Worth overclocking a SuperClocked card ?

[thedoc46]

Running with an EVGA GTX980 Superclocked ACX2.0 GPU running gsync.

On an Acer XB270HU 144hz gsync monitor.

Really 95% of what i have plays perfect. Occasionally there's a title where i have to knock down the msaa to get it a little smoother, but for 95% of what i play it all runs at 144fps at 144hz and its as silky smooth as you could ever get !

Anyway my question is it is possible to overclock an already 'superclocked' by the manufacturer graphics card ?

Or just not worth it. Considering i'm 95% perfectly smooth with all my titles.

 

[seanyc5]

Yeah course you can, my 980ti overclocks to 1480mhz without touching voltage. Thats up about 200mhz from MSI overclock. Resulting in about a 5-10fps boost (going by games that have built in benchmark). No reason not to do it.

Set your power limit 109% in Afterburner (assuming its the same) and start with 50mhz on the core and slowy increase!

* If you say your smooth 95% of the time, getting a few more fps may make it smooth 99.9% of the time? Worth a shot!

 

[Klunt Bumskrint]

Always OC!!

 

[bigmac121]

Running with an EVGA GTX980 Superclocked ACX2.0 GPU running gsync.

On an Acer XB270HU 144hz gsync monitor.

Really 95% of what i have plays perfect. Occasionally there's a title where i have to knock down the msaa to get it a little smoother, but for 95% of what i play it all runs at 144fps at 144hz and its as silky smooth as you could ever get !

Anyway my question is it is possible to overclock an already 'superclocked' by the manufacturer graphics card ?

Or just not worth it. Considering i'm 95% perfectly smooth with all my titles.

I got 1500+ on both my cards

 

[thedoc46]

Always OC!!

My attitude has always been if its playing everything at max, at 144fps 144hz with gsync to sort out any stutter then why bother with OC'ing... and risk problems down the road.

Plus i live in a hot climate so extra heat down under my desk is something i'm keen to avoid.

 

[sneakysnail]

My attitude has always been if its playing everything at max, at 144fps 144hz with gsync to sort out any stutter then why bother with OC'ing... and risk problems down the road.

Plus i live in a hot climate so extra heat down under my desk is something i'm keen to avoid.

my view as well. no point pushing your hardware if you don't need to.

 

[8 Pack]

Yes always worth free performance.

 

[setter]

Stock speed is blasphemous round here.

 

[bemaniac]

all cards would do +150mhz I would think on both core and mem.

 

[MooMoo444]

The vendors have to cover their backsides when it comes to the overclocked cards, so they are pretty conservative when it comes to the frequencies. You can almost always get more juice from them, however there will be one card in 1000 that just wont accept any more.

 

[EVGAdominik]

When you go for some overclocking I would suggest to setup a custom fan profile. Out of the box the fan profile is semi passive means the fans will only spin when the card hit 60 degree. If you overclock the temps within the GPU can raise pretty quickly and also the find take up heat pretty quickly which then needs to get cooled again when the fan kicks in. When you run a active fan profile the GPU itself aswell as the componentns in the cooler do constantly get cooled and the whole card will not heat up that much. With the Temp target you can also limit this, by default it is at 80 degree, when you do not touch this the card will stop clocking when it is getting close to that temps and downclocks itself till it can hit the target so it makes sure the card do not get too hot but if you had been fine with the semi passive profile so far there should not be any issues when you run a active fan profile during overclocking. The thermal paste on the card is a good industry standard but the third party market offers some even better ones. We do allow to change the TIM without warranty issues so if you want to you can also change this to high quality one, this will also bring down temps a bit more. In the EVGA Precision Tool you can also review the vitals of the card. Before you do some overclocking I would suggest to review this with your games and see what is exactly bottlenecking. If the RAM is the bottleneck a GPU overclock will not bring much more performance and you can try to overclock the RAM and the oppsoit of course..