Overclocking Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960-4GB

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R3v01v3r

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Hi guy’s just wondering if the community can help me get a nice overclock on my GPU. I recently got a nice and stable overclock on my CPU http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3438329/overclocking-asus-z97-pro-gamer-intel-core-4790k-00ghz-cpu.html but now I am trying to get the best out of my Graphics Card with the current OC with the CPU.
The Clocking I have right now on my GPU is
GPU clock +160 MHz
Power limiter 134%
Mem clock +450 MHz
Voltage +100 Mv
FAN RPM 50% (slightly audible)
Just wondering if someone that has more experience with this card can elaborate if this clock is safe. I haven’t bricked yet or seen any blue screen so I guess I haven’t gone too far thank goodness.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

After the help from the individuals bellow I was able to get a nice testing complete with a cool program GPU use OCCT's GPU stress test,
I worked out TechyInAz was spot-on about the Mv maybe to high I was able to get it to run on these settings instead.

GPU Clock +160MHz
Power limiter 134%
Mem Clock +450MHz
Voltage 63Mv
Fan RPM 50% Slightly audible.

Thanks guys for your help.
 
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bgunner
I to can not speak for the voltage But for testing the GPU use OCCT's GPU stress test with error checking enabled. Set the shader limit to 3 for Nvidia or 7 for AMD GPU's, if you ever decide to OC one of them, and set the ram to 2000. Do not use the PC while running this test or it will give you a false positive error. Run this test for 30 mins each time unless you get an error, if so you can stop immediately.

Overclock one clock at a time, meaning, find the highest stable Core frequency write it down then set it to stock move on to Memory,then shader clock. Once you have all your maximum frequency's try them together to see if the GPU will remain stable with all set to maximum. If not start to lower one and see if it stabilizes...
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Okay thanks for your reply so quickly.
So you think bring down the Mv might be the only issue I may face being at 100?
If so what would you set it at if it was your GPU I do a lot of multimedia stuff etc after effect plus play a fair few games on Steam so i'd like to keep it balanced of cause :)
 
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I to can not speak for the voltage But for testing the GPU use OCCT's GPU stress test with error checking enabled. Set the shader limit to 3 for Nvidia or 7 for AMD GPU's, if you ever decide to OC one of them, and set the ram to 2000. Do not use the PC while running this test or it will give you a false positive error. Run this test for 30 mins each time unless you get an error, if so you can stop immediately.

Overclock one clock at a time, meaning, find the highest stable Core frequency write it down then set it to stock move on to Memory,then shader clock. Once you have all your maximum frequency's try them together to see if the GPU will remain stable with all set to maximum. If not start to lower one and see if it stabilizes and do the same of the other clocks and so on.

Like Techy mentioned see if the voltage is harmful to the GPU other wise move on you the steps I mentioned. This will give you your maximum overclock on the GPU.
 
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R3v01v3r

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Thanks I'll give that test a run and i'll post the results
I went to this website and found some interesting info on my card maybe this would help with the voltage limits. I am pretty new to OC'n the GPU.
http://techreport.com/review/27806/five-geforce-gtx-960-cards-overclocked/2

 
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Tried at Mv 50% and the OCCT quacked at me lol, and stopped, put the Mv back to 100 and ran the test which completed at around 25 minutes and started monitoring, the card got to 70 degrees total, CPU stayed at around 37 degrees. Thank you for your help this has 100% been a good overclock too. I have no place to upload the results but the OC is working very nice. Thank you once again for the tech help.
 
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