Graphics card clocking higher than what I set it to?

[Zuhayr378]

I just got a Gigabyte GTX 960 G1 Gaming (don't hate pls, I'm Canadian, I can't deal with the 280x which is much more) and I've been able to toy around with it alot hitting higher overclocks than expected BUT I have one problem. While testing the stability of this GPU in the higher clocks I realize my GPU cannot go above 1538 MHz. To be on the safer side I keep the boost clocks to 1452 MHz which is still quite high. Even when applying such a setting in MSI afterburner and MAKING SURE those settings have been applied, my GPU on it's own chooses to hit higher and go towards 1576 MHz which I see in the max clock in the charts for Afterburner while playing Titanfall. It hit 1585 once too. Is this normal? Is this part of GPU Boost 2.0 or something? I am SOO CONFUSED being the noob OCer that I am.

It's not harming anything and my GPU stays stable when those weird clock jumps happen but when I do turn to Titanfall which HATES high overclocks for some reason and I force to set boost clocks to only 1387 MHz, it still jumps towards the high 1500s. Clues or reasons anybody? just curious.

 

[TechyInAZ]

Yeah it's NVidia Boost 2.0, for example my gtx 750 ti FTW has a overclock of 1270mhz boost, but with when load is near or at 100% it clocks at 1346mhz.

So are you having issues with titanfall? I'd set the boost clock down a bit so the NVidia boost doesn't go so high.

 

[Zuhayr378]

Yeah it's NVidia Boost 2.0, for example my gtx 750 ti FTW has a overclock of 1270mhz boost, but with when load is near or at 100% it clocks at 1346mhz.

So are you having issues with titanfall? I'd set the boost clock down a bit so the NVidia boost doesn't go so high.

Yeah, I was wondering why it was the only game that crashed with high overclocks, that was all. I guess it really must be GPU boost 2.0. Because of Titanfall I am forced to clock the GPU about 50MHz lower than my standard overclock.