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Yeah getting this card under water is key... getting temps to stay under 50c and you are golden it seems. I hit 2101 on air but it throttles back immediately when the temp goes over 50c. That said I am able to keep above 2ghz while playing TW3 @ 4k now for the most part on air which is great I think.
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im able to keep it over 2000mhz in the witcher 3 too. I have it set to +200 core and +550 memory, and no extra voltage, and 65% fan. Runs error free, and never goes over 74c. bounces from 2025-2088. If i up the core to 210, it runs great, but every once in a while i will see a green artifact, usually during cut scenes. its weird, it seems like adding voltage actually hurts my overclock. I have been able to run benchmarks at +250 core, but its no where near stable in games, usually if i play farcry or something, it will just stop the game, like a screenshot, and I have to alt tab and logout, and log back in .

just out of curiosity, does EVGA use a thermal compound on these similar to artic silver, would it make any sense to apply artic silver, over the compound that came on the card?

also what is an EVGA CLC cooler?
 
Xenozx said:
just out of curiosity, does EVGA use a thermal compound on these similar to artic silver, would it make any sense to apply artic silver, over the compound that came on the card?

also what is an EVGA CLC cooler?
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Closed loop cooler, an all in one water cooler :)

I use Gelid Extreme for thermal paste on all GPUs and CPUs, usually lowers temps by 2-10C.
 
revenant said:
Yeah getting this card under water is key... getting temps to stay under 50c and you are golden it seems.
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Under water most people hit ~2050, and can reach 2100 if they hit the silicon lottery. But that's the exact same result as any 1080, including the reference card. Extreme cooling will get you higher, like with Kingpin and such, but water seems to offer zero benefit to clocks.

Hardwarecanucks is hinting the EVGA Classified may hit 2200, so that would be the first real cherry-picked GPU we've seen so far. Still unconfirmed.
 
yeah looks like at 2100 or so the voltage is at 1.35 and that looks to be the max for finfet GPU's.
 
razor1 said:
yeah looks like at 2100 or so the voltage is at 1.35 and that looks to be the max for finfet GPU's.
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Pascal supposedly has a 1.25v hard limit, where is the 1.35v coming from? Do you mean 1.035v? If so, mine was hitting 1.07v for short periods before falling back to 1.062v. :)
 
schizo said:
Under water most people hit ~2050, and can reach 2100 if they hit the silicon lottery. But that's the exact same result as any 1080, including the reference card. Extreme cooling will get you higher, like with Kingpin and such, but water seems to offer zero benefit to clocks.

Hardwarecanucks is hinting the EVGA Classified may hit 2200, so that would be the first real cherry-picked GPU we've seen so far. Still unconfirmed.
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Water should have the benefit ok not getting a higher clock speed, but keeping it so long as power limit is not being reached, which hopefully BIOS flashing will be available soon to get rid of that pesky shit :)
 
jedimasterben said:
Water should have the benefit ok not getting a higher clock speed, but keeping it so long as power limit is not being reached, which hopefully BIOS flashing will be available soon to get rid of that pesky shit :)
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Nope, GP104 runs pretty cool. My EVGA SC never gets over 70C at full load and 2050Mhz, and the fan is very quiet.

Water would keep the temps much lower, but it wouldn't be noticeably quieter, and it wouldn't get you higher clocks.
 
schizo said:
Under water most people hit ~2050, and can reach 2100 if they hit the silicon lottery. But that's the exact same result as any 1080, including the reference card. Extreme cooling will get you higher, like with Kingpin and such, but water seems to offer zero benefit to clocks.

Hardwarecanucks is hinting the EVGA Classified may hit 2200, so that would be the first real cherry-picked GPU we've seen so far. Still unconfirmed.
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Seems like from what I have read there's almost no throttling back if you can keep the card under 50c. Then you can explore the full potential of your card, but it's an investment that might not pay off that much if you hit a wall at like 2150.. which is likely where the FE cards will max out at. Again yeah it depends on the chip but seems like the FE's have potential for 2150ish.

I guess I should have worded things more like, to avoid throttling and get the full potential these Pascals keeping the temps under 50c seems to be the way to do it.

jedimasterben said:
Pascal supposedly has a 1.25v hard limit, where is the 1.35v coming from? Do you mean 1.035v? If so, mine was hitting 1.07v for short periods before falling back to 1.062v. :)
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yeah - the FE's are going to max out at 1.08v - I think that's all they are safely capable of with a 5+1 vrm power system. If you google "gtx 1080 voltage" there are some long reddit threads about the 1.25v thing... Looks like only bios modded Asus Strix cards have come near that so far.. but they didn't gain much from that. Sigh.. I will probably just leave my air cooler on and enjoy the 2ghz speeds. :)
 
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schizo said:
Nope, GP104 runs pretty cool. My EVGA SC never gets over 70C at full load and 2050Mhz, and the fan is very quiet.

