NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

[Shampoo]

Strange thing. Even though boost is reported as 1428, after running some games and checking GPU-Z which was running, it reported a boost of 1508 on the actual sensor data?

Normal?

 

[mikeo]

i dont think i have ever seen my card reach the power limit of 110% most ive noticed is 106%. so if i unlocked the voltage would that mean i can overclock further without driver crashes? my best OC is less than +80 on the core. this never changed when i changed the stock cooler for a prolimatech mk26. cooler temps but my OC was not getting better.

i am just waiting on my gpu block to be repaired then i will be going underwater.

It might help you get a higher boost. Or you might just be one of the unlucky ones and got a card that won't OC very well (silicon lottery and all that!). Plus the boost a card will reach obviously depends on what you are running.

 

[mikeo]

Strange thing. Even though boost is reported as 1428, after running some games and checking GPU-Z which was running, it reported a boost of 1508 on the actual sensor data?

Normal?

Very much depends on what you are running to check your boost in the first place. If using one of the many stress testing utilities, then these push a card much harder than most games ever will. So the boost won't look as good (ie. Be as high) as say running a game (obviously not always the case). As always, pretty much luck of the draw as to how well any card will perform. The card manufacturers obviously only guarantee the speeds that they certify for their card/s. Anything else is just a bonus.

 

[John7up]

I don't think the Valley frequency is real. I'd rather do other game or benchmnark and check max frequency in gpu-z.

 

[jbh110tdi]

I don't think the Valley frequency is real. I'd rather do other game or benchmnark and check max frequency in gpu-z.

I normally have MSI afterburner running with the overlay to tell me my frequency and yes.. valley is normally well out.