Overclocking 780 Ti Advice

[trawetSluaP]

Hi,

I recently bought an ASUS GTX 780 Ti Direct II OC (http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/GTX780TIDC2OC3GD5/) and would like a little help with overclocking the card.

I have read in reviews that the "VRM" temperature can get on the high side of 100 degrees Celsius. Is this directly related to the Memory of the card, and if it is should I avoid overclocking the memory and stick with a core OC? I do not wish to damage this card as was expensive and I have no experience on overclocking a GPU.

Thanks
Paul

 

[clayofthe757]

The following will not be useful to your endeavors but I'll write it anyway -

That card is already overclocked and you will get very little from clocking it higher. You might get ten or fifteen bonus frames per second when you reach the highest stable clock. The ASUS 780Ti has no need for a few more FPS. The damn thing will run any game you want at the super-dooper-ultra-maximum settings without a hitch.

I wish you luck with this thread and your (super-geek) overclocking desires. But I won't encourage it.

All the best.

 

[trawetSluaP]

The following will not be useful to your endeavors but I'll write it anyway -

That card is already overclocked and you will get very little from clocking it higher. You might get ten or fifteen bonus frames per second when you reach the highest stable clock. The ASUS 780Ti has no need for a few more FPS. The damn thing will run any game you want at the super-dooper-ultra-maximum settings without a hitch.

I wish you luck with this thread and your (super-geek) overclocking desires. But I won't encourage it.

All the best.

You're wrong! What you have written is helpful in that I've realised I don't need to overclock this card. Was just something I intended to do just because I could. However, having monitored it using MSI Afterburn it seems it overclocks itself up to 1098MHz which is what I was going to aim for anyway.

Thanks for you help.

My question regarding VRM still stands though.

 

[clayofthe757]

Yes, the VRM. Don't worry over it. Every well manufactured card will not let you destroy any of its components while running as the maker designed. If you want to see what it does download CPUID Hardware Monitor and run your stress tests. Whatever temperatures the VRM reaches will be within design specifications and limitations.

Good luck.

 

[trawetSluaP]

Ok, thanks again!