Is this a good Overclock on my GTX 780

[Jeankyyyy]

I managed to get my 780 to boost up it's core clock to 1,124 MHz stable, I was getting 1,170 before, but after 20-30 minutes of gaming it would crash. Is this an average overclock for 780 or a good one? I am using the reference cooler and i'm getting 80c at max load, I was wondering if the 780 TI would be that much faster than this overclocked 780. I am running BF4 maxed out at 1440p 60fps, really happy with it. Bought it for $500 the other day.

 

[eatmypie]

The reference coolers on the gtx cards do look sexy, but the overall cooling seems to be somewhat lacking from other coolers. Nvidia did make an amazing reference cooler design but I think if you are looking to push your card I would maybe swap it out for a asus, evga acx, or an msi card. Like even the evga cards come out of the box with a super aggressive overclock without to much headroom left without more exotic cooling methods. So maybe return the card and buy the 780ti from evga when available. Like i get worried if my card hits 75+ which it never has but still 80c is pretty crazy. just try increasing the voltage by increments of 3-5% and see if you see any difference between crashes, while also monitoring the temps. you can also try lowering the mem clock a bit if you messed around with that as well, because sometimes that can also cause weird issue's and crashes.

 

[Jeankyyyy]

The reference coolers on the gtx cards do look sexy, but the overall cooling seems to be somewhat lacking from other coolers. Nvidia did make an amazing reference cooler design but I think if you are looking to push your card I would maybe swap it out for a asus, evga acx, or an msi card. Like even the evga cards come out of the box with a super aggressive overclock without to much headroom left without more exotic cooling methods. So maybe return the card and buy the 780ti from evga when available. Like i get worried if my card hits 75+ which it never has but still 80c is pretty crazy. just try increasing the voltage by increments of 3-5% and see if you see any difference between crashes, while also monitoring the temps. you can also try lowering the mem clock a bit if you messed around with that as well, because sometimes that can also cause weird issue's and crashes.

Note: I am getting 80c at max load on 55% fan speed. i increased it to 70% and now it's under 70c, noise is pretty low. I just want to know if my GTX 780 at 1,124 MHz is close to a 780 TI performance. I just don't want to spend an extra $200 for 5% performance increase.

 

[eatmypie]

For about 200 bucks not really, just fine tune the overclock on your video card until it becomes stable. Like normally adding more voltage and not going to much over the stock mem clock will help.