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.
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NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD
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I think it's because your voltage isn't maxed to +87. If you do that it will boost higher.
This was while a full bench of Valley was happening.
wow look at your fan speed, no wonder your GPU core clock is so high, my fan is on zero !!!!!
if i want to OC higher i'll deffo need the fan speed and power limit increased, my mem clock is 1866MHz
your card must be pretty noisy at 70%
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I have two of them and I can't get the temps above low 40's no matter what I do, I have overclocked them but I haven't touched the fan curves, though I did change the TIM when fitting the water blocks that may have helped
I been having issues with AB aswell,after being open for a while,it causes my clocks to not downclock in idle/desktop state.Keeps the Core clock at base speed and mem at max,closing AB makes no difference,card is just stuck sucking 23%ish TDP with high clocks.Only way to fix it and let the card properly idle again is a restart.
Switched over to Precision,having no problems so far.Hopefully wehatever causes this will be fixed in the next AB update.Its a far better piece of software compared to Precision imo
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Guys the boost clock shown in GPUz isn't the correct one as the card can boost HIGHER when in game or benching.
Use MSI afterburner and the on screen display to show actual boost clock
Use MSI afterburner and the on screen display to show actual boost clock
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Any reason why 970 is constantly running 11523core and not down-clocking?
I would say that this operating temperature is OK.
If you look in Precision X then the target temp is 79deg and power 100%. I interpret this as the card will boost until this limit is reached.
You have to help it by providing enough cooling which is GPU fan speed and case cooling. Too much fan speed and it will be too loud but too little and the card will throttle - you will see the boost clocks fall back greatly at the 79 temp.
So you can set the fan curve to be quiet at idle but high enough at mid 70s to stop throttling. If you can't get the cooling you need at acceptable fan noise - esp in a small case then its time to be pragmatic - first don't over clock then think about dropping the temp target towards 70 and/or the power target towards 85%
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Something on your pc is triggering the low power 3d clocks, check your background processes.
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It's Google Chrome by the look of it
Yep it's deffo Chrome..
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Still waiting for the 970s with the 980 cooler. There's talk of them on the EVGA forum too.
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Is there any applications for Nvidia cards that allow you to customise settings? Kind of like a Radeon Pro but for Nvidia?
nvidia inspector
What is it you're wanting to do?
What is it you're wanting to do?
Still waiting for mine to turn up, however the tubing I've received is naff (from a competitor, not overclockers) so I'll be running air bench style while I sort that out 
however digging around in all my pc bits I found my old 470 which I thought I'd sold... Any opinions on running it as a physx card with the 970 SLi? Or even consider my 770 as a dedicated physx? I'm rethinking my loop since I need to get new tubing anyway, so I can order the necessary fittings etc at the same time if I do run it.
Even as a physx card I'd run on water for noise, plus, more tubes.
however digging around in all my pc bits I found my old 470 which I thought I'd sold... Any opinions on running it as a physx card with the 970 SLi? Or even consider my 770 as a dedicated physx? I'm rethinking my loop since I need to get new tubing anyway, so I can order the necessary fittings etc at the same time if I do run it. Even as a physx card I'd run on water for noise, plus, more tubes.
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Personally i wouldnt bother with the 470 for physx. Quite power hungry cards and youd be adding a lot more heat into your loop.
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+1 not worth it.
Running a decent card plus a dated card for PhysX is actually worse for performance than just running it off the main card. The least you would want for a PhysX card with a GTX970 is a GTX750 (I know it's not quite as powerful as a 470 but it does better for PhysX due to being newer).