Overclocked gtx 970 shows improvements in heaven benchmark but no improvements in games

Zemmex111

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Hello forum,

For the past week I've tried to overclock my Evga gtx 970 ftw. I overclocked it to +120MHz on the core and +520MHz on the memory with the power target set to 110%.

In unigine heaven benchmark I got a score improvement of 220 (around 2200) and about 10 fps more (about 87). In furmark my overclock looked stable at 64 degrees max with a 2 fps improvement.

When I benchmarked metro 2033 redux using their benchmarking tool and benchmarking some other games using fraps I got no improvements at all. I've tried to set the voltage to +25 and again no improvements. Even when I turned down my overclock I still didnt get any improvements.

What could be the problem?
 
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Yeah it will likely help in games that are held back by the cpu, also physics score in firestrike. Your motherboard and cooler should be able to take a 4.8ghz overclock no problem, 1.4-.1.45v VCORE should do the trick.

Its not a bad choice necessarily, unless you bought that CPU and mobo recently, then I think you could have spent your money better for a gaming system. The 8350 should utilize a 970...

jaffamanj

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Hello.
Please tell me you dont have vsync on? :D
anyway, it varies from game to game so you cant expect every game to improve when you overclock. Simple as that.
 

Zemmex111

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Yes i still am. Would turning my cpu overclock from 4.2 to 4.8 make a difference or is this cpu a bad choice for this gpu?
 

Zemmex111

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No, vsync is always off when I play games :)
 

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Yeah it will likely help in games that are held back by the cpu, also physics score in firestrike. Your motherboard and cooler should be able to take a 4.8ghz overclock no problem, 1.4-.1.45v VCORE should do the trick.

Its not a bad choice necessarily, unless you bought that CPU and mobo recently, then I think you could have spent your money better for a gaming system. The 8350 should utilize a 970 pretty well in all but the more cpu heavy titles.
 
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