- Aug 11, 2014
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Hello.
So I just got a new Zotac GTX 960 Amp Edition to replace my old GTX 750. I saw some pretty good improvement in my games. But as the title suggests, I can't seem to overclock this card to its full potential like it has been told in the reviews. I can successfully get the memory clock to about +150-200MHz. But the core clock refuses to go beyond +50MHz. I have the temperature and the power limit maxed out and tried setting the priority on each of them, but could never run a benchmark successfully. I tried the 3dMark fire strike benchmark and it always crashes in the second graphics test. Was able to run Batman: Arkham Knight for about 15 minutes before it crashed too. The temperature never goes beyond 66c in fire strike and 72c in Batman. So is there something I could do to get a better clock speed? Because, as far as the reviews show, this card to easily go upto 1500MHz. But my card refuses to go beyond 1418MHz. I could try increasing the voltage, but I'm a bit reluctant to do it because I don't want to damage the card. If it helps, my specs are
CPU: Intel i5-4440 @ 3.10GHz
RAM: Kingston HyperX 8GB @ 1600MHz
PSU: Corsair 450 Watt (Don't remember the exact model number)
Windows 10
and I'm using MSI afterburner v4.2.0
with nVidia 368.69 drivers.
So I just got a new Zotac GTX 960 Amp Edition to replace my old GTX 750. I saw some pretty good improvement in my games. But as the title suggests, I can't seem to overclock this card to its full potential like it has been told in the reviews. I can successfully get the memory clock to about +150-200MHz. But the core clock refuses to go beyond +50MHz. I have the temperature and the power limit maxed out and tried setting the priority on each of them, but could never run a benchmark successfully. I tried the 3dMark fire strike benchmark and it always crashes in the second graphics test. Was able to run Batman: Arkham Knight for about 15 minutes before it crashed too. The temperature never goes beyond 66c in fire strike and 72c in Batman. So is there something I could do to get a better clock speed? Because, as far as the reviews show, this card to easily go upto 1500MHz. But my card refuses to go beyond 1418MHz. I could try increasing the voltage, but I'm a bit reluctant to do it because I don't want to damage the card. If it helps, my specs are
CPU: Intel i5-4440 @ 3.10GHz
RAM: Kingston HyperX 8GB @ 1600MHz
PSU: Corsair 450 Watt (Don't remember the exact model number)
Windows 10
and I'm using MSI afterburner v4.2.0
with nVidia 368.69 drivers.
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