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Bah dissapointed with OC MSI gaming GTX970

Geekazoid

Geekazoid

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was really hoping I can achieve 1600mhz golden mark

after overclocking MSI gaming reached 1502 to 1516 core MHz OC (Boost) and 1966.5 MHz on memory (what's the effective memory? 1966.5x4??)

this is on stock volts and 110% power limit...

Although I didn't reach my peak TDP (didn't win the lottery)

ASIC quality at 75.4%

what have other people got with the gaming 970's?

I'm still happy though I had enough with OCing and watching benchmarks all day time to game...
 
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You could always looking into bios modding to unlock that extra performance. The pack leader is only the pack leader (G1) because it has the least stingy bios. You know what I mean?
 
1600MHZ will only be achievable with volt modding as Nvidia gimped a lot of the cards at 1.21v, You should soon be able to unlock voltage properly with the help of the bios modding community, I myself am keeping an eye out on it as I was able to get 1557 and 2200 on my 980 so hoping on a little bit more maybe the 1600 mark with the volt mod :)
 
almighty15 said:
BIOS modding is available now, I've modded my 2 cards but adding more volts doesn't seem to help in 99% of cases.
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It won't.
1.20-1.25v max for air.
1.25-1.30v max for water.
1.45-1.65v max for LN2.

Maxwell only likes voltage under LN2.
 
1600MHZ will only be achievable with volt modding as Nvidia gimped a lot of the cards at 1.21v, You should soon be able to unlock voltage properly with the help of the bios modding community, I myself am keeping an eye out on it as I was able to get 1557 and 2200 on my 980 so hoping on a little bit more maybe the 1600 mark with the volt mod
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but they dont even saturate the tdp of 110%... I would understand the more volts thing if the tdp was saturated then more juice would open em up...

its a shame they cool running cards... dont get me wrong through 1500mhz on core is not bad and a big step up on performance from my 2 6970's.
 
Max i've hit is 1620 something. Memory goes to 8400

The cards actually pull more than volts. With a multi meter my MSI shows that it pulls 1.3v on air
 
Geekazoid said:
was really hoping I can achieve 1600mhz golden mark

after overclocking MSI gaming reached 1502 to 1516 core MHz OC (Boost) and 1966.5 MHz on memory (what's the effective memory? 1966.5x4??)

this is on stock volts and 110% power limit...

Although I didn't reach my peak TDP (didn't win the lottery)

ASIC quality at 75.4%

what have other people got with the gaming 970's?

I'm still happy though I had enough with OCing and watching benchmarks all day time to game...
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Why put your are disappointed in the title then put you are happy at the end ?
 
Disappointed about not achieving a ridiculous clock on air. The fact that a lot of them do 1500mhz 24/7 stable is surprising enough, the clocks you see in the bench threads on other cards are usually on water or have silly volts going through them and aren't 24/7 game stable.
 
Wouldn't achieving 1600MHz boost essentially put your card as one of the top 970s in the world though? I get that it would be nice to have, but it's a bit like saying you're disappointed every week because you didn't win the lottery.
 
Ayahuasca said:
Disappointed about not achieving a ridiculous clock on air. The fact that a lot of them do 1500mhz 24/7 stable is surprising enough, the clocks you see in the bench threads on other cards are usually on water or have silly volts going through them and aren't 24/7 game stable.
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Bang on the money.
 
Ayahuasca said:
Disappointed about not achieving a ridiculous clock on air. The fact that a lot of them do 1500mhz 24/7 stable is surprising enough, the clocks you see in the bench threads on other cards are usually on water or have silly volts going through them and aren't 24/7 game stable.
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Yer, spot on. I would be happy with 1500Mhz in honesty and that is plenty to chew through nearly all games at max details and 1080P. SLI for more will be sweet when nVidia get scaling back to how it should be.
 
I can bench at 1506mhz and game stable at 1450mhz, I wouldn't be too dissapointed with you OC - sounds above average results tbh.
 
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