Run it at the settings in the Heaven thread so we've got something to compare it to 
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NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD
- Thread starter Ayahuasca
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Test your current card in the other slot?
Leave heaven looping for a while when you can or just play some games for a lengthy period. Certain games will work fine others will probably crash at those clocks. Diablo 3 seems to hate an overclock, can play for 2 hours and it will be fine, then go on the next day and get a driver reset within half an hour. Games like BF4, ARMA 3 and Planetside 2 don't crash at all.
To be honest Diablo 3 doesn't even need an overclock so I may just switch to stock clocks while playing that, could also be the fact of new drivers on a new card but I'd have to check if other people have had crashes on 9 series cards. Max bench stable and max game stable can sometimes be a fair distance apart.
To be honest Diablo 3 doesn't even need an overclock so I may just switch to stock clocks while playing that, could also be the fact of new drivers on a new card but I'd have to check if other people have had crashes on 9 series cards. Max bench stable and max game stable can sometimes be a fair distance apart.
The MSI is +87mv but it doesn't actually add that.
So you can hit 1580 then that's nothing to moan about if it's stable in gaming.
I think there's a few of us who want to push for more but even if we can't that's a lot of performance for the money, above a stock 980.
that's nothing to moan about if it's stable in gaming.I think there's a few of us who want to push for more but even if we can't that's a lot of performance for the money, above a stock 980.
The built in game scaler isn't as good as doing it through DSR. I've just tested DSR on my 1080p monitor on BF4 and it worked fine at 4k 144hz, albeit the performance took a massive hit, 2560x1440 with no AA at 144hz was good though and gave me a better image and more performance than 1080p with 4xAA
It's happening!
Awesome but will this allow us to flash custom bios?
yes but i bet it wont work once you get driver updates or Nvidia updates, i've got a better idea for you........ just buy another card next month
That's not how drivers updates work, once the BIOS is written to the card it either works or it doesn't. Which driver you use doesn't matter.
I'll add it now.
Sorted.
Don't know what's up there as +150 doesn't give me 1542mhz like they got.
That can't be right, you're not checking your actual boost clock, 225 will give you near 1600mhz boost.
Check the sensors tab in GPU-Z and set it to read you max core clock.
Try running a full screen game and checking, it should be way higher than that if the boost on first page is 1470, the actual boost is usually around 80-100mhz more.
Check GPU-Z sensor tab and see what that says.
This was while a full bench of Valley was happening.
I think it's because your voltage isn't maxed to +87. If you do that it will boost higher.
nvidia inspector
What is it you're wanting to do?
What is it you're wanting to do?
That's an awesome card you've got there Scramz, over 14k graphics score on 3dmark is an amazing score for the so called mid range card 
You can tell from your graph though in GPU-Z that the card is throttling quite badly at that clock, 1630 was the max but it seems it was running lower than that for most of the run. Thing is it looks like custom bios won't be possible at the moment :/
You can tell from your graph though in GPU-Z that the card is throttling quite badly at that clock, 1630 was the max but it seems it was running lower than that for most of the run. Thing is it looks like custom bios won't be possible at the moment :/
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There's no way your PSU is holding you back unless it's faulty. Even overclocked one of the reviews showed under 400w system load I think it was. To get rid of tearing completely you need to use sync, so vsync or gsync. One has its drawbacks the other is expensive.