Water would keep the temps much lower, but it wouldn't be noticeably quieter, and it wouldn't get you higher clocks.
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Ok, well what clock speed is it reaching before it hits 50C? It falls several boost bins between 50 and 70 due to thermal throttling.
 
^^ my point exactly. Pushing 4k res yeah for like 30 seconds I have 2101 then as soon as I hit 50c down to 2088, 2063 then 2050, then 2024 and 2012 and so on as the temp hits 60c and beyond. That said these do seem to run pretty cool in general. Last night was a "normal" summer night and it was about 21c in my room and was averaging around 65c to 67c load.. I was seeing clocks between 2050 to 2000 with those temps.
 
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Those numbers sound about right, for a good card.

I've only seen one or two reports of people hitting even sustained 2150Mhz. Everybody, everybody, seems to hit from 2050-2100Mhz. Better cooling doesn't help, except extreme (LN2) cooling of course.
 
OK i got some questions. So when i pull my card up in GPU-z it shows the following

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the boost clock there, is not the boost clock i see in games. I actually see like 2101,2088, 2063, 2044, or 2025. it usually stays over 2000 at all times. why is this? I have seen other screenshots where the GPU-Z boost clock is higher, but the in game is lower than mine, why is this?
 
Xenozx said:
OK i got some questions. So when i pull my card up in GPU-z it shows the following

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the boost clock there, is not the boost clock i see in games. I actually see like 2101,2088, 2063, 2044, or 2025. it usually stays over 2000 at all times. why is this? I have seen other screenshots where the GPU-Z boost clock is higher, but the in game is lower than mine, why is this?
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That is how boost works. Your card is limited by the amount of power it pulls and the temperature of the core.
 
Asus Strix 1080 OC ,
Voltage : Default
Power: 120%
Core: +78, Anything Over seem to crashed
Core Clock: Max out at 2136 Stable
Memory clock: +500 ( I can go as high as + 550 but crashes randomly )
Temp: idle at 33C, Load : 62C with Default Fan Curve ( and Quiet as hell)

Firestrike Graphic Score I got a 25138, I might able to push more if i upper the voltage limit, but I don't want try that.
 
Yeah, I think I got lucky with a good one, and the temp too wasn't like how other said
 
I just got my MSI Armor OC 1080 and was able to push it to around 2100 core (+150 vcore) and 5.4GHz memory (+400) for now with no immediate crashing or artifacting with Unigine Heaven. It seems to crash around +175 vcore, but I haven't really messed with the voltage or power limits too much since I got my card. Voltage remains stock at 1.035V. I am hoping that means it is a good overclocker.
 
Got my g1 gaming to 120+ on the GPU & 500+ on the memory.

Actual boost during heavy gaming fluctuates between 2076Mhz, & 2150Mhz which is not too bad, but to be frank I was expecting a little more from this card..
 
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pencea said:
Got my one to 120+ on the GPU & 500+ on the memory.

Actual boost during heavy gaming fluctuates between 2076Mhz, & 2150Mhz which is not too bad, but to be frank I was expecting a little more from this card..
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What model? The silicon lottery doesn't always play in our favor :(
 
Founders Edition with an aggressive fan profile clocked at 2101 MHz max with it usually sitting around 2083 MHz. For some reason though it's very unstable if I try to OC the memory, but considering how fast the vram is already and how OC really wouldn't show a great deal of improvement anyways it's not too big of a deal.
 
pencea said:
Got my g1 gaming to 120+ on the GPU & 500+ on the memory.

Actual boost during heavy gaming fluctuates between 2076Mhz, & 2150Mhz which is not too bad, but to be frank I was expecting a little more from this card..
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2150 is really good on air. The more you can cool the card the less it will throttle. I think you got a good one actually.
 
This is embarrassing but I really can't figure out how to get a decent overclock with these cards. I've downloaded three different utilities for my ROG-Strix. The Asus utility is just a disaster, doesn't even save settings correctly. EVGA would probably be decent but the fan control curves won't do anything to the fan on my card.

I've settled on MSI Afterburner which seems to be the best of the bunch but I'm having the following issues:

1. I don't see any way to priorities power or temp targets. I can link them or unlink them, but with my titans (before I bios flashed them) there was an arrow you could point up or down to set the priority. I just don't see that anywhere in Afterburner (or on the others).

2. The core voltage being changed to a % is confusing to me. Even more confusing because all of the overclocking articles show voltage adjustments as points on a curve. Are you supposed to set a % on the sliders and set up the points on the voltage curve, or are they mutually exclusive?

