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is it worth installing msi afterburner for this graphics card ? or should i just keep standard ?
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Nvidia 1070 founders edition
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To be honest boost 3.0 on FE cards push's the clocks as high as or as close as they would go without increasing the fan profile as thermals are the limit. So if you want to eek out more performance, upping the fan on FE and in turn noise would be the way to improve performance. With that said, memory can usually be overclocked a 800 MHz -1000 MHz or so usually without needing to change other settings.
You can overclock them for more performance but as Radox said Pascal cards run at near maximum clocks out of the box, you could get another 100 to 150Mhz out the core, seems like a lot but its actually about 5 to 7% and for that you get more heat, which in the blower type cooler that is the FE would probably equal more noise.
My old card was a 1070 founders ed, to be honest, it overclocked really well. If I recall, out of the box clocks boosted up to around 1887mhz, after OC I was getting 2049mhz, not a massive jump but certainly noticeable.
Just up the power limit and voltage sliders to the max in afterburner and overclock as far as you can push it. I had a limit of 60% max fan speed and 70 degrees as my cut off point before I would oc no further (founders ed is loud at much over 60% speed and I just wasn't comfortable going 70 degrees +).
Just up the power limit and voltage sliders to the max in afterburner and overclock as far as you can push it. I had a limit of 60% max fan speed and 70 degrees as my cut off point before I would oc no further (founders ed is loud at much over 60% speed and I just wasn't comfortable going 70 degrees +).