GTX 970 overclock results!

[jty0yt]

So on my GTX 970 I have upped the core my 120 MHZ observing a boost clock of 1479mhz. MY fans are around 50 percent at 100 percent usage and the temps are 52 degrees! I have only upped the voltage by 15 MV and the power limit to 105%. I love this card, give me your results below!

 

[Vellinious]

http://imgur.com/AHr6M5u

Didnt know how to post picture so uploaded... Is the first time i have ever OC'd

after over 24 hours it is now stable 😀

Any tips ?

What clock and memory clock were you running? What voltage? Air cooling, or water?

 

[Rasmustech]

http://imgur.com/AHr6M5u

Didnt know how to post picture so uploaded... Is the first time i have ever OC'd

after over 24 hours it is now stable 😀

Any tips ?

What clock and memory clock were you running? What voltage? Air cooling, or water?

Voltage +50
Cole +144
And +580 og memory put the memory to 550 for gaming

 

[Rasmustech]

Godt No great cooling what so ever just the card and i stays og 60-62 celsius

Edit: now running at +52mv
112 powerlimit
+149 core
+580 memory stable played fallout 4 modded for 4 hours and max temps was 62degrees/celcius

Open case.
running in an open case

 

[Viktor Ruvoli]

Hi guys, I'm a owner o f the custom 970 Whisper Edition by OCuK from Caseking.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk-geforce-gtx-970-nvidia-970-cooler-edition-4096mb-gddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-205-ok.html

I've 2 of this in SLI mode. I was clockin' them and i'm curious about your opinion. What do you think 'bout these results?

P.S. It's first time for me in the overclock world, I need help, tips and your experience.

I'm Italian, sorry about my not perfect english.

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And this is about 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme.

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/7638759

 

[Vellinious]

Hi guys, I'm a owner o f the custom 970 Whisper Edition by OCuK from Caseking.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk-geforce-gtx-970-nvidia-970-cooler-edition-4096mb-gddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-205-ok.html

I've 2 of this in SLI mode. I was clockin' them and i'm curious about your opinion. What do you think 'bout these results?

P.S. It's first time for me in the overclock world, I need help, tips and your experience.

I'm Italian, sorry about my not perfect english.

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And this is about 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme.

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/7638759

That's pretty decent. Though, most people don't run Valley in 1440 resolution, so for comparison sake, run it in 1080 on the Extreme HD preset.

Your firestrike graphics score is ok.

 

[Viktor Ruvoli]

Thanks for the answer.


I have a PG278Q and i was thinkin' that i had to benchmarkin' at the resolution that i use to playin'.

Later, this afternoon, i'll repeat the benchmark at 1920x1080. But it could be right doin' that at a lower resolution than one that i usually use?

 

[Vellinious]

Thanks for the answer. I

have a PG278Q and i was thinkin' that i had to benchmarkin' at the resolution that i use to playin'.

Late i'll repeat the benchmark at 1920x1080. But it could be right doin' that at a lower resolution than one that i usually use?

The monitor resolution doesn't matter....you can run 2k and 4k benchmarks on a 720 monitor. The GPU is rendering it as the resolution you select in the benchmark.

 

[Viktor Ruvoli]

Thanks for the answe

The monitor resolution doesn't matter....you can run 2k and 4k benchmarks on a 720 monitor. The GPU is rendering it as the resolution you select in the benchmark.

Yeah, I know that. But i usually play at 2560*1440, so I was thinkin' that i've to benchmarkin' at the same res.

 

[Viktor Ruvoli]

Here we are. Extreme HD Preset and the MSIaft screen

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[Vellinious]

Here we are. Extreme HD Preset and the MSIaft screen

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At those clocks, the score should be higher. Open up GPUz to the sensors tab, and have it open while you run it again. I think it's very likely that you're hitting a power limit perf cap, and it's throttling your GPU.

