NVIDIA Rolls Out Holiday Gift for Pascal Cards Owners – OC Scanner Now Available in MSI Afterburner

[LoadsaMoney]

The latest beta release of MSI Afterburner delivered an unexpected Christmas gift for owners of NVIDIA Pascal GPUs. The company finally made good on its promise and rolled out a new version of the OC Scanner API with support for the previous generation of graphics cards (it was previously only available on RTX cards). This means you’ll now be able to let the software automatically find an overclocking sweet spot for your specific graphics card, which is particularly useful if you’re not very familiar with overclocking to begin with and want to get a performance boost while remaining on the safe side.

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-rolls-out-oc-scanner-gtx-cards/

 

[Finners]

Currently scanning on my Titan X Pascal now. I'm not expecting miracles as I normally run at 1950mhz @ 0.925v as it's the best blend of performance/temps without hitting power limit.

The guide on MSI says to slide everything to the max and then scan so can imagine getting results back that will often hit the power limit on my card but I'll wait and see.

 

[Scania]

I’ll try this tonight with my Zotac 1080ti Amp Extreme, it should be ideal for Overclocking given it’s monster cooler and the fact the fans rarely spool up, never tried previously as I haven’t felt the need, even running @4k

I’ll report back later once I’ve blown it up!

 

[LoadsaMoney]

I’ll report back later once I’ve blown it up!

 

[willhub]

Nice one I'll try this one my GTX1070 laptop

 

[MrMarvelous]

Got a 1080, will this work on that?

 

[Kelt]

Got a 1080, will this work on that?

Yep.

 

[humbug]

Uh...... Looking.

 

[Nugsy88]

I might be doing something wrong, slid everything to the max and let it scan.

18:45:10 Connected to MSI Afterburner control interface v2.3
18:45:13 GPU1 : VEN_10DE&DEV_1B80&SUBSYS_1B8010DE&REV_A1&BUS_8&DEV_0&FN_0
18:45:13 Memory clock +500MHz
18:45:13 Overvoltage 0 %
18:45:13 Power limit 120%
18:45:13 Thermal limit 83 °C
18:45:13 Fan speed 1 Auto
18:45:13 Start scanning, please wait a few minutes
18:45:15 Scanning point 1 of 4
18:45:58 Scanning point 2 of 4
18:46:41 Scanning point 3 of 4
18:47:14 Scanning point 4 of 4
18:47:29 Scan succeeded, average overclock is 0MHz
18:47:29 Dominant limiters
18:47:29 No load
18:47:29 Overclocked curve exported to MSI Afterburner

I already had 50/500 OC on the card. Was trying to see the difference but keeps coming back with 0MHz

 

[Alexrose1uk]

Nice will give this a try later and see if it finds an improved #'sweet spot'!

 

[Finners]

I might be doing something wrong, slid everything to the max and let it scan.

18:45:10 Connected to MSI Afterburner control interface v2.3
18:45:13 GPU1 : VEN_10DE&DEV_1B80&SUBSYS_1B8010DE&REV_A1&BUS_8&DEV_0&FN_0
18:45:13 Memory clock +500MHz
18:45:13 Overvoltage 0 %
18:45:13 Power limit 120%
18:45:13 Thermal limit 83 °C
18:45:13 Fan speed 1 Auto
18:45:13 Start scanning, please wait a few minutes
18:45:15 Scanning point 1 of 4
18:45:58 Scanning point 2 of 4
18:46:41 Scanning point 3 of 4
18:47:14 Scanning point 4 of 4
18:47:29 Scan succeeded, average overclock is 0MHz
18:47:29 Dominant limiters
18:47:29 No load
18:47:29 Overclocked curve exported to MSI Afterburner

I already had 50/500 OC on the card. Was trying to see the difference but keeps coming back with 0MHz

I would remove your OC before starting. Its the whole point of the scanner to find the OC for you. The guide I read also said that voltage control and voltage monitoring needed to be ticked in settings.

Also what card is this on?

 

[Alexrose1uk]

Yeah just found this quick tutorial, seems fairly straight forward.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmxg2XIjD-4

 

[Nugsy88]

Tried it again and it worked with setting card to default, did not OC memory just core and managed an average of 33Mhz when I can do 50Mhz core and 500 on memory so don't know what to think of it, I suppose if you don't usually OC then it's decent.

 

[JediFragger]

Yeah I didn't think much of this when tried it with 2080Ti, manual tweaking got me more.

 

[Alexrose1uk]

Even if it doesnt get you as high, its a nice 'baseline' to go for then tweak yourself further

 

[Rroff]

Tried it again and it worked with setting card to default, did not OC memory just core and managed an average of 33Mhz when I can do 50Mhz core and 500 on memory so don't know what to think of it, I suppose if you don't usually OC then it's decent.

There might be small levels of instability at +50MHz that don't currently affect anything you do play but technically the card might not be fully stable at +50MHz. Also bare in mind that on nVidia GPUs the speeds work in bins usually somewhere around 8MHz steps so you might actually be running the same clockspeed with setting +33MHz and +50MHz as the +50MHz might not be enough to get you to the next speed bin (check what it is actually running under load in GPU-z or an ingame overlay).

EDIT: Pascal operates 12MHz boost bins.

 

[Shashman]

Well for someone who's never even attempted GPU (or CPU, for that matter!) overclocking, this is most handy!

 

[Nugsy88]

Didn't realise any of that rroff so thanks! It runs at 2050Mhz under load. It's a palit super jetstream 1080.

 

[Rroff]

Didn't realise any of that rroff so thanks! It runs at 2050Mhz under load. It's a palit super jetstream 1080.

Probably about as far as you are going to get it anyhow unless the card has some BIOS tweaks - most Pascal cores drop to 20xxMHz dynamically due to powerlimit at some point during gaming even if you get them boosting further short of hardware mods and/or modified vBIOS.

 

[Sin_Chase]

For an automatic tool it probably finds a sweet spot then knocks down a little. You wouldn't want automatic overclocking settling on something that's unstable.

Would be curious to see what it is picks compared to the manual clocks though!