Overclocking Gigabyte G1 980 without increasing voltage

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testudoAubreii

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Hello,


I am very new to overclocking and I was wondering if anyone could steer me in the right direction. I would like to overclock my G1 GTX980, but I would like to do it without touching the voltage. Essentaily, I am looking for an overclock to put me up with, let's say, the EVGA 980FTW. Is it possible on stock voltage and how would I go about doing it?


I know I can use Gigabyte's Guru, EVGA's Precision or MSI Afterburner. However, that is the extent of my overclocking knowledge lol.


Thank you in advance for any and all help, suggestion and advice.
 
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Use one of those programs and move the slider till it crashes. It's pretty simple. Whether it could match the FTW edition is all based on the make quality of the specific card you have (the model has nothing to do with this).
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Use one of those programs and move the slider till it crashes. It's pretty simple. Whether it could match the FTW edition is all based on the make quality of the specific card you have (the model has nothing to do with this).
 
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Thank you for your response!

So, I can use any of these programs? It doesn't have to be brand specific? What would I have to do to test, maybe run bench or stress test? What kind?

In your opinion, is it feasible to reach those slight overclocks on my card?

Thank you!
 
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I was able to OC my EVGA 780Ti Classifieds in SLI using PrecisionX by 101Mhz without having to touch the voltage. Granted my card is made for OC'ing. In your case, use the program you prefer the most brand and make really don't matter. However, I think that if you have an EVGA card then PrecisionX would be the one to use just because they made it and optimized it for their cards. But, you don't have to use PrecisionX if you didn't want to.

In regards to tests, there are quite a few of them. MSI has a burn test, Unigine has Unigine Heaven and Unigine Valley (Valley is more current), Furmark is another (kind of out dated) burn test, and there are a couple other that all come up with Google searches.

And speaking of it being feasible to OC your GPU, it is. But, how much could you OC it without adjusting the voltage? I couldn't say.
 
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Okay, so all that I did was tick up the GPU Offset Clock to +63, which brought me to 1293 MHz and it boosted up to around 1455 MHz. I played a lot of Far Cry 4 and I had no crashing or artifacts. The card stayed below70 degrees and did not dip below 60 FPS, at all. In fact, I had really high FPS. Does this mean that I essentially have a Classified card? I mean, I set the clocks based on that card's specification.

I am going to run some more tests, but it seems to be working pretty great.
 
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I recommend what Xtrem did as well. And even though you have a good card and it is currently running at the speed of a stock classified, it is still not comparable to the OC'ing ability of the classified version. The classified has been fully unlocked and comes with better voltage handling and cooling most of the time. This allows it to go above and beyond what your card could do even if you adjusted the voltage to help increase the OC. But, don't be discouraged. You have a good card.
 
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I have been gaming and temps and stability seem to be running pretty good. I just ran Unengine and that is what I scored (Ultra/2x AA/1080p):

Unigine Valley Benchmark 1.0
FPS:
101.2
Score:
4235
Min FPS:
33.3
Max FPS:
187.9

This is the first time I have ever tested or benchmarked. Is this a good score?
 
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Now there are very good reaults. I will not recommend to overclock it more. You already overclocked too much and really got a good score. Overclocking GPU a little gives good increase in Fps and resulting good graphics in games. But if you overclocked too much, then GPU will always have a risk to damage. Also it will decrease the life span to larger extent. So, you must have to be happy with these scores. These are really good. Now you have to be happy in this and don't expect too much from GPU about overclocking. Now, just open a bottle of wine and enjoy your unleashed graphics card. :)
 
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lol...thanks! I will do!

Is it strange that the overclock reset after I rebooted my PC?
 
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Thanks!




Alrighty, here is what I have. I switched to 3DMark, and here are my scores. I think they are pretty good, right? And, here is the highest overclock that I could get with stock voltage:




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What do you think?
 
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I have the same card and You can do much better by simply increasing the Power Target slider all the way ..Don't worry its very safe.

Here are my results before and after overclocking ..


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I reached better scores but this was the most stable overclock I could reach without increasing the voltage. Increasing the voltage pushed my Temps to 80+ which am not comfortable with.
 
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testudoAubreii

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Thanks for your response!
How much more of a performance boost will I get from that move? I crashed with the offset at +170. I really do not want to mess with the voltage, though. I think this is pretty good. Do you think this is a good overclock on stock voltage?
 
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170 is excellent ..am at 180 myself but it took me a lot of time and effort to fine tune everything since, like you, I don't really want to increase voltage.
If I go +185 without voltage increase I immediately start getting artifacts and going up to +195 simply results in crash after crash.

180 is stable in games and temps never go beyond 70. So ....yey!

And the difference in games like Metro Last Light and Crysis 3 is about 10-15 FPS. Which is pretty damn cool.

 
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Thank you for your response!

I figure that if I can get anywhere from 10-15 FPS in game, that will allow me to push up the AA all of the way, since that is about what it takes away when applied.

I wonder if I can manage 180 on game. I definitely know it will crash 3DMark, but is that not made to stress your GPU beyond realistic, or everyday, use?


 
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