Its not really worth it for me to overclock

Hardware Hub Overclocking
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so i ran the bioshock infinite benchmark at different over clocks on my r9 270 and this is what i got;

gpu:955mhz memory:1400mhz: 48.48fps avg

gpu:965mhz memory:1410mhz: 48.87avg

gpu:975mhz memory:1420mhz: 49avg

gpu:985mhz memory:1430mhz: 49.92avg

gpu:995mhz memory:1440mhz: 49.89avg

gpu:1015 memory:1450mhz: 49.54avg

p.s i think the decrease at higher frequency is just the benchmark in-accuracy

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those are some good gains.

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you call than an overclock?

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yeah its summer and its hot so i didnt go too far, i might go further next week when i have my operation done and im out of hospital

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1 frame every 50mhz i dont want to do that

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I would leave memory clocks alone and just play with core clocks for now.

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ok but just wondering, why is that

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Memory overclocks have limited gains for gaming and can limit your core oc. I still oc mine, but only after reaching top stable core speed. If you didn't BSOD you didn't try! Just my opinion of course.

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It's not like your loosing anything its free FPS. Also you should really benchmark more than one game do at least 2 more then try a benchmark like Heaven

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so just out of curiosity i ran the bench as well

stock: 1050/1250 65.24fps

oc: 1200/1400 71.6fps

as a whole it might seem trivial, and in many cases it might be, but when something isn't performing quite up to where you'd like a few extra frames can make a noticeable difference, and the big thing can be the much less crippling fps drops, as in that bench the minimum fps went from 1 to 10, both are bad, but one is significantly less bad

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or Valley as well, i have strictly move to only heaven and valley benchmarks as of recent... plus great scenes :)

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if i didnt fuck it up i didnt try? haha lol, well thats one way of finding the limits

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what did you run the benchmark on

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ok ill take your advice on it

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amd octa/7870, i may have run it at a lower setting than you, might explain the significant difference between your highest and my lowest

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i run it maxed on a msi r9 270 and an intel i5 4430

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sure let me know how you get on with it

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100 mhz past stock with .5 fps increase on ungine heaven :'(

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Like I said try a few games and 1 or 2 benchmarks. Overclocked performance may increase more in certain games. A good game to benchmark with if you have it is BF4 as although it has network issues the actual performance is very solid. Also I checked your profile to get an idea of what specs you have and more info would help. Oh and remove that link from your profile it's technically advertising.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D-QD_HIfjA