Question MSI 1660 S OCing

[jtoya85]

I have my 1660s overclocked to +125mhz core, +825mhz vram, 1043 mV and it is working beautifully in my games with only CoD MW crashing if I alt-tab (which is easily worked around). The GPU, according to Afterburner and Riva Tuner, doesn't get above 55-57 C at full load when I have seen in various forums/spec sheet that say it runs at 63 C at load. 1) Can I theoretically raise one, or both, of the clocks for better performance because the card is running cooler?

I also watched a single video about changing the thermal compound on the GPU and that there could be mixed results, since he only tested with one card. I have some Arctic Silver 5 from when I built this rig a few months ago and some Noctua NT-H1 I ordered yesterday to try something different. 2) Would changing the thermal compound help me squeeze some more performance out of the GPU?

 

[helpstar]

Did you check to which MHz it is boosting too ingame?

 

[jtoya85]

Did you check to which MHz it is boosting too ingame?

Using the SOTTR benchmark I saw it hit 2085 MHz while loading but then it dropped to 2070 and then 2055 and stayed there, sometimes going back to 2070 but mostly at 2055, at Ultra settings. The card never went over 57 C