Help - GTX 1070 FE Poor at Overclocking

[evo4ever86]

Hello all.

I haven't posted on ocuk in a few years as I had to come out of the hobby. But im back now with a new PC. Here are my specs:

Intel Core i7 6700K Skylake @ 4.70GHz
Gigabyte Z170X Gaming-5 (F5)
16GB Kingston Fury Black PC21300C16 2666MHz @ 3200MHz C17-19-19-40
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition
2x 250GB Samsung 850 EVO RAID0
NZXT Noctis 450
750W EVO PSU

Cost a lot i know but it runs like a cheetah with a rocket up its ass lol. Anyways to topic...

I'm using NVIDIA Inspector for OC'ing. I've got Power and Temp target on 112%, 92C, and Fan on 70%. Temperatures staying between 60c-70c on full load @ GPU 1668mhz, boost 1845mhz (GPU Boost reporting around 2GHz).

Anything over GPU +162mhz (1668mhz, boost 1845mhz) on base clock offset crashes on everything!! I've seen many people get this to 200mhz+ easily using the exact same card. Is there anything im doing wrong? is nvidia inspector no good? Please help and much appreciated!

Not overclocking gpu memory yet till I get the gpu core oc stable.

 

[varkanoid]

Try MSI Afterburner.
leave memory alone. put power limit to max.

Start at +100mhz run a test, up it to +150mhz run a test, up it to +175mhz run a test.

If it crashes whatever you are using back it off a bit up the voltage and try again.

Also note what are you using to test it with ? I've found often in the past Uniengine Heaven will run all day with an overclock but if I run 3DMark with the same overclock it errors.
Although I tend to use GPU-Z stress test as its quicker to test a good/bad OC than the others then once I am happy with it I run a few benchmarks.

 

[evo4ever86]

Try MSI Afterburner.
leave memory alone. put power limit to max.

Start at +100mhz run a test, up it to +150mhz run a test, up it to +175mhz run a test.

If it crashes whatever you are using back it off a bit up the voltage and try again.

Also note what are you using to test it with ? I've found often in the past Uniengine Heaven will run all day with an overclock but if I run 3DMark with the same overclock it errors.
Although I tend to use GPU-Z stress test as its quicker to test a good/bad OC than the others then once I am happy with it I run a few benchmarks.

You say up the voltage.. as in GPU voltage? what should I set it to? Whats the safest voltage range? or safest max? I use 3dmark firestrike, heaven, and general gaming (crysis3, alien isolation, dying light. currently playing them games) to stress test.

 

[varkanoid]

up the GPU voltage in MSI Afterburner. The max will still be safe only way you could damage it voltage wise would be with a custom setting in a custom BIOS. MSI wont let you set an unsafe voltage. When I mean up it then just by a little like +15mv

 

[8 Pack]

The Pascal gpu won't let u set a high voltage period.

It crashes the driver at anything over 1.25v no matter what bios and even with zombie VRM such as E power.

Start with +400 mems + 100 core slider maxed on Power limit and voltage.

 

[Rannoch]

The Pascal gpu won't let u set a high voltage period.

It crashes the driver at anything over 1.25v no matter what bios and even with zombie VRM such as E power.

Start with +400 mems + 100 core slider maxed on Power limit and voltage.

Thanks, that will help me also.