Overclocking Evga GTX 1060 SC

[deevam]

Hi
I am just a noob and a beginner on overclocking. I have a couple of questions about overclocking Evga GTX 1060 SC card. This card is already factory overclocked to 1607mhz base and 1835 boost. Some people mention that they overclocked this card to 2125mhz and I understand that 2125mhz has to be a boost clock.

I managed to overclock the base at 1763mhz and boost 1991mhz without any crash in furmark. Furmark stress test with extreme burn in showed that gpu clock started at 1985 and as temperature went up to 72 degrees the gpu clock went down to 1885mhz( gpu boost 3.0) At 1776mhz base and 2004mhz boost, running furmark nvidia driver would crash.

Then I ran unigine valley and it keep resetting the overclock back to default without any driver crash until I reduced the overclock to 1724mhz base and 1952mhz boost. But even at this overclock it reported that gpu was running at 2113mhz to start with and even at temps of 72 degrees it stayed around 2075mhz

So my first question is that people who are saying that they managed to overclock this card upto 2125mhz, are they talking about copmlete manual overclock or are they saying this including the boost from gpu boost 3.0.

Second question is about that furmark ran at a much higher overclock(base 1763, boost 1991) but only reported that gpu was running at 1885mhz at 72 degrees whereas unigine valley won't run at those clocks. Unigine valley only sustained an overclock of base 1724 and boost 1952 but still boosted the gpu up to 2113mhz. So which overclock value should I use? Is there something that I am not doing right?

Thanks

PS
Dell XPS 435mt, CPU i7 920 at 2.6ghz, 12gb crucial ballistix tactical, evga 500w bronze, WD blue 1TB hdd. Rosewill Stealth mid tower with 4 fans.

 

[n0ns3ns3]

there is a target temperature of GPU that GPI boost 3.0 aim - it's lower than max temp. AFAIR it's 70-75C.
So in order to achieve higher clocks, you need to rump up the fan speed. at very high speed it will be noisy, but you will be able to get higher clocks.
you also have to max temp, power and voltage limits. And finally, adjusting the per voltage frequency might get you few MHz more.
Frankly, the performance improvement from 1900 to 2000 not worth it as it is not noticeable without FPS counter

 

[RobCrezz]

They are talking about what it actually boosts to in game.

Run GPU-Z and look at the sensor tab, it will log what the maximum clock speed it saw the gpu get to when you run the bench.

 

[deevam]

I did log in gpu-z. when running furmark it recorded lower clock and unigine valley it went up to 2113mhz stable.
The confusion in my head is that if I manually overclock more than 1724 base and 1952 boost then unigine valley resets the clock back to defaults without any error message where as I can run furmark at 1763mhz base and 1991 boost. Memory in both settings is clocked up to 8700mhz. At and above 8750mhz the driver crashes.

I had some problems with this card up until last week as it was causing BSODs when waking up from sleep. Although that seems to be resolved with the recent nvidia driver, I am still wondering if this card is up to the task. I'll run again after setting the custom fan curve.
Thanks

 

[RobCrezz]

Yeah different benchmarks stress the cards in different ways, so its worth checking on a couple to be sure of stability.

 

[deevam]

OK I tried with custom fan profile and temps in furmark reached 65 degrees and gpu clock at this temperature was 1885-1923mhz with the manual overclock of 1763 and 1991 base and boost respectively.
In unigine valley again I could only overclock base and boost up to 1731 and 1959, a slight improvement from 1724 and 1952. I did run unigine valley at ultra with 8xMSAA with 1920x1080 resolution.The gpu boost 3.0 boosted the clock upto 2126mhz at start and then settled at 2088mhz when temperature hit 60 degrees. Temperature stayed around 60-61 degrees.
The maximum graphic intensive game I have is Battlefront by EA. I managed 2151mhz in beginning and then settling at 2113mhz at 60 degrees with the overclock at 1757 base and 1985 boost.
As RobCrezz mentioned that people are talking about in game boost upto 2125mhz, so considering that, my card is achieving that sort of boost with a 225mhz+ overclock at 1731 base and 1959 boost clock.
It would be more helpful if people report the actual manual overclock figures rather than the boost speeds.
Is my card good at overclock?
Thanks.

 

[n0ns3ns3]

you card is as good as any other.
No need to worry

 

[Rawberries]

I wouldn't say that it makes a big difference if you overclock it 600mhz up. It will only reduce the lifspan and you won't even notice that it's overlocked. So my suggestion is to not overclock and just stay with the normal clock speeds.

 

[deevam]

Thanks n0ns3ns3.

Rawberries I agree about that lifespan can be reduced but it largely depends on the temperature of the card and how much in a day one uses it. For normal desktop operations it is only running at 253mhz and may run slightly higher when using video etc.
About 600mhz overclock not making much difference? That is 40% of 1506mhz base clock.

 

[RobCrezz]

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It would be more helpful if people report the actual manual overclock figures rather than the boost speeds.

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That wouldnt really work as people could still achieve different actual clock speeds because of other variables (cooling system, ambient temp, power delivery etc)

 

[TechBloke]

Mine boosts to just over 2000. Assume not worth o/c? I am on a 1080p 144hz monitor.

 

[RobCrezz]

Mine boosts to just over 2000. Assume not worth o/c? I am on a 1080p 144hz monitor.

you could potentially get another 100-150mhz, also you can usually get an extra 1ghz out of the vram which helps. Overclocked it gets a lot closer to 1070 performance (but still not as fast).

 

[n0ns3ns3]

Mine boosts to just over 2000. Assume not worth o/c? I am on a 1080p 144hz monitor.

With pascal cards, OC is just for fun as there is no drastic improvement. You will gain couple of FPS which would be impossible to notice without FPS counter.
Eventually, with my 1070 I ended up looking for the lowest voltage at 2000MHz to keep the card as cool as possible. And even that was just for fun as even at 35C room temperature, GPU stays below 50C -> that's the benefit of liquid cooling.

 

[deevam]

Due to a large amount of BSODs i refunded this EVGA and got my hands on a MSi 1060 armor OCV1. This operates with a sizeavble factory overclock and a large sustainable overclock!

Thanks all for your help

 

[Scott76]

I have a EVGA GTX 1060 SC and it shows steady 1999Mhz when gaming, yet I haven't touched it. Temps get up to 65, but usually low 60's. Is that normal boost or how is it hitting 1999mhz?

 

[RobCrezz]

Because its the superclocked version, and GPU boost is boosting up.

 

[TechBloke]

Thanks guys. Will leave alone as I am really pleased with performance so far.