It'll look like this. The "PerfCap Reason" line is the 2nd from the bottom. If you see green in that line, your clock / voltage / memory are too high, the card is trying to pull more power than that's allowed via the power limits set in the bios, and it's throttling. Notice how when the green line shows up, the core clock also drops? That's power limit throttling.

 

[Viktor Ruvoli]

Hi all, guys, goodmornin'. Here in Italy are 5:20 am and I'm ready to launch afterburner! YO!

Thanks Vell, for the advice about checink GPU-Z on PerCap string. I didn't know about its existence. In my graphs there's a lot of BLUE, YELLOW and GREY. Only a lil bit column are Green but they're so slim that I have to work hard for put cursor on it.

But hey, let the screen talk!



After your last message I've reset all value at default settings. And restart from zero.
This is a screen of my result with VANILLA SLI.



And then there's a screen where i've only raise up:
CORE CLOCK: +300
MEM CLOCK: +500
No other modification. And this is the result:



No any other color on GPU-Z than YELLOW/SLI. No Vrel, no VOp. etc... BUT THIS ONLY IF I RUN VALLEY ON WINDOW for keep checkin' GPU-Z. When i've tried to do that on full screen.. man, from flickering to stuttering, to lag.
I wish to get the target of havin' a stable overclock WITH:

CORE CLOCK: +308
MEM CLOCK: +495

Even raise up Voltage at max in full screen goes fuck up after 4th scene.

 

[Vellinious]

Hi all, guys, goodmornin'. Here in Italy are 5:20 am and I'm ready to launch afterburner! YO!

Thanks Vell, for the advice about checink GPU-Z on PerCap string. I didn't know about its existence. In my graphs there's a lot of BLUE, YELLOW and GREY. Only a lil bit column are Green but they're so slim that I have to work hard for put cursor on it.

But hey, let the screen talk!



After your last message I've reset all value at default settings. And restart from zero.
This is a screen of my result with VANILLA SLI.



And then there's a screen where i've only raise up:
CORE CLOCK: +300
MEM CLOCK: +500
No other modification. And this is the result:



No any other color on GPU-Z than YELLOW/SLI. No Vrel, no VOp. etc... BUT THIS ONLY IF I RUN VALLEY ON WINDOW for keep checkin' GPU-Z. When i've tried to do that on full screen.. man, from flickering to stuttering, to lag.
I wish to get the target of havin' a stable overclock WITH:

CORE CLOCK: +308
MEM CLOCK: +495

Even raise up Voltage at max in full screen goes fuck up after 4th scene.

The higher you raise the core / memory / voltage, the closer you'll get to that power limit perf cap again. So, you'll either have to run a balance between all 3 to find out where your best results are, OR....you can flash to a custom bios. It's a pretty easy process, but it certainly makes it a lot easier and a lot safer if your cards have a dual bios.

Which cards are you using? Specific model number?

 

[belegCZE]

so my first messing with afterburner and my one month old Gigabite G1.

stock voltage / 100 power limit

+140
+298

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going higher caused min fps drop too low, so i guess i gonna stick with this for a while

 

[Mr_tony]

Bit of help needed, so this is my first NVidia card and i have the msi gaming edition 970, Stock clocks - 1304 core 3506 mem, so i want to overclock the core to 1470 so i ad 166 on the core in msi afterburner correct? I have also bumped up memory +196 i have put power limit to +110% and have added +10 core voltage, in heaven benchmark the core runs sat 1482 core? 1231 core voltage, i don't know why, and after a few minutes when heat builds up the core drops down to 1470 and the voltage drops down to 1206, if i add +15v core it lasts a few minutes longer before dropping down 1470/1206 again, any ideas whats going on here? Also when i run furmark or heaven for 30 minutes plus its fine temps max out around 67 with my custom fan profile but when i play the divison temps go 1 or 2 degrees higher and the game crashes after an hour or more of gaming?

