Hi everyone. I'm only a few months out from building my first PC, and only began to attempt OCing yesterday, so apologies in advance if I'm missing anything obvious. I also tried searching the forums with no luck, so I hope this hasn't been addressed before.
I took my OC settings from this article: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2014/09/29/msi_geforce_gtx_970_gaming_4g_video_card_review/8#.V2vaq7grKUn
And here is my parts list:
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/xGbMGX
I set up a profile in Afterburner with the exact settings they use in the "Overclocking Without Voltage" section, applied it, and GPU-Z does reflect the same increased GPU clock and boost as the article above when this profile is active. However, after running Unigine Heaven for some time (1920x1080, Ultra quality, Extreme tessellation, x8 AA), GPU-Z show my full-load at far lower levels than what they saw at hardocp. Here are my maximum results below:
GPU Core Clock: 1468.9
CPU Memory Clock: 2000.7
GPU Temperature: 69
Fan Speed: 58%
Fan Speed (RPM): 1345
Memory Used: 1332
GPU Load: 100%
Memory Controller Load: 67%
Video Engine Load: 0%
Bus Interface Load: 20%
Power Consumption: 95.3%
PerfCap Reason: Util
VDDC: 1.2120
What I'm noticing is that my memory used is only about 64% of what their tests produced, my memory controller load is much lower, my voltage is for some reason higher, and what seems worst to me is that my power consumption reaches only 95.3%.
With an admittedly basic understanding of all this, it seems that with my Afterburner OC profile set to 110% Power Limit I should be seeing Power Consumption around there in GPU-Z, as they do in the article. With my Power Consumption reflecting <100%, I would have interpreted that as my card not overclocking at all if I weren't also seeing the increased clocks registered in GPU-Z.
Is this due to the lower memory usage, in which case would my RAM likely be faulty? Or my slightly higher VDDC, and would that suggest a bad PSU? I also notice GPU-Z lists "PerfCap Reason: Util;" I'm not entirely sure what that means, but if it pertains to the Nvidia Control Panel Power Management Mode, I have mine set to "Prefer Maximum Performance."
Any help or suggestions here would be hugely appreciated. I've read probably a dozen tutorials on overclocking now and can't find any steps I've missed, so I'm pretty in the dark at this point. Again, thank you for any help!
I took my OC settings from this article: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2014/09/29/msi_geforce_gtx_970_gaming_4g_video_card_review/8#.V2vaq7grKUn
And here is my parts list:
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/xGbMGX
I set up a profile in Afterburner with the exact settings they use in the "Overclocking Without Voltage" section, applied it, and GPU-Z does reflect the same increased GPU clock and boost as the article above when this profile is active. However, after running Unigine Heaven for some time (1920x1080, Ultra quality, Extreme tessellation, x8 AA), GPU-Z show my full-load at far lower levels than what they saw at hardocp. Here are my maximum results below:
GPU Core Clock: 1468.9
CPU Memory Clock: 2000.7
GPU Temperature: 69
Fan Speed: 58%
Fan Speed (RPM): 1345
Memory Used: 1332
GPU Load: 100%
Memory Controller Load: 67%
Video Engine Load: 0%
Bus Interface Load: 20%
Power Consumption: 95.3%
PerfCap Reason: Util
VDDC: 1.2120
What I'm noticing is that my memory used is only about 64% of what their tests produced, my memory controller load is much lower, my voltage is for some reason higher, and what seems worst to me is that my power consumption reaches only 95.3%.
With an admittedly basic understanding of all this, it seems that with my Afterburner OC profile set to 110% Power Limit I should be seeing Power Consumption around there in GPU-Z, as they do in the article. With my Power Consumption reflecting <100%, I would have interpreted that as my card not overclocking at all if I weren't also seeing the increased clocks registered in GPU-Z.
Is this due to the lower memory usage, in which case would my RAM likely be faulty? Or my slightly higher VDDC, and would that suggest a bad PSU? I also notice GPU-Z lists "PerfCap Reason: Util;" I'm not entirely sure what that means, but if it pertains to the Nvidia Control Panel Power Management Mode, I have mine set to "Prefer Maximum Performance."
Any help or suggestions here would be hugely appreciated. I've read probably a dozen tutorials on overclocking now and can't find any steps I've missed, so I'm pretty in the dark at this point. Again, thank you for any help!
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