How far will the GTX 960 overclock?

_TheD0ct0r_ · Dec 31, 2016

I see lots of people getting 60+mhz on the core and 200+ mhz on the memory, but is that really as high as the GTX 960 will go? Could you not go further than that with voltage adjustments or is that with max voltage? Because I am overclocking my GPU, and the temps are stable no matter what my voltage is set to, but I cannot for the life of me seem to get rid of flickers and artifacts when stability testing, and my clocks are a bit less than what the average person seems to get:

My core: 51MHz
My memory: 165MHz
My voltage: +50mV

EDIT: My card, EVGA GTX 960 SSC 2GB
also, how do I know if the VRMS are being cooled adequately?

PC-4LIFE · Dec 31, 2016

I wouldn't recommend touching the voltage. It doesn't matter what your temperatures are, increasing voltage will degrade your GPU faster. If it starts artifacting, go back a bit until it doesn't. That's your max speed.

Everything overclocks differently, even 2 GPU's of the same model. 1 may get 100mz extra, while the other may not overclock at all.

_TheD0ct0r_ · Dec 31, 2016

PC-4LIFE :

Ive heard everywhere that touching voltage is fine for two reasons:
1. It just adds headroom, giving what the card needs depending on the overclock
2. It adds heat. If your cooling is adequate, then it will hardly degrade faster at all.

My card stays below 70 degrees Celsius, so I think im good.

Aside from all that, I noticed that increasing the voltage increases my core clock as well, thus making the artifact worse. Why would increasing voltage raise my core clock? I thought it was supposed to help stabilize current overclocks set by the user?

PC-4LIFE · Jan 1, 2017

_TheD0ct0r_ :

Not everything's about temperature. The higher the voltage, the faster the circuits deteriorate on your GPU, thus lessening its life span.

Overvolting can give you headroom, but not always. All GPU's have a limit, and every limit is different. This is due to imperfections during manufacturing.

_TheD0ct0r_ · Jan 1, 2017

PC-4LIFE :

UPDATE: ok, i have found that the card has a max voltage of 1.237. Which, according to most sources ive found, is quite low and stable. When i increase the voltage to this value, my core clock increases, so what i did is i backed down to what would be my max clock without the voltage. I compared the two and the voltage helped a lot. It didnt even raise the temperature at all. Seeing as the old unstable clock was now stable, i pushed it further, squeezing an extra 2mhz out of it for a clock speed of 1512MHz. (I also managed 200+ on the memory with no artifacts. I will continue playing with this) i would call that a good overclock for the 960. Also, you pointed out that overclocking degrades the card faster. Yes, it does technically, but the cards life span will still be as long as its relevance

PC-4LIFE · Jan 1, 2017

_TheD0ct0r_ :

PC-4LIFE :

UPDATE: ok, i have found that the card has a max voltage of 1.237. Which, according to most sources ive found, is quite low and stable. When i increase the voltage to this value, my core clock increases, so what i did is i backed down to what would be my max clock without the voltage. I compared the two and the voltage helped a lot. It didnt even raise the temperature at all. Seeing as the old unstable clock was now stable, i pushed it further, squeezing an extra 2mhz out of it for a clock speed of 1512MHz. (I also managed 200+ on the memory with no artifacts. I will continue playing with this) i would call that a good overclock for the 960. Also, you pointed out that overclocking degrades the card faster. Yes, it does technically, but the cards life span will still be as long as its relevance

Suit yourself.

TBH, anything less than 50MHz will have no noticeable impact.

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