[SOLVED] Should I overclock even if I still have stock air coolers?

[linuxkernel]

Lately, I've been wanting to overclock my GPU to get more perfomance in games and I'm not sure if I should actually do it since I still l have my stock coolers that are already about 3-4 years old.


Incase it matters, here are my specs & temperatures



OS: Manjaro Linux (Kernel: 5.10)

GPU: GTX 1060 6GB VRAM

CPU: I7 6700k

Motherboard: H110M-PRO

RAM: 16GB


CPU temperatures when idle: 25-35 celsius

GPU temperatures when idle: about 40-45



Cheers!

 

[Newtonius]

You can try to overclock the GPU. If you see your card heating up too much while overclocking then you can always just disable it. It doesn't hurt to try. Just increment the overclock values slowly so you know what values make it unstable.

 

[linuxkernel]

You can try to overclock the GPU. If you see your card heating up too much while overclocking then you can always just disable it. It doesn't hurt to try. Just increment the overclock values slowly so you know what values make it unstable.

I actually never thought of that, I'm gonna try that later.

 

[Newtonius]

I actually never thought of that, I'm gonna try that later.

You'll want to start with the Core clocks. Keep raising it by 30 everytime, it usually drops 15Mhz at each thermal throttle mark fyi. As for the VRAM, you can theoretically push it to the max value and it still won't crash though this is unadvised since although it's not crashing it may be spitting out tons of errors. When it starts outputting errors it needs to spend extra time correcting those errors and thus you lose overall performance, so for overclocking vram you need to feel around for the sweet spot. +500 is a typically a good level to push it to if it's GDDR6 VRAM.

 

[linuxkernel]

You'll want to start with the Core clocks. Keep raising it by 30 everytime, it usually drops 15Mhz at each thermal throttle mark fyi. As for the VRAM, you can theoretically push it to the max value and it still won't crash though this is unadvised since although it's not crashing it may be spitting out tons of errors. When it starts outputting errors it needs to spend extra time correcting those errors and thus you lose overall performance, so for overclocking vram you need to feel around for the sweet spot. +500 is a typically a good level to push it to if it's GDDR6 VRAM.

I can't seem to find the option to increase it in my BIOS?

 

[Newtonius]

I can't seem to find the option to increase it in my BIOS?

You don't overclock the GPU in the BIOS, you need to do that on the desktop either through the terminal (if you're a linux god) or through 3rd party software.
Try this:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6VcmFQl7-8

 

[linuxkernel]

You don't overclock the GPU in the BIOS, you need to do that on the desktop either through the terminal (if you're a linux god) or through 3rd party software.
Try this:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6VcmFQl7-8

I'm gonna try that and as soon as i succeed, I'll let you know!

 

[linuxkernel]

You'll want to start with the Core clocks. Keep raising it by 30 everytime, it usually drops 15Mhz at each thermal throttle mark fyi. As for the VRAM, you can theoretically push it to the max value and it still won't crash though this is unadvised since although it's not crashing it may be spitting out tons of errors. When it starts outputting errors it needs to spend extra time correcting those errors and thus you lose overall performance, so for overclocking vram you need to feel around for the sweet spot. +500 is a typically a good level to push it to if it's GDDR6 VRAM.

So I just got GreenWithEnvy (which I'll from now refer to as GWE) and I don't know where the core clocks are & where to increase the VRAM.

 

[Newtonius]

So I just got GreenWithEnvy (which I'll from now refer to as GWE) and I don't know where the core clocks are & where to increase the VRAM.

You see in the video where it shows GPU offset and mem offset at the bottom of GWE? That's where you apply the overclock. GPU offset is core clock and mem is VRAM,

 

[linuxkernel]

You see in the video where it shows GPU offset and mem offset at the bottom of GWE? That's where you apply the overclock. GPU offset is core clock and mem is VRAM,

I can't seem to be able to change the GPU offset & Mem offset?

I'm try to change the number from 0 MHz to for example 200 MHz but it doesn't work?

 

[Newtonius]

I can't seem to be able to change the GPU offset & Mem offset?

I'm try to change the number from 0 MHz to for example 200 MHz but it doesn't work?

Try this:

Overclocking nvidia graphics card on Linux | Ckode.dk

Taking a brief detour from "My journey to Linux", I wanted to overclock my Geforce GTX 760, as I had done the same on Windows. Doing so proved to be very easy, and yield a rather good increase in performance.

www.ckode.dk

You can use GWE to monitor your GPU settings, so no need to uninstall that yet. Overclocking on Linux isn't as straight forward since most applications used on windows don't have Linux versions.