaks.
1. Redo TIM application, this time use top brand such as arctic MX4 > the idea is to loose tiniest hole between GPU hot plate to cooler cold plate.
2. Clear air way from clattered cables > your GPU air cooler is using "air" to cool, the faster the air moved = the lower the temp

But my temperatures are very good, I hope I understood the point of this guide because i'm not too sure 😀

yeah , he basically told u what u should do to remove thermal throttling . But depends on what ur temps are . mine are not higher than 61 .

61 with OC and 95-100% usage ? Because I get like 67-69 C but it's still a norm as far as I'm concerned.
I'll post my 3DMark results tomorrow as I need some time to find my sweet spot 'cause this benchmark is crashing when I'm using the OC settings I was using while playing or using Heaven Benchmarks or Furmark so it's pretty weird. And btw. I can't run the Time Spy benchmark because im still on Win 7 so i'm testing on Fire Strike lmao

 

[Mikel_4]

Not much power tweak left for your G1 card, it already has decent power phase design (better than reference GTX 1070 PCB), I'm planning to get three more GTX 1070 to replace power waster GTX 780Ti on my rendering build because turn out GTX 1070 slightly faster on Octane Render with lower wattage. For gaming only I'd say the power consumption of OCing to FPS gain ratio wasn't worthwhile, you can shoot power target up to 260-270 watt as priority if you play highest image quality on 4K monitor just to get couple FPS, if you do that the cooler fan need to be at least 90% RPM to match OC TDP.
Again for gaming only, in every second power used by / controlled by GPU Boost 3.0 is somewhat more efficient than hanging power only at its allowed maximum rate, I have Gigabyte GTX 1070 GV-N1070G1 GAMING-8GD (reference PCB), managed to get 133% power target with EK-Thermosphere + MNPC GPU riser attached with 120mm fan (cooling VRM on akasa MOSFET heatsink), with corsair link, drew 273 watt, higher than I expected of 250 watt. I guess reference PCB power phase design is still not good as tall PCB.

 

[Vlad_14]

try googling best thermal grease > maximize case fan's airflow (if you use air cooling) > check your PSU ampere , bottom line is many preps to be done b4 shooting MHz tweaks.
1. Redo TIM application, this time use top brand such as arctic MX4 > the idea is to loose tiniest hole between GPU hot plate to cooler cold plate.
2. Clear air way from clattered cables > your GPU air cooler is using "air" to cool, the faster the air moved = the lower the temp

But my temperatures are very good, I hope I understood the point of this guide because i'm not too sure 😀

yeah , he basically told u what u should do to remove thermal throttling . But depends on what ur temps are . mine are not higher than 61 .

61 with OC and 95-100% usage ? Because I get like 67-69 C but it's still a norm as far as I'm concerned.
I'll post my 3DMark results tomorrow as I need some time to find my sweet spot 'cause this benchmark is crashing when I'm using the OC settings I was using while playing or using Heaven Benchmarks or Furmark so it's pretty weird. And btw. I can't run the Time Spy benchmark because im still on Win 7 so i'm testing on Fire Strike lmao

Heaven benchmark 4,0 should read you gpu core clock and memory . even with the max pushed out of the clock (because basically , your golden on the memory , i told u , the highest ive seen was +700 , until now) , u still dont reach at least 2000mhz ? Thats really strange . But ive told u , ill give u my score in a benchmark u want , and well see . Cause im at +200 on the core clock , but +480 on the memory ; and i might go lower as ive saw very small artifacts(red dots)

 

[Siejo2]

try googling best thermal grease > maximize case fan's airflow (if you use air cooling) > check your PSU ampere , bottom line is many preps to be done b4 shooting MHz tweaks.
1. Redo TIM application, this time use top brand such as arctic MX4 > the idea is to loose tiniest hole between GPU hot plate to cooler cold plate.
2. Clear air way from clattered cables > your GPU air cooler is using "air" to cool, the faster the air moved = the lower the temp

But my temperatures are very good, I hope I understood the point of this guide because i'm not too sure 😀

yeah , he basically told u what u should do to remove thermal throttling . But depends on what ur temps are . mine are not higher than 61 .

61 with OC and 95-100% usage ? Because I get like 67-69 C but it's still a norm as far as I'm concerned.
I'll post my 3DMark results tomorrow as I need some time to find my sweet spot 'cause this benchmark is crashing when I'm using the OC settings I was using while playing or using Heaven Benchmarks or Furmark so it's pretty weird. And btw. I can't run the Time Spy benchmark because im still on Win 7 so i'm testing on Fire Strike lmao

Heaven benchmark 4,0 should read you gpu core clock and memory . even with the max pushed out of the clock (because basically , your golden on the memory , i told u , the highest ive seen was +700 , until now) , u still dont reach at least 2000mhz ? Thats really strange . But ive told u , ill give u my score in a benchmark u want , and well see . Cause im at +200 on the core clock , but +480 on the memory ; and i might go lower as ive saw very small artifacts(red dots)

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/17833986 That's my score. The GPU was not overclocked as it seems like it's not
working ??? Whenever I try to increase for example memory clock, the MSI Afterburner tells me that it's 4006 MHz (stock) while I'm running the benchmark. It is only happening when I'm using 3DMark so I guess it's normal, isn't it ? So my 1070 was not overclocked in this one, so if you can post your results without OC and with OC (if it's possible to run this benchmark with OC ) then that would be great And the benchmark i run was Fire Strike
Edit : I have no idea why is the time measurement inconsistent, as I have done a lot of benchmarks and it seems to be appearing like randomly but the score was similar every time so I think it does not matter