 

[gabby131]

Bit of help needed, so this is my first NVidia card and i have the msi gaming edition 970, Stock clocks - 1304 core 3506 mem, so i want to overclock the core to 1470 so i ad 166 on the core in msi afterburner correct? I have also bumped up memory +196 i have put power limit to +110% and have added +10 core voltage, in heaven benchmark the core runs sat 1482 core? 1231 core voltage, i don't know why, and after a few minutes when heat builds up the core drops down to 1470 and the voltage drops down to 1206, if i add +15v core it lasts a few minutes longer before dropping down 1470/1206 again, any ideas whats going on here? Also when i run furmark or heaven for 30 minutes plus its fine temps max out around 67 with my custom fan profile but when i play the divison temps go 1 or 2 degrees higher and the game crashes after an hour or more of gaming?

Try other test like 3dmark firestrike. I was on the same boat before where furmark and heaven yield great results, but when fired up witches 3, I saw artifacts. When i ran 3d mark firestrike, I saw a bit of artifacts on 1st and last tests... I figured it was my memory, so I put it back to stock and just left the core overclock.

 

[Mr_tony]

Bit of help needed, so this is my first NVidia card and i have the msi gaming edition 970, Stock clocks - 1304 core 3506 mem, so i want to overclock the core to 1470 so i ad 166 on the core in msi afterburner correct? I have also bumped up memory +196 i have put power limit to +110% and have added +10 core voltage, in heaven benchmark the core runs sat 1482 core? 1231 core voltage, i don't know why, and after a few minutes when heat builds up the core drops down to 1470 and the voltage drops down to 1206, if i add +15v core it lasts a few minutes longer before dropping down 1470/1206 again, any ideas whats going on here? Also when i run furmark or heaven for 30 minutes plus its fine temps max out around 67 with my custom fan profile but when i play the divison temps go 1 or 2 degrees higher and the game crashes after an hour or more of gaming?

Try other test like 3dmark firestrike. I was on the same boat before where furmark and heaven yield great results, but when fired up witches 3, I saw artifacts. When i ran 3d mark firestrike, I saw a bit of artifacts on 1st and last tests... I figured it was my memory, so I put it back to stock and just left the core overclock.

ok gabby I'm just realizing something, ifirst my gpu has elpida memory chips so i believe memory overclock may be effected? Also as i have said i have the core + 166 to 1470 at stock voltage, when running the gpu render test in gpuz clocks are fine BUT when i increase the core voltage +10 the turbo jumps tp 1483 if iput voltage +30 the turbo jumps to 1495, is this normal? Also as i have said after a while running benchmark the voltage will drop down to 1206 and turbo will drop to 1470. Why does adding core voltage increase my turbo? And when it drops down to 1206/1470 is this because of temperature or power limit?

 

[gabby131]

Bit of help needed, so this is my first NVidia card and i have the msi gaming edition 970, Stock clocks - 1304 core 3506 mem, so i want to overclock the core to 1470 so i ad 166 on the core in msi afterburner correct? I have also bumped up memory +196 i have put power limit to +110% and have added +10 core voltage, in heaven benchmark the core runs sat 1482 core? 1231 core voltage, i don't know why, and after a few minutes when heat builds up the core drops down to 1470 and the voltage drops down to 1206, if i add +15v core it lasts a few minutes longer before dropping down 1470/1206 again, any ideas whats going on here? Also when i run furmark or heaven for 30 minutes plus its fine temps max out around 67 with my custom fan profile but when i play the divison temps go 1 or 2 degrees higher and the game crashes after an hour or more of gaming?

