How far can I overclock the Nvidia Palit 970?

The_Distinct · Apr 10, 2015

Hi, I've had my Palit 970 since December and I wanted to know if overclocking it using MSI Afterburner will increase performance. If overclocking it does increase performance how far can i push it.
Can Someone pls help?
Thanks.

13thmonkey · Apr 10, 2015

yes it will help, as to how far that depends on your card as each card and chip is different.

read some OC guides, it'll help you when you come across certain situations and you'll know better when you've gone too far as OC'ing is not without risk.

JackNaylorPE · Apr 10, 2015

The MSI and Gugabyte ones almost always hit boost clocks of 1500Mhz and above.... the Asus and EVGA struggle to get past 1465 or so. As to the Palit, they seem to be in Asus / EVGA territory.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/palit_geforce_gtx_970_jetstream_review,26.html

With AfterBurner we applied:

GPU clock +100 MHz
Power limiter 111%
Mem clock +450 MHz
Volatge + 87 Mv
FAN RPM 65% (remains fairly silent)

Overclocked to above settings
Core Clock 1252 MHz
Boost Clock: 1430~1443 MHz
Memory Clock: 7908 MHz

mcnumpty23 · Apr 10, 2015

depends how radical you want to get--but you can use maxwell bios tweaker to up the power limits--i am at 1600mhz on msi gtx970 and its got a little left yet---though my gtx970 is water cooled

JackNaylorPE · Apr 10, 2015

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_970_gaming_review,26.html

Core Clock 1325 MHz
Boost Clock: ~1501 MHz
Memory Clock: 8002 MHz

With AfterBurner we applied:

Temp Target 80 Degrees C
GPU clock +185 MHz
Power limiter 110%
Mem clock +500 MHz
Volatge + 87Mv
FAN RPM 70% (remains silent)

Is your default clock 1140 "as advertised" or 1114 like many out there ?

mcnumpty23 · Apr 10, 2015

my core clock? or the op?

mine is round the 1500mhz mark before boost but i have flashed a custom bios with higher power tables etc

The_Distinct · Apr 10, 2015

JackNaylorPE :

Would this work well with AMD 8320 and ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0
And i tried this and played batman arkham city but it crashed straight away

JackNaylorPE · Apr 10, 2015

I was speaking to the MSI card whose settings were in the MSI link

Original [Reference] GTX 970
Core Clock: 1050 MHz
Boost Clock: 1178 MHz
Memory Clock: 7000 MHz

This sample [MSI 980 "Outta the box"]
Core Clock: **1140 MHz**
Boost Clock: 1279 MHz
Memory Clock: 7000 MHz

Overclocked [MSI 970 manually OC'd]
Core Clock 1325 MHz
Boost Clock: ~1501 MHz
Memory Clock: 8002 MHz

The default core clock is listed as "default clock" in GPU-Z

JackNaylorPE · Apr 10, 2015

The_Distinct :

Board and CPU is generally immaterial.

Brand / model matters.... The MSI and Gigbayte have more OC headroom than the Asus and EVGA

What PSU you have matters as better voltage regulation and lower ripple (noise) helps stability

Interior case temps matter

And, simply the variation in quality from one chip to another results in a large variance in success

The_Distinct · Apr 10, 2015

JackNaylorPE :

Its 1152 MHz

JackNaylorPE · Apr 10, 2015

The card AFAIK was not offered in that speed.... the 1140 or 1114 is hard coded in the BIOS. Did you edit / change the BIOS ?

The_Distinct · Apr 10, 2015

JackNaylorPE :

I overclocked my CPU from 3.5GHz to 4GHz thats all i changed in the bios

JackNaylorPE · Apr 10, 2015

I'm talking about the GPU BIOS.

Newegg says the default clock is 1140
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127832&cm_re=msi_970-_-14-127-832-_-Product

Guru3D says 1140
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/palit_geforce_gtx_970_jetstream_review,26.html

MSI says it's now 1114
http://gaming.msi.com/products/graphics-card/twin-frozr-v-series

TechPowerup now says 1114
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_970_Gaming/

Can't find any sources saying it's 1152

The_Distinct · Apr 11, 2015

JackNaylorPE :

I'm not using an MSI card, I'm using a Palit card and the default clock on that card is 1152MHz

JackNaylorPE · Apr 11, 2015

Geez how'd we get off on this tangent....

I responded to a post saying

depends how radical you want to get--but you can use maxwell bios tweaker to up the power limits--i am at 1600mhz on msi gtx970 and its got a little left yet---though my gtx970 is water cooled

And asked the MSI owner

Is your default clock 1140 "as advertised" or 1114 like many out there ?

I was speaking to the MSI card whose settings were in the MSI link

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