Overclocking with MSI Afterburner

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Hey guys, I have an MSI GAMING X GTX 1060 3GB.

Using MSI afterburner I can only overclock it 150MHz plus for core and 150MHz plus for memory. Any more and system crashes when stress testing. Power consumption is on max, 108%. Temperature limit is 85C, Though its never actually gone to or above 70C.

I tried increasing voltage but I don't understand the units, i did like plus 20 (plus 0.02V?) but still it crashes. Why is this?
 
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It appears that you have hit the max overclock for your gpu.

You can raise the voltage more to see if that makes it stable. The units are millivolts so +20 is adding 20mv to your card which is equal to 0.02v
I believe the max you can add is 0.08v to the gpu unless you go with a modded bios which I would not suggest with air cooling.
If you continue to raise the voltage and the system still is not stable then it is safe to say that you found the max overclock for your graphics card
 
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Thats about all you will get out of it. These pascel cards don't manually OC very far, GPUboost 3.0 will go pretty high on its own. I have an MSI GAMING X 1060 6GB, which will boost itself to 1974mhz core clock, I can get it to about 2075mhz with a manual overclock before I start artifacting. Which is about a 150mhz offset in msi afterburner just like you. As far as memory I can get 300mhz+ offset, are you sure you cant get the memory clocks to go any farther?

You cant increase the voltage in afterburner for 1060s as far as i'm aware. You can change the power and temp limit, I would max out those sliders when overclocking. It will allow the gpu to consume a bit more power and might OC a bit better, don't worry about temp limit with the msi gaming x's cooler, you will never come close.
 
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lot of guys don't realize how high the pascals are clocked as it is . look at the 900 cards at 1250 may oc them to 1400 now these 10 series cards are out of the box at 1700 2000 MHz

just think if you could get a 980ti to clock at 2000 ??? it would leave pascal in the dust
 
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You can't increase voltage? That's weird because I can. Did you enable voltage control in settings?

Is GPU boost 3.0 already part of my card or is it something I need to install?
 
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The max I can add is 100 plus, which is 0.1 voltage I assume. Also what should be the max voltage I add? I'm expecting to keep this card for over 5 years.
 
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If you have enough cooling, you can max out the slider, but the temps will jump up with that extra voltage. You can run it for a short time to see if it allows for a better overclock but if not, i would lower the slider to make the card run cooler and use less power.
Ive had my gpu run at 0.15v more than stock and it allowd for a 350mhz overclock but I am on a 980ti and that was a modded bios. It also put out a lot of heat. Jump the temps up by 10C on water which caused my cpu to warm up a lot too since they are on the same loop.
If you are on air cooling, I would advise against going over 0.06v
My guess is that youve already hit the max overclock with your card and since you are wanting it to run for the next 5 years, I would leave it how it is now, stable, cool and at a low voltage
 
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How much voltage does it let you add? No I cannot change the voltage yes i have unlock voltage control checked, I am pretty sure these cards are voltage locked. Can you post a screenshot? Because if it isn't I would surly like to know. GPU boost 3.0 is a function of all pascel gpu's, you already have it.
 
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if you look at the articles its not the same as older cards were on that pretty much as sais with gpu boost 3.0 NVidia has all ready maxed the cards out of the box and you may not get much more over that anyway

don't be surprised the next gen of cards may not allow any overclocking seeing how NVidia takes more and more of that away from the end user
 
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http://imgur.com/a/MIWjY

Lets me add 100 units
 
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should , I used MSI afterburner on a evga card [they were both developed by the same guy anyway ] just msi fine tuned theres there way and evga fine tuned theres there way ..

for my card I found precision to do a better job , that could just be how it is for this card and my system , may do better for you then may not or be the same ? cant hurt to try and see


''Overclocking has changed with Pascal. It's gotten more advanced – but not more complex. The core functions of overclocking remain the same; we're still using manual stepping and sliders to achieve high, sustained overclocks, but a new auto OC tool (currently only with EVGA Precision) makes limit finding easier. In theory, anyway. We couldn't get it to work with our GTX 1080, but it seems that EVGA Precision's auto-OC (called “ScanOC”) is now functioning with the latest press drivers and installation ''

http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2487-msi-gtx-1080-gaming-x-review-and-overclocking-benchmark/page-6

looks like they used it for that MSI 1080 card
 
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Thanks.
 
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thing is like we say with pascal NVidia pretty much squeezed out all they can to start out with under that gpu boost 3.0 , and luck of the draw comes more in play to get much more out of pascal . I'm sure guys claiming good overclocks maybe doing some high risk bios mods to do so ?

like from here you see '' Maximum overclock of our sample is 2415 MHz on the memory (21% overclock) and +178 MHz to the GPU's base clock, which increases maximum Boost from 1974 MHz to 2152 MHz (9% overclock).''

then they say '' A higher board power limit could have helped increase out-of-the-box performance by allowing NVIDIA Boost to boost higher for longer because there is more power headroom to do so.'' [where a bios mod can come in to play ]

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_1060_Gaming_X_3_GB/31.html

then don't forget MSI could of cherry picked a card to send them to test . not a random card from newegg like you get

https://www.techpowerup.com/223440/msi-and-asus-send-vga-review-samples-with-higher-clocks-than-retail-cards

now what they don't tell you is that 24/7 stable ? or the max they got under one test ?

like my card I can go pretty good on it and my not crash the overclock on one or two things but that's it .. theres a max oc and then theres a max stable under everything you run 24/7 ..

so your max oc maybe fine under some things but crash near instantly running other things then there cards that may not take any oc at all [luck of the draw]


in the end you may have a excellent card out of the box to start with
 
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