Try other test like 3dmark firestrike. I was on the same boat before where furmark and heaven yield great results, but when fired up witches 3, I saw artifacts. When i ran 3d mark firestrike, I saw a bit of artifacts on 1st and last tests... I figured it was my memory, so I put it back to stock and just left the core overclock.

ok gabby I'm just realizing something, ifirst my gpu has elpida memory chips so i believe memory overclock may be effected? Also as i have said i have the core + 166 to 1470 at stock voltage, when running the gpu render test in gpuz clocks are fine BUT when i increase the core voltage +10 the turbo jumps tp 1483 if iput voltage +30 the turbo jumps to 1495, is this normal? Also as i have said after a while running benchmark the voltage will drop down to 1206 and turbo will drop to 1470. Why does adding core voltage increase my turbo? And when it drops down to 1206/1470 is this because of temperature or power limit?

It's nvidia's turbo boost....if voltage, power limits, and temps allow...the clocks go higher. My cards are OC to 1403. It goes up to 1466 - 1478 during games and heavy gpu loads. My voltages also vary on leads. From 1.110 to 1.213

If you increase voltage and power limit, and the gpu had enough headroom for temps (depending on your temp limit), nvidia turbo boost will activate and will run the card to a higher clock speed.

So yes, this situation of yours is normal.

 

[exactlybro]

Is it me or are all the gigabyte g1 gaming cards binned very well? The second one I've tested boosted to 1519 by itself with just raising the power limit to 112% and reached could reach 1625 core quite easily. I'm sure the card can go higher, but adding any voltage with both cards doesn't do anything for stability at all, probably good ol gigabyte locking down voltage like on their r9 390's.

 

[Chris_193]

I have the Strix version of the 970.
+1000 to the gpu clock
+1000 to the memory clock
Runs very smooth and stable, with no signs of artifacts or straining at ALL.
Temps around 44, and power limit is max, voltage is untouched.
Fan speed is 60-ish.
CONCLUSION: VERY SATISFIED.

 

[Sergieee]

Stable and checked with AIDA. MAX 58 C°

 

[Sergieee]

I tuned down the memory to 7800.
Game stability problem on 8ghz.

 

[Vellinious]

I've had my MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4 since September now and I've had plenty of time testing it and overclocking as well as flashing my own custom BIOS's. I have to say i'm very dubious about people that claim 1550mhz 8000mhz is truely stable with no voltage or TDP limit bump. I found that running benchmarks and gaming for short periods or on certain games this was achieveable by simply increasing tdp to 110% but under real stress it would always crash or throttle back the GPU.

In the end I modified the entire voltage scale on the cards BIOS, topping out at 2.81v @ 1550mhz / 8000mhz with a TDP max limit of 300w & i have seen it actually reach 260w several times. This allows the card to run rock solid stable for hours on end in anything I've thrown at it and it never scales back the gpu clock. FC4, BF4, valley bench and heaven all run perfectly with no artifacts, hangs or crashes.

Here are my scores to prove results:

lol, gotta say nice edit. almost believable XD now if only you edited the bigger score to the bottom pic with the higher avg FPS. i mean really? how does 65FPS avg score higher then 82FPS avg? XD nice try trying to troll.

Uh...because one screen cap is heaven, and the other is valley.... /smack

 

[Vellinious]

I have the Strix version of the 970.
+1000 to the gpu clock
+1000 to the memory clock
Runs very smooth and stable, with no signs of artifacts or straining at ALL.
Temps around 44, and power limit is max, voltage is untouched.
Fan speed is 60-ish.
CONCLUSION: VERY SATISFIED.

No you're not. rofl

 

[ivn543]

So on my GTX 970 I have upped the core my 120 MHZ observing a boost clock of 1479mhz. MY fans are around 50 percent at 100 percent usage and the temps are 52 degrees! I have only upped the voltage by 15 MV and the power limit to 105%. I love this card, give me your results below!

 

[Karl_10]

How did u guys test your card stability? I got EVGA 970 SC:
+ 150 core
+ 300 mem

I managed to oc my Asus gtx 960, 222 MHz on gpu, 700 MHz on memery core voltage up 15 and upped both fan speed to 70% power offset to +12 and temp offset by 6% temps stable at 40c