Inno3d geforce gtx 970 ichill herculez x4 air boss ultra. Yea, im aware of the the memory split configuration issue, and at least in my case i dont think its as big an issue as its made out to be. Now that i have owned my msi gtx 970 gaming 4g for over a month, i am thinking of overclocking it. In addition to a long history of stable releases, afterburner is simple to use and provides. Gtx 970 overclock question pcmaclinux society gamespot. Its been a crazy two weeks, but i finally finished editing the overclocking video for the gigabyte gtx 970 g1. Big performance in this card, people 3dmark time spy shows a strikingly similar result with the 1080 ti gaming x scoring 8,766, beating the fe. Led sync that syncs with other evga rgb components. Nvidias reference gtx 970 is specd at 1,050mhz core and 7,000mhz memory. It provides detailed overview of your hardware and comes with some additional features like customizing fan profiles, benchmarking and video recording. Now that we have a understanding of what these pascal cards are doing, the overclocking can begin.
Msi gaming graphics cards give you more performance out of the box. Msi afterburners built in monitor is enough for gpu o. My card model is gvn970ixoc4gd gigabyte gtx 970 mini oc. Ill have to run gta 5 and see what the temperatures are like. Since this forum seems dedicated to afterburner hopefully my luck will be a bit better. Test in demanding games after youve finished and dial back if you encounter any problems. Msi afterburner is a handy overclocking utility for msi graphics cards. I mentioned in my look at asus strix the other day that ultimately, i think the gtx 970 impresses me more than the gtx 980 at least from a bangforthebuck perspective, and as it happens, that carried straight on through to overclocking. Gigabyte also comes with aorus graphics engine software for its highend aorus graphics cards. I can tell you from my experience evga gtx 970, sc, acx2. Features include triple over voltage, benchmark, overclocking, monitor.
And while im very satisfied with the performance and temps while under heave load, and gaming. The overclocking gtx 970 msi gaming 4g through software msi afterburner overclocking made through msi graphics program monitoring additional software, special attention is required for the. Overclocking the gtx 970 is about as simple as it gets. Msi gtx 970 gaming 4g versus msi gtx 970 gaming 4g le. Gtx 970 mini undervolting fixed black screen and allowed to overclock, but why. Always wanted to get more performance out of your graphics card, but dont know how overclocking works or simply dont want to risk it. The gm204200 chip is smacked onto a custom pcb surrounded with military class.
Zotac has its own firestorm application, but evgas precision and msi afterburner all work as well, with no difference in. Ubertakten mit dem msi afterburner msi gtx 970 deutsch. Msi afterburner seems to be recommended for ocing these cards. Browse categories, post your questions, or just chat with other members. I do know that i will have to increase the power limit. Im using msi afterburner, have a gtx 970 a normal one from nvidia, no third party, cpu is a10 6800k, 750w psu, 16gb ddr3, and a. With the second step, you move the slider for the gpu core from its original stock. What are the safe limits to overclock gtx970m in afterburner. Best settings for your particular card depend on your particular card. However, you do not need an msi card for all the features to work, unlike evga xoc software, which locks part of it off to evga owners only. Theyre listed under beta drivers, but were just released by nvidia a few days ago. Rgb led control supporting graphics cards andor nvlink bridge. In this case were overclocking an msi twin frozr gtx 970, so were using msi afterburner.
After several hours of researching, i ended up overclock mine like this. Fiddling with the memory clock can be perilous, but if you have a dual bi. Full support for geforce rtx graphics cards and geforce gtx 10series. Go to settings and allow you to unlock voltage control and monitoring. Msi afterburner is the worlds most recognized and widely used graphics card overclocking utility. You need to do some web searches to get a shortcut to a stable overclock. So imo i would very much try and stick with stock voltage, the msi 970 are pushing out a lot of voltage stock, even though gpuz says, for example on mine 1. Looking for an overclocking guide for msi gaming gtx 970.
Gtx 970 overclocking you are obviously advised to use msis afterburner, but they all work. How do i overclock a galax gtx 970 exoc using msi afterburner and what applications do i need to overclock it. New oc scanner for finding the best stable overclock. The new oc scanner feature in msi afterburner will do the overclocking for you at the click of a button. Only by trying and stress testing will you find the limits of your card.
