Basically, you fire up your computer and the GPU sits at 325Mhz Core. you fire up a game and it jumps up to 1045Mhz (if you use Skynets BIOS). As soon as you stop playing, it drops down to 325Mhz again.
If you run MSI AB and add +200Mhz to the core for instance, it will sit at 325Mhz on desktop/idle and as soon as you start gaming, it will jump up to 1245Mhz (if you use Skynets BIOS) and again, when you stop playing it drops down to 325Mhz. At what ever you set the speed at, it stays there and doesn't fluctuate. I notice in loading screens/menus, it drops off but that is the only time it does.
If you are not under water, just keep an eye on temps, as I believe it also stops the heat throttling but not 100% on that.
If you use Skynets BIOS, add 3 lines to MSI AB Beta 18 and you can have up to 1.3V as well (1.325V effective with Skynets BIOS).
pgi947 said:
No boost means your offset is added to the 3dbase and not to boost. So 1006mhz base at +200 gives ~1200mhz static clock regardless of temps. If it were boosting the clock speeds would be all over the shop.
Use kbe or similar for bios editing, has to be a kepler tool. Though the 700 series don't have as much support as the 600 series did, hence why skynets bioses are so popular. 600 series you could change power targets, voltages, statics and boost maximums etc...a lot of this is missing for 700 cards.