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Do you overclock your GPU......(with POLL)

Do you o/c your GPU ?

  • YES

    Votes: 97 65.5%

  • NO

    Votes: 25 16.9%

  • The factory did it for me

    Votes: 23 15.5%

  • I underclock/ undervolt

    Votes: 3 2.0%
  • Total voters
    148
No I dont. As you pointed it out I dont need to as long as I'm happy with it's performance. I might in the future.
 
My EVGA GTX 980 Ti card only has about a 70 ASIC. I checked it because I wanted to see what is was.

I don't know what to say about the clown mention...
 
Voted yes to OC GPU :D.

Current GPU: Sapphire Fury X (Ref PCB/AIO cooler, factory TIM/pads), ASIC Quality 64.4%.

Stock GPU: DPM 7 1050MHz @ 1.212V VID
24/7 GPU OC: DPM 7 1145MHz @ 1.268V VID

Note:- I'm stating actual VID commanded by GPU, due to LLC and other "effects" my VDDC is lower (what shown in SW monitoring).

Stock HBM: 500MHz @ 1.300V MVDD
24/7 HBM OC: 545MHz @ 1.325V MVDD

OC was tested using combo of MSI AB and i2c commands to gain HBM MVDD increase. 24/7 OC is set via custom bios mod by me :) . I use a custom UEFI/GOP module in VBios courtesy of Lordkag of Fernando's WIN-Raid Forum :peace:. I require the custom UEFI/GOP module to allows "CSM Off" with modded VBios, so "pure UEFI" mode can be setup for Win 10 use (I could go legacy but wanted UEFI). I can not use "Secure boot" with my custom ROM/UEFI due to inability to update "signature", which is AOK by me :) , "Fast boot" works though :) .

GPU OC has been running since Mar 16, HBM a few months after that as a long term experiment of voltage increase effect on HBM. No issues in various games which are GPU heavy (ie Crysis 3, etc) for many hours. Over 3hrs each 3DM FS / Heaven / Valley / RealBench tested. Many hours of f@h done, my minimum run will be 12hrs and at times upto 48hrs continuous, not a single instant of "bad state" in f@h detected in my f@h runs :) .

My 3DM FS stock vs OC result, same driver/3DM UI version, driver defaults (ie no tess.tweak), no OS tweaks to improve bench result. HBM OC accounts for very little of the scaling gained from complete OC (IIRC max 1-2%). Plan to spend some time comparing FRAPS runs of games of stock vs OC, but not found the time, spent too much time OC'ing/tweaking rig so now plan to enjoy it :D .
 
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570m, 525mhz to 700mhz, it's certainly needed when trying these modern betas without resorting to minimum settings

yes, a laptop, with no voltage increase either
 
Of course I overclock it, why the hell not?
 
I overclock anything that is overclockable. It's a free performance, why the hell not?! :D
 
kn00tcn said:
570m, 525mhz to 700mhz, it's certainly needed when trying these modern betas without resorting to minimum settings

yes, a laptop, with no voltage increase either
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Fermi was notorious for impressive overclocks.
 
You could've taken the 6970 for that, at least same generation haha

You know of "vtec"? Basically the same experience haha
 
No OC. Card already goes to 1390mhz on stock.
 
I've overclocked every card i've ever owned. except for my current set of cards (GTX 780, GTX750ti, GTX860M)
 
If the "factory did it for you", its not an overclock........................If you think that is an overclock, than every single card that does not have reference clocks would be considered 'overclocked' in this poll regardless if you raised it from whatever clockspeed you got it at...makes no sense as written.


Anyway, I voted "yes". I overclock for benchmarking purposes (read Hwbot and reviews). Outside of that, when gaming, I just run stock.

ASOT said:
Depends on more..ASIC score, model of GPU,quality of PSU.

On some GPU overclocking to much can damage it or seen artefacts.

OC little is safe if u know how to do it. :)
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ASIC can give you an idea of how it will overclock (pre pascal of course). Model of GPU means nothing... same with the PSU really. An EVGA P2 1000W will overclock the Exact same as a Corsair CX500W with the same system/card in it.
 
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Ferrum Master said:
Did you try to unlock the clusters?
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Yes, yes I did. :rockout: Still not OC'ing tho.

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I VOTED NO BUT DONT COMPLAIN.... still wanna see those who did getting nice fps from it. i still very noob to oc my gpu thats why i always look for a FACTORY OC.
 
CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
I currently use Sapphire HD 7970 OC boost which I am very happy with. It plays the games i like admirably.

With my previous cards i have always at least tried to o/c and being honest i found the gains to be negligible so invariably i reverted the o/c.


So its quite a simple question.....do you or dont you? adding your o/c tool of choice might prove useful.
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depends on the card. some cards just don't OC. Fury X comes to mind as a fine example of that. GTX 9xx series cards OC like crazy, even the factory tuned ones. buying a 9xx series card and not ocing it is wasted potential.

RX 480 can OC pretty well too. i have one in an mITX rig i built strictly for VR in the living room. i think the reference clock is 1288 or something like that, but the card is OCed to 1342MHz from the factory. i pushed mine further to 1390MHz and it makes a hell of a difference. 4.3% increase in firestrike GPU score and extra 5% FPS or so in pretty much every game i tried.

the difference is even more profound with my GTX 980 Ti classified cards. 9% gain in firestrike GPU score and ~10% gain in FPS in EVERY game (factory OC vs my own OC): http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/10050227/fs/7437806
 
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Always, from my MX4000 (140% on the vram!), to my current HD7750, it's mandatory thanks to being a perpetual low-end user. The performance gains are usually excelent.
Heck, my current iGPU (ATI HD4000) can do a nice 100%, from 500 to 1000MHz. With that I can play Civ 5, League, TF2 or osu just fine at native resolution when I don't have my dGPU with me for any reason.

Now, if someone knows how can I overclock the Intel HD Graphics of my Celeron N3050 notebook, both me and Metal Gear Solid 5 would be very happy.
 
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Don't need to with mine as I'm on a NEC MultiSync LCD 1700V from 2001.
 
Card already factory OC'd but added more for core and memory so yes
 
Yes and i always do. At first i use MSI Afterburner to find max. stable clocks, then i modify and flash BIOS. My current MSI GTX 970 is happy with 1505MHz on core and 1840MHz on VRAM. Temps rarely hit +70C.
 
Kanan said:
Nice, now overclock it to 1050 MHz and you got yourself a Fury X air. :clap:
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Fine...it's now "Fury X on Air"... I guess I'll change my vote...
 
I clock the snot out of it. Beats punching it (usually).

My GeForce Titan X is firmly in heavily OC'd 1070 territory, which is rather impressive.
 
Always.

For GPU I use MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision

For CPU it's the BIOS/UEFI or MSI Control Center


Now that I have a 1070 a lot of games don't stress it enough to warrant an overclock but the times that I can't keep a 60FPS min it gets an OC. My CPU though is the weakness these days so it's always OCed.
 
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