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Gripen90

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Overclocking high-end hardware to achieve better yields is always popular, but often I find doing the same with "lesser" hardware is equally as fun and some times even more rewarding in a sense of achievement :D

So there fore I'd like to adress GT 1030 owners and hear what kind of overclocks you have managed to squeeze out of your cards :cool:

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My Gigabyte GT 1030 Low Profile 2GB I tried overclocking to +600MHz on the Vram and it would run fine through 3Dmark Fire Strike and games like Overwatch, Rocket League,GTA 5, but in Unigine Heaven 4.0 I would get purple flickering stars appearing randomly in the benchmark.
So I had to back down the Vram overclock to +350MHz and then all is fine. The core clock however I run at +250MHz, and haven't tried higher or played with voltages - yet :p
Temperature wise the card maxes out at 65°c.
 
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Personally I don't see the point. You get what 5% more performance at best but have to run the fan fully maxxed out.

Plus memory doesn't have heatsinks, etc on it. Your risking killing it unless you have a fan inside the chassis pointed at the card.
 
Whilst I appreciate your passion, I think you will struggle to find many people who even own recent low end cards (due to the poor price/performance vs older used cards).

The issue with overclocking lower end cards, is that they are so constrained to begin with. E.g. overclocking the core on a 1030 by 10mhz, only yields about 8 GFLOPS additional processing power, the same 10mhz on a 1070 yields 38 GFLOPS. The more shaders you have (or the wider the memory bus), the more performance you gain by actually overclocking.


Slightly Off topic, but current low-end cards from both manufacturers are terrible value for money - £60-70 for a 1030 or 550, but an extra £20-30 doubles the performance with a 1050 or 560 (in this case actually double the shaders over a 550).
 
Armageus said:
Whilst I appreciate your passion, I think you will struggle to find many people who even own recent low end cards (due to the poor price/performance vs older used cards).

The issue with overclocking lower end cards, is that they are so constrained to begin with. E.g. overclocking the core on a 1030 by 10mhz, only yields about 8 GFLOPS additional processing power, the same 10mhz on a 1070 yields 38 GFLOPS. The more shaders you have (or the wider the memory bus), the more performance you gain by actually overclocking.
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Overclocking Low end and or low end and old cards I find fun personally, I dont spend much for such things £5 here or there for kicks but its fun trying to clock volt and bench the S*** out of small GPUS.

For example I was being made redundant back in June and there was a load of old hardware being (don’t worry i found a new job with a 1/3 paid bump within a month) one bit was this single slot half height ATI card so I knew it was old. Took the tiny cooler off and to try and find out what it was. The markings gave no clue even after googling and the SN lable had dropped off years ago.

Turned out to be a HD5570, took off the tiny active cooler (which idled the GPU @40c) modded an old CPU heatsink, borrowed my mates soldering iron volted and clocked it to death, got almost 50% more performance out of it in there end...... For science as after all the thing could run anything modern at any sort of playable frames.

Was fun anyway :)
 
The GT 1030 is awesome as a passive card in an HTPC; which is where it makes more sense than higher performing cards. However I wouldn't buy one for overclocking.
 
people don't really buy 1030's to game on or overclock. it's pointless.

also it's been said your better off undervolting cards now as it provides a more stable boost speed due to reduced temps and therefore undervolting actually gives you more power overall as your not being downclocked when heat kicks in.
 
Sometimes its not about what makes sense from a budget standpoint but what is fun. I can totally understand the OP's desire to do this even with a 1080ti in my machine. If you are a proper tinkering soul yourself you would certainly understand that it's about getting a fix for that curiosity of yours.
 
KillBoY_UK said:
Overclocking Low end and or low end and old cards I find fun personally, I dont spend much for such things £5 here or there for kicks but its fun trying to clock volt and bench the S*** out of small GPUS.

For example I was being made redundant back in June and there was a load of old hardware being (don’t worry i found a new job with a 1/3 paid bump within a month) one bit was this single slot half height ATI card so I knew it was old. Took the tiny cooler off and to try and find out what it was. The markings gave no clue even after googling and the SN lable had dropped off years ago.

Turned out to be a HD5570, took off the tiny active cooler (which idled the GPU @40c) modded an old CPU heatsink, borrowed my mates soldering iron volted and clocked it to death, got almost 50% more performance out of it in there end...... For science as after all the thing could run anything modern at any sort of playable frames.

Was fun anyway :)
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Yup. That is what it is about. Low end cards by nature can normally clock higher if you have the ability to play with voltage etc. Sometimes they are just restricted by the poor original coolers.

I have jury rigged stuff in the past and been pleasantly impressed with the bump in perf.

If anything, playing around with cheap as chips cards and hardware modding can give you experience for doing it to higher end cards.

Hell, I have a full time job 38 to 50 hours and a second job with 20 hours just to pay the bills whilst my wife is sick with chronic fatigue, so low end gpus are probably all I will likely get to tinker with for a while. So please do share your experiences with these cards
 
I game on a passive 710, runs 5 mu clients fine or 2 eve clients, runs at 98°c tho lolz lucky thermal limit is 102 when I checked, forget the peeps poo pooing gaming on a 1030 :-P
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Personally I don't see the point. You get what 5% more performance at best but have to run the fan fully maxxed out.

