- Dec 9, 2013
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so i finally got my hands on a liquid cooler (kraken g10 bracket w/ corsair h90 push pull) for my evga superclocked 970. I didnt bother trying to OC it before hand coz i knew i would redo it after i got the cooler. The card is rated for 1317 boost clock, but thanks to gpu boost 2.0 it ran 1354 out of the box. the very first problem is that most reviews ive seen claimed these cards pushing over 1400 out of the box. the second is that from my understanding gpu boost 2.0 should take advantage of the cooler temps (50% fan speed has it under 50 celcius under load), but it hasnt changed; its still 1354. i tried for a 1400mhz clock speed, but even with the temp target maxed, power limits maxed, and an extra 37mv (the most precision x will allow on this card) i cant get it to be stable. i dont get any artifacting it just dies. my screen goes black, and i need to manually restart my pc. i also have the fans and pump running off a fan controller so theres no power draw from the card for cooling. i dont want to think that i got a dud overclocker since that already happened with my cpu (my 4770k refuses to go over 4.3). also i should point out that unigine valley and heaven both report my card as running 1506mhz. i know thats a problem with how unigine deals with gpu boost 2.0 but it makes me think theres a lot of untapped power in my card. can anyone help with this? maybe im missing something since im used to radeon cards.
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