power % question on a gtx 970 4gb ref..increasing bad?

[William Ireland]

i been noticing i been throttling i think..not from temperature but from power limit % i read in msi afterburner i created a few profiles and been playing without OCing.. that power limit % during doom spikes above the 100 but temps are fine at low 70s ..then i see my core clock go from stead 1300's to 1200 ish...
i then created a profile increasing power lim % to max and the core clocks are stable at 1270's ..it did come down from 1300's but is this bad for my computer?
what is power limit % and am i ok doing this?

 

[JackNaylorPE]

First thing I do after installing the drivers is sliding the power and voltage bars all the way to the right ... simply put, there is nothing that you can do with these sliders voltage wise that will hurt the card. NVidia has clamped down so hard, both legally and physically, that youd have to laod an alternate BIOS or physically modify the card o cause a problem.

Unlike AMD cards, nVidia cards have pretty high overclocking headroom. The GTX 970 hovers are sround 17% ... the 980 Ti 28-30% and even higher. My cards are peg themselves at 110% during Furmark testing. here's what Guru 3D did

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_970_gaming_review,26.html

With AfterBurner we applied:

Temp Target 80 Degrees C
GPU clock +185 MHz
Power limiter 110%
Mem clock +500 MHz
Volatge + 87Mv
FAN RPM 70% (remains silent)

I have never heard of anyone damaging their card when sliding current cards to max power / max voltage.... however, I have seen higher overclocks when turning down the voltage a lil bit from the max.... depends on the card.

 

[William Ireland]

First thing I do after installing the drivers is sliding the power and voltage bars all the way to the right ... simply put, there is nothing that you can do with these sliders voltage wise that will hurt the card. NVidia has clamped down so hard, both legally and physically, that youd have to laod an alternate BIOS or physically modify the card o cause a problem.

Unlike AMD cards, nVidia cards have pretty high overclocking headroom. The GTX 970 hovers are sround 17% ... the 980 Ti 28-30% and even higher. My cards are peg themselves at 110% during Furmark testing. here's what Guru 3D did

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_970_gaming_review,26.html

With AfterBurner we applied:

Temp Target 80 Degrees C
GPU clock +185 MHz
Power limiter 110%
Mem clock +500 MHz
Volatge + 87Mv
FAN RPM 70% (remains silent)

I have never heard of anyone damaging their card when sliding current cards to max power / max voltage.... however, I have seen higher overclocks when turning down the voltage a lil bit from the max.... depends on the card.

yeah maybe i havent noticed this because the card is about 15 months old...maybe she needs more power and its causing throttling, thats fine waiting for a evga 1070 to hit..and im grabbing one anyway ..tx
i created a profile and stopped the throttling just but maxing power and voltage..its stable and fine now in doom