3. Should "force constant voltage" in properties be set on or off? I really don't understand the best way to do voltage on these cards between that setting, the core voltage slider, and all of the articles about curves.
 
Ok, so I flashed the Asus Strix OC BIOS onto my Asus FE. Zero throttling for any reason, the card has no power or temperature limit, the sliders are totally greyed out. I'm not really able to use it, though, as it keeps pushing voltage up above 1.1v and it is causing the card to artifact and crash. If the voltage stays below 1.08ish it doesn't artifact and I can get higher clocks than I could before, but this BIOS keeps raising the voltage over time.
 
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Ok, so I flashed the Asus Strix OC BIOS onto my Asus FE. Zero throttling for any reason, the card has no power or temperature limit, the sliders are totally greyed out. I'm not really able to use it, though, as it keeps pushing voltage up above 1.1v and it is causing the card to artifact and crash. If the voltage stays below 1.08ish it doesn't artifact and I can get higher clocks than I could before, but this BIOS keeps raising the voltage over time.
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Did you flash it back or figure out a way around the gradual voltage increase?
 
pencea said:
Got my g1 gaming to 120+ on the GPU & 500+ on the memory.

Actual boost during heavy gaming fluctuates between 2076Mhz, & 2150Mhz which is not too bad, but to be frank I was expecting a little more from this card..
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Not sure why you were expecting better and that makes me think you have not even been looking at reviews. 2150 is very high and I doubt you get that for more than a few seconds in anything that actually pushes the gpu hard. Even 2076 would likely not be maintained in every case. A lot of these numbers some of you are claiming are probably not happening in sustained uncapped gaming on max settings. By that I mean playing demanding games at 4k or 1440 144hz with no vsync or framerate cap. Even some of the Firestrike graphics scores I am seeing proves most of you are not even maintaining much over 2000 mhz as your graphics scores are little to no better than mine at 2000 mhz and memory at just 10500. I remember the same silliness when the 980 ti came out as way too many people were claiming well over 1500mhz stable with no modding.
 
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revenant said:
Did you flash it back or figure out a way around the gradual voltage increase?
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Had to flash back to stock for now. The voltage/frequency curve with boost 3.0 is done backwards, so there is no way to limit voltage, only clock speed, which is stupid.
 
GTA5 stable enough

GPU 224 (2100)
MEM 545 (5544)

4K res, All setting maxed except for MSAAx4 and reflection MSAAx4

Granted my FPS is about 25-45 wich isnt terrible, its fairly smooth.

The clock has not throttled below 2050

No artifacts, screen-tearing maybe once every few minutes.
 
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Not sure why you were expecting better and that makes me think you have not even been looking at reviews. 2150 is very high and I doubt you get that for more than a few seconds in anything that actually pushes the gpu hard. Even 2076 would likely not be maintained in every case. A lot of these numbers some of you are claiming are probably not happening in sustained uncapped gaming on max settings. By that I mean playing demanding games at 4k or 1440 144hz with no vsync or framerate cap. Even some of the Firestrike graphics scores I am seeing proves most of you are not even maintaining much over 2000 mhz as your graphics scores are little to no better than mine at 2000 mhz and memory at just 10500. I remember the same silliness when the 980 ti came out as way too many people were claiming well over 1500mhz stable with no modding.
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I did read all the reviews. Even if there is a limitation there's nothing wrong to dream a little more especially when it comes to the silicon lottery game. ;)

I run demanding titles such as The Witcher 3, Crysis 3, Star Citizen, Black Desert Online, Rise of The Tomb Raider, Assassins Creed Unity...etc Even less demanding games such as Battlefront, I set the scaling resolution to 200% for maximum stressing.

These are long strenuous hours of sessions, uncapped, vsync disabled at maximum settings with a 144Hz monitor.

I monitor my stats using Rivatuner on every single one of these titles, and those are the average speeds I've been getting in most cases.
 
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ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 STRIX-GTX1080-8G-GAMING 8GB
+205 Core Clock -> 2075 Mhz Max GPU Core Clock
+480 Mem Clock -> 1377 Mhz Max Mem Clock
 
I get 24203 graphics score with lower gpu core clock and lower memory speed. That backs up what I said earlier about most of you are not maintaining the clocks you think you are.
 
misterbobby said:
I get 24203 graphics score with lower gpu core clock and lower memory speed. That backs up what I said earlier about most of you are not maintaining the clocks you think you are.
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I also noticed something else, sometimes pushing you memory higher lowers your 3DMark score. My score at +495 is higher than at +550.
 
badb0y said:
I also noticed something else, sometimes pushing you memory higher lowers your 3DMark score. My score at +495 is higher than at +550.
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That's the ECC kicking in on the memory. You should leave the clocks below 500 sounds like.
 
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