why do board partners never OC memory

[Td0g]

All the aftermarket cards (970, 980 etc) have big aftermarket OCs (i think the asus gold 980 is 1400+ on the boost out the box) but none of the cards including the gold, classy and hall of fame etc overclock memory (i think they do a 5mhz overclock to reach 7010 effective, but nothing major).
Why do they not overclock memory? is it because overclocking memory is pointless? or is there another reason?

 

[Ayahuasca]

Gains are minimal most of the time outside of benchmarks and potential stability issues.

I know on older cards we used to see memory overclocks though.

 

[Td0g]

Gains are minimal most of the time outside of benchmarks and potential stability issues.

I know on older cards we used to see memory overclocks though.

good to know. making me wonder whether to bother OCing my memory in afterburner, might just OC the clocks

 

[Aretak]

Asus put a relatively hefty overclock (at least by factory standards) on the memory for their 280X DirectCU II TOP (400MHz over reference) and it resulted in widespread reports of artifacting. Look through the reviews on any retailer and you'll find a bunch of people complaining about it artifacting out of the box. I had one myself that did it. Guess that's probably why it doesn't happen more often.

 

[Td0g]

Asus put a relatively hefty overclock (at least by factory standards) on the memory for their 280X DirectCU II TOP (400MHz over reference) and it resulted in widespread reports of artifacting. Look through the reviews on any retailer and you'll find a bunch of people complaining about it artifacting out of the box. I had one myself that did it. Guess that's probably why it doesn't happen more often.

interesting, i guess manufacturers must see it as a bit of risk, not worth the benefit of being able to say 400mhz mem oc on the box

 

[Verk]

I think the 290x Lightning comes with memory overclocked

 

[ShivP]

Too much effort for the performance benefit and the testing they'd have to do to ensure each card is stable

 

[8 Pack]

None of the above!!!!

NVIDIA dont allow it!! Green Light.

 

[humbug]

My Powercolor PCS+ R9 290 has a 100Mhz factory overclock on the Memory.

 

[Avenged7Fold]

Nvidia dont allow it and it seems AMD do but have not been without issue. A small minority(which was blown out of proportion) got black screens when the 290/x was released, imagine the blow back if they upped the clock further!

Having said that, my reference Sapphire 290x with elpida memory bought on release does 1625 nicely .

 

[humbug]

Nvidia dont allow it and it seems AMD do but have not been without issue. A small minority(which was blown out of proportion) got black screens when the 290/x was released, imagine the blow back if they upped the clock further!

Having said that, my reference Sapphire 290x with elpida memory bought on release does 1625 nicely .

About 70% of users with problems are Elpida.

Mine is Elpida and 1'st gen 290 bought 2 weeks after release, it never black screens upto 1450Mhz, more than that and it does, if i undervolt it too far it also blackscreens.

I think a lot of (but not all) problems are down to people messing about with the memory settings, the thing with these Hawaii GPU's is they don't crash when they are unstable, instead they blackscreen.