Safe Overclock Range for MSI GTX 1080 Aero OC

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It'll greatly depend on how lucky you were in the silicon lottery, how cold you can keep the GPU and how much time you have to adjust your voltage / frequency curve. I have yet to see a 1080 that can't run at 2100+ on air, and in some cases, as high as 2202+ on air, with the right voltage / frequency curve.

The aero has a blower style cooler, which means it's going to have issues staying cool enough to get a decent overclock out of it, and even if you did, it's a reference board, which means you'll likely run into a power limit road block.

I would guess, on your GPU, with the restrictions it's going to have, 2100 would be a very good overclock.
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thx1138v2

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Overclocking is, by definition, working outside the guaranteed specs of whatever device you are overclocking. The ability to overclock is dependent on the specific chips on your component. So there's no way to say whether or not it will overclock at all without just trying it.

Search "semiconductor chip binning". There's no way to know whether your specific chip met the minimum or maximum test specifications for the bin in which it was placed. If it met minimum test specs, it probably won't overclock at all. If it met maximum test specs for that bin it will probably over clock very well. But you can't knoiw until you try it.

Read the overclocking disclaimers.
 
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Ahmed Andaleeb

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Thank you for replying, I'm aware of all that.
What I would like are comments from other MSI Aero OC users on how far they managed to overclock theirs. That's all, just to get an idea. Or any other GTX 1080 of similar build and capability.

 
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It'll greatly depend on how lucky you were in the silicon lottery, how cold you can keep the GPU and how much time you have to adjust your voltage / frequency curve. I have yet to see a 1080 that can't run at 2100+ on air, and in some cases, as high as 2202+ on air, with the right voltage / frequency curve.

The aero has a blower style cooler, which means it's going to have issues staying cool enough to get a decent overclock out of it, and even if you did, it's a reference board, which means you'll likely run into a power limit road block.

I would guess, on your GPU, with the restrictions it's going to have, 2100 would be a very good overclock.
 
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