Main features include gpushadermemory clock adjustment, advanced fan speed and gpu voltage control. It provides detailed overview of your hardware and comes with. I gave up on the asus overclocking program as it kept crashing so im using msi afterburner. Gpu clocks are handled by the autonomous gpu boost feature in nvidia.
It provides frame monitoring for benchmarking and an. Although i have never overclocked a gpu, so i am unsure of what to look out for. Boost performance and monitor critical info in realtime. When i bought it like 2 years ago, i didnt like how much noise its generated under load, so i switched. I have the same card msi gtx 970 twin frozr 5, intel core i54690k, and corsair h100i cpu cooler. Realtime wattage monitoring on supported evga graphics cards. This video is tutorial how to overclock any gpu in our case gainward gtx970 refference to 1,4ghz using msi afterburner.
This is the swiss army knife of windowsbased gpu overclocking. Before overclocking, the gtx 1080 ti is typically 510 percent slower than the shiny new rtx 2080, but when the 1080 tis clocks are boosted, the shoe is on the other foot, with the old timer. As you can see, the best overclocker is the msi gtx 970 gaming 4g, as it reaches the highest base clock and the joint highest memory clock. You can only go as high as the voltage will let you, nvidia has the voltage locked.
This affordable model comes with the new twinfrozr v cooler. While this article focuses on the geforce gtx 960, the guide can be used for virtually any modern graphics. I also found another msi gtx970 gaming 4g, same as in the original post picture. In this guide, i will be using the popular third party software msi afterburner. Today i will show you how to overclock your gtx 970 with voltage tweaks to get higher clocks. Gtx 970 mini undervolting fixed black screen and allowed. Zotac has its own firestorm application, but evgas precision and msi afterburner all work as well, with no difference in final results. View entire discussion 10 comments more posts from the nvidia community. I didnt touch the memory clock because i always get issues when i adjust it.
Whether you use the card preoverclocked or use the gaming app to use its full potential, you can just get right into the game and enjoy sublime performance. Hello i just recently purchased an msi gaming laptop equipped with the gtx 970m graphics card. Using afterburner wont blow the gpu youd have to go into the bios for that, but unless you arent planning on buying another card in like the next 7 years, overclocking is fine. Overclocking through the msi gaming app is covered by warranty to take away your worries. Secondly, if so, i must be doing something wrong, because i cannot seem to get any decent performance out of my nvidia geforce gtx 960 with 2 gb ram. Yep, the overclocked strix 970 exactly matches the performance of a stockclocked gtx 980, and the tweakedup msi 970 is a smidgen faster than that.
The msi gtx 1080 ti gaming x 11g scored 12,877 in 3dmark fire strike extreme easily eclipsing the founders edition 1080 ti by almost 5% and giving a lead of almost 23% over an overclocked gtx 1080. Msi s venerable afterburner is the best place to start when it comes to overclocking your graphics card. Overclocking the gigabyte gtx 970 g1 updated 121614. The 970 g1 features gigabytes windforce cooling unit, which as of november 1st, 2014 appears to be the best heatsink assembly for the geforce gtx 970 cards.
This overclocking utility from gigabyte supports gtx 950, gtx 960, gtx 970, gtx 980, gtx 980 ti, gtx titan, radeon rx 460, rx 470, rx 480, gtx 1050, gtx 1060, gtx 1070, gtx 1080 graphics cards. First of all, is this the right to ask for guidance regarding overclocking with afterburner. This gtx 980 overclocking tutorial will walk through how to overclock nvidias maxwell architecture, explain power target %, voltage, memory clock, and more. If you run software that requires a heavy graphics card which you dont have, there is one possible solution to your problem. There are two clock speeds associated with a graphics card, a gpu clock speed and a memory clock speed. This is an overclocking application that will use your gpu and your rams latent strength to make your system cope with software like 3d games so that they can run without any. Gtx 970 overclocking you are obviously advised to use msi s afterburner, but they all work.
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