Overclocking my gpu doesn't change FPS in-game.

[SlayrInSight1]

I recently built a new pc and installed a gtx 960 msi gaming 2g, while benchmarking it at stock speed it was getting around 52fps in unigine, and after overclocking it using msi afterburner i managed to get 60fps with no crashes ( if i raise it anymore unigine would crash ).
That was great and all, but when i tested it in fallout 4 and cs go it was getting the same or lower fps on avg, oh and i did not mess with the core voltage.

 

[CDDogg]

if your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU, even a little bit, overclocking the card won't yield you any boost in performance. Try overclocking your CPU instead, see if that helps.

 

[SlayrInSight1]

if your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU, even a little bit, overclocking the card won't yield you any boost in performance. Try overclocking your CPU instead, see if that helps.

Yeah, i thought so. i have an i3 3220, thinking of getting an i5 4690k. i assume that should be alright 😀

 

[Cinderblox]

if your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU, even a little bit, overclocking the card won't yield you any boost in performance. Try overclocking your CPU instead, see if that helps.

I have an r9 380 and a i7 4790
Oc'd gpu to 1150mhz but i have the same problem. No boost in fps , its stuck on 293-295 on cs go

Is it because its an cpu intensive game or something?

 

[CDDogg]

if your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU, even a little bit, overclocking the card won't yield you any boost in performance. Try overclocking your CPU instead, see if that helps.

I have an r9 380 and a i7 4790
Oc'd gpu to 1150mhz but i have the same problem. No boost in fps , its stuck on 293-295 on cs go

Is it because its an cpu intensive game or something?

Well yes and no. safely oc'ing your GPU will only give you a boost of 10 FPS max. if you boost it anymore you risk overheating. 290 FPS is alot I don't think you need anymore. OC'ing is usually useful only on low spec PC's when 10 FPS is the difference between playable and not. Here is the part where the CPU is important. If your CPU doesnt bottleneck your card but ocing the GPU doesn't show any results its still probably a CPU issue. Game processing that uses CPU can cause FPS drops every now and then, combine that with a 10 FPS boost and you will see basically no change, because your FPS is higher but still drops just the same.

 

[Cinderblox]

if your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU, even a little bit, overclocking the card won't yield you any boost in performance. Try overclocking your CPU instead, see if that helps.

I have an r9 380 and a i7 4790
Oc'd gpu to 1150mhz but i have the same problem. No boost in fps , its stuck on 293-295 on cs go

Is it because its an cpu intensive game or something?

Well yes and no. safely oc'ing your GPU will only give you a boost of 10 FPS max. if you boost it anymore you risk overheating. 290 FPS is alot I don't think you need anymore. OC'ing is usually useful only on low spec PC's when 10 FPS is the difference between playable and not. Here is the part where the CPU is important. If your CPU doesnt bottleneck your card but ocing the GPU doesn't show any results its still probably a CPU issue. Game processing that uses CPU can cause FPS drops every now and then, combine that with a 10 FPS boost and you will see basically no change, because your FPS is higher but still drops just the same.

Card is watercooled so can handle both gpu an vram overclocking so no worrys for the overheating part(45-50 celcius stock and 45-55 OC depending on heat from CPU).
Tested it on bf4, csgo, ghosts, advanced warfare even red alert 2 => the 1150mhz stable clock is not giving me any positive sings of being usefull.

on CsGo and RA2 i can see the CPU going up to 90% peak so in that game it could be the bottelneck. But for the other games wich are less cpu intensive i don't see any improvements but the heat of the card is obviously higher than with the stock settings.

It just seems weird that an OC of 170mhz doesn't seem to do much in game whilst it gave a 20% on heaven benchmark.

give up on OC?

 

[CDDogg]

if your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU, even a little bit, overclocking the card won't yield you any boost in performance. Try overclocking your CPU instead, see if that helps.

I have an r9 380 and a i7 4790
Oc'd gpu to 1150mhz but i have the same problem. No boost in fps , its stuck on 293-295 on cs go

Is it because its an cpu intensive game or something?

Well yes and no. safely oc'ing your GPU will only give you a boost of 10 FPS max. if you boost it anymore you risk overheating. 290 FPS is alot I don't think you need anymore. OC'ing is usually useful only on low spec PC's when 10 FPS is the difference between playable and not. Here is the part where the CPU is important. If your CPU doesnt bottleneck your card but ocing the GPU doesn't show any results its still probably a CPU issue. Game processing that uses CPU can cause FPS drops every now and then, combine that with a 10 FPS boost and you will see basically no change, because your FPS is higher but still drops just the same.

Card is watercooled so can handle both gpu an vram overclocking so no worrys for the overheating part(45-50 celcius stock and 45-55 OC depending on heat from CPU).
Tested it on bf4, csgo, ghosts, advanced warfare even red alert 2 => the 1150mhz stable clock is not giving me any positive sings of being usefull.

on CsGo and RA2 i can see the CPU going up to 90% peak so in that game it could be the bottelneck. But for the other games wich are less cpu intensive i don't see any improvements but the heat of the card is obviously higher than with the stock settings.

It just seems weird that an OC of 170mhz doesn't seem to do much in game whilst it gave a 20% on heaven benchmark.

give up on OC?

I'd give up on OCing GPUs. I use to OC my graphics card but like i said it never showed anything more significant. The best i was able to get out of it was a 15 FPS boost in minecraft. The only thing I think is good to OC is the CPU, CPU ocing is easy and shows definite results. For example, I have an old AMD Athlon II X2 220 2.8GHz Dual-core, which is fine for games like bo2 and mw3 but it doesnt play next gen games without stutters. I got a new cooler and was able to oc it to 3.5GHz and it works for next gen gaming perfectly.