Overclocking GTX 1070

I am completely new to all of this overclocking business and I have been reading a lot but I'd like some clarification and maybe some numbers that I should be shooting for. I am using MSI Afterburner and the Uningine Valley benchmark test. Right off the bat I tried setting the memory boost to +500 and it just instantly crashed my computer. I tried a more modest +250 and that worked, so I went to the gpu clock and I set it to +100 and slowly worked my way up to +200. I have no idea what kind of FPS increases I should be expecting. What is the ratio that I should be increasing my gpu memory compared to my gpu clock? What are some numbers that I should try as the highest I can go? Does afterburner apply these settings as soon as I start my computer if I set it to start on windows start?

I have already undervolted my cpu by -.170 which seems to be working just fine after a few stress tests. I never went lower than that because I never saw anyone else go that low and my thermals were great to begin with.

I appreciate the help in advance.

EDIT: I managed to get +200 on my GPU clock, and +300 on the memory clock without Uningine Valley hiccuping or crashing. Does this sound about right? It only translated into basically a 2fps increase as far as I can tell. Does this also sound right?

 

+300 core and +200 cpu should be very stable indeed If you go above 8600 mhz on the ram, you will start to lose performance (at least I do) with micron memory. Mine is running at +300 ram (8600 mhz) and +230 core stable with liquid metal. I can push the core to +250 but I had a couple of crashes at that frequency.

 

Ah very nice. Thanks for the numbers.

 

For maximum stability on my 1080 i run +190 core and +750 memory. Probably adds 3-4 FPS at 4K but I'm waiting for info on voltage and power locking being increased so I can really see what this card can do!

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Oh wow sounds like either the 1080 can do way more memory overclocking or that's just the norm and I should be able to get way more than 300?

 

Remember guys....bigger numbers doesn't always mean better. You just have to find the sweet spot.

 

That's true iunlock, in fact it's not that easy to find the sweet spot on the 1070 because of power throttling, which induces an increased variance in the benchmark results.