Plus memory doesn't have heatsinks, etc on it. Your risking killing it unless you have a fan inside the chassis pointed at the card.
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That's all assumptions. On this card particular card the Vram are under the heatsink and is cooled by that and the fan.
Overclocking high-end card as gtx 1080 etc some times also just give a 5% increase but people still overclock them.
Before the gt 1030 I was using a passive gt 710 2GB which I also overclocked to the max and it gave me a 5~7fps increase for free.
With the gt 1030 only being a 30watt card heat isn't really going to be a problem. With the overclock I have applied to it, it still maxes out at 65°c with default fan speed - same noise and temperature as before overclocking, but with a 8~10fps increase in all games and again for free. Often we see the same fps increase on high-end cards, so there is really no difference.
Overclocking low end cards is just generally frowned upon, but the increases in performance/fps can be the same.

I'm using the gt 1030 in an old emachines el1352 slim line pc which I'm using as a small htpc in the living room. It only has room for a single slot card s due to the motherboard layout and it also only has a 220watt flex psu.
Originally it came with an AMD Athlon II X2 245 dual core 2.9GHz cpu, 4gb DDR3 ram and on board geforce 6150se graphics, and it wouldn't play anything not even 1080p Youtube Videos properly. I then upgraded it to an AMD Athlon II X2 265 3.3GHz dual core, 6gb DDR3 ram, Gt 710 2GB, and then it could play 1080p Youtube Videos fine, and I was also able to play some games like Track mania, Bioshock, Call of duty 3 etc.
I then researched what the max I could upgrade the cpu and ram to on the motherboard and I finally got it upgraded to AMD Phenom II X4 840 3.2GHz Quad core, 8gb DDR3 1333mhz, GT 1030 2GB and still using the 220watt psu, and now 4k video playback is possible and I'm playing GTA 5 (high settings) , Bioshock Infinite(high settings) , Battlefield 1(medium settings) , Overwatch (high settings) on this little machine now in the living room. The GT 1030 2GB gave me almost 3 times more performance than the GT 710 2GB.

I just find it more rewarding to get something to play very nicely on hardware people just would have written off as junk.

I know the GT 1030 isn't the best value option as such, but it does have its place in Small Form Factor pc's with limited resources, and it really can give such machines a new lease on life.
Performance wise the GT 1030 is between a GTX 750 and 750Ti.
 
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Ok since when was OCUK bought out by 'grumpy old men.com'.
This is an Overclockers forum, and this is the graphics card section, last time I checked.
I bet you'll get a bigger percentage boost from clocking a 1030 than you will clocking any other 10 series card.:)
 
bru said:
I bet you'll get a bigger percentage boost from clocking a 1030 than you will clocking any other 10 series card.:)
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How does that work? Having less shaders, texture units, rops, means that you get less increase per mhz. Same with a narrower memory bus.

Practical example - if you have both a 3 lane motorway running at 60mph and a dual carriageway at 60mph, which carries more traffic. Increase them both by 10mph, and which gains more? (3x 10mph gain vs 2x 10mph gain)
 
I really had hoped the thread would inspire and make GT 1030 owners (if any) share their numbers and experiences, instead of creating af debate whether or not overclocking a low end card makes sense. People overclock low end CPU's all the time so I can't see it should be any different with graphics cards. Yes the amount of gain varies but it is nevertheless a gain, meaning you get more than from the outset.

I know this is only a synthetic test, but overall it pretty much depicts the gains I have seen in games by overclocking the card, meaning in some titles in medium settings I could go from 55FPS average to now 62FPS average.
3DMark Score Sky Diver
8 996
9 608 + 6.8 %
Graphics Score
11 923
13 224 + 10.9 %
Physics Score
4 175
4 198 + 0.6 %
Combined Score
8 112
8 600 + 6.0 %
Graphics Test 1
55.74 fps
61.62 fps + 10.5 %
Graphics Test 2
53.20 fps
59.21 fps + 11.3 %
8 threads
70.07 fps
72.59 fps + 3.6 %
24 threads
42.18 fps
42.39 fps + 0.5 %
48 threads
24.42 fps
24.55 fps + 0.6 %
96 threads
0.00 fps
0.00 fps
Combined Test
33.38 fps
35.39 fps + 6.0 %
Compare link: https://www.3dmark.com/compare/sd/4790599/sd/4790596
 
Armageus said:
How does that work? Having less shaders, texture units, rops, means that you get less increase per mhz. Same with a narrower memory bus.

Practical example - if you have both a 3 lane motorway running at 60mph and a dual carriageway at 60mph, which carries more traffic. Increase them both by 10mph, and which gains more? (3x 10mph gain vs 2x 10mph gain)
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Somebody obviously has no idea how percentages work.:rolleyes:
 
I looked at TPU's relative performance page. My 4870 is apparently 75% of the gt 1030's performance. I will be giving it a miss lol.

Although, if you are looking, I would be tempted to get the passive cooled version, and strap 120mm fan to it.
 
Scougar said:
I looked at TPU's relative performance page. My 4870 is apparently 75% of the gt 1030's performance. I will be giving it a miss lol.

Although, if you are looking, I would be tempted to get the passive cooled version, and strap 120mm fan to it.
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It performs between a GTX 750 and GTX 750Ti. Overclocked its much closer to the 750Ti though - I had one a couple of years ago.

As for cooling, the 40mm fan on the card does exceptionally well, it is extremely quiet even at load and temperatures max out at 65°c.
I am using the card in this small rig so it is actually very impressive. The F9 92mm fan from Arctic is actaully a bit louder at 1800rpm than the fan on the graphics card at 2000rpm.
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