I have a Windforce 780ti oc that I suspect is unstable.
It has a stock boost speed of 1020Mhz but shot right past that to 1150Mhz at 1.2V (the boost speed of the Ghz edition coincidentally) straight out of the box, I tried pushing a little further but it wouldn't hold it for more than a few minutes, not even a little more on the memory, so I left it as it was and was mostly happy.
But today there was a crash while playing AC4 (while taking three frigates at once like a boss) with a freeze, then a black screen and corrupted audio.
So I have a few questions;
Is having such a high out-of-the-box speed normal for Kepler cards? my understanding of turbo boost 2.0 is that it will boost up to a temperature or power limit (power in my case), if so why do manufacturers bother quoting stock and boost speeds if the speed is dynamic?
How do nvidia validate their bins? how do they know a certain speed and voltage is going to be stable?
Could this be power delivery thing? I have heard that reference cards can overheat their vregs and I think gigabyte use a semi-reference design.
Or have I accidentally been sent a Ghz edition with a faulty backplate, i.e. non existent.
It has a stock boost speed of 1020Mhz but shot right past that to 1150Mhz at 1.2V (the boost speed of the Ghz edition coincidentally) straight out of the box, I tried pushing a little further but it wouldn't hold it for more than a few minutes, not even a little more on the memory, so I left it as it was and was mostly happy.
But today there was a crash while playing AC4 (while taking three frigates at once like a boss) with a freeze, then a black screen and corrupted audio.
So I have a few questions;
Is having such a high out-of-the-box speed normal for Kepler cards? my understanding of turbo boost 2.0 is that it will boost up to a temperature or power limit (power in my case), if so why do manufacturers bother quoting stock and boost speeds if the speed is dynamic?
How do nvidia validate their bins? how do they know a certain speed and voltage is going to be stable?
Could this be power delivery thing? I have heard that reference cards can overheat their vregs and I think gigabyte use a semi-reference design.
Or have I accidentally been sent a Ghz edition with a faulty backplate, i.e. non existent.