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    Average 980m overclock?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Phase, May 27, 2015.

  1. Ethrem

    Ethrem Notebook Prophet

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    Yeah your higher ASIC card is just going to run hotter if anything. 65% seems to really be the mobile sweet spot... Higher ASIC does better in desktops.
     
    Ethrem, Nov 11, 2015
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  2. Cakefish

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    Aww, dang it.

    We'll see, we'll see :)

    Sent from my E5823 using Tapatalk
     
    Cakefish, Nov 13, 2015
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  3. thegreatsquare

    thegreatsquare Notebook Deity

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    My highest preset to game on is +113/+92. I undercut a bit off my max for a little headroom though usually I just use my first preset ...if any at all, which is vram only.

    [0/92, 56/92, 87/92, 104/92, 113/92]
     
    thegreatsquare, Nov 15, 2015
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  4. ssj92

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    If there's a game that needs extra performance for whatever reason I'll overclock.

    Normally what I do is overclock as high as the card will go on core/memory without any additional voltage and then scale it down a tiny it to have a maximum stable overclock.
     
    ssj92, Nov 15, 2015
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    jeanjackstyle Notebook Evangelist

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    Curiosity. How do you test stability for your maximum overclock?
     
    jeanjackstyle, Nov 15, 2015
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  6. ssj92

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    Benchmark looping. Sometimes I just do a 3DMark11 run then run the Heaven Benchmark 4.0 for 2-3 hours straight and if the GPU doesn't artifact or crash I'll use that clock as reference and slightly lower clocks for maximum stability.

    For example, let's say I get 1521Mhz/8100Mhz stable on my Titan X and it passes a 3DMark11 run without artifacts or crashing. Next I will run Heaven for 2-3 hours on the extreme preset and if it passes perfectly fine I will slightly lower clocks to say 1500Mhz/8000Mhz. This way its still overclocked high but also I know it passed at higher clocks so at the slightly lower clocks it should be completely stable in my games.

    I then save it as a profile in EVGA Precision X or MSI Afterburner. I normally do this once for each GPU I've owned and it hasn't failed me yet lol.



    Of course then there's a game that reallllyyy needs some more power and doesn't support SLI. For that I do the same thing as I mentioned above but go even higher by overvolting.

    I normally have like four profiles.

    First one is the usual +100/100 or whatever

    Second one is usually my maximum stable OC (w/o volts) +200/400 w/e

    Third one is usually my maximum stable oc w/volts +275/500 w/e

    Fourth one is usually for benching (stable enough to pass 3dmark but not games)
     
    ssj92, Nov 15, 2015
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