GTX 960 very high core clock, I'm confused.

ChrisGowns

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So this is my first time overclocking. I started moving my core clock up in increments of +10 on afterburner, capped at +170, and then increased the memory to +120.
I then tried increasing the core clock again to see what happened.

I am currently on +800 and it is running without any visual errors, and my power % has barely even moved. Am i doing something extremely wrong, or is this normal in certain circumstances?
Even though I've increased the core clock this much, my benchmark's FPS don't seem to be improving anyway. It can read my MHz for graphics and memory. My benchmark is Heaven DX11. Is it possible that my CPU, i7 4790k is bottlenecking it?

Graphics: 2255 MHz
Memory: 3004 MHz
Temp: 48 degrees
 
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You could set your boost target at +800, but the driver/graphics card may not actually run that fast. Instead, it will dynamically adjust the clock speed based on heat/temperature/clock/load. Core i7 4790k, even without overclocking, is very fast and will not be a source of bottlenecking even for GeForce GTX 970/980 etc

George Phillips

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You could set your boost target at +800, but the driver/graphics card may not actually run that fast. Instead, it will dynamically adjust the clock speed based on heat/temperature/clock/load. Core i7 4790k, even without overclocking, is very fast and will not be a source of bottlenecking even for GeForce GTX 970/980 etc
 
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