So I was bored today and thought i'd OC my GPU (780Ti)
Got the clock up to 1164 before it would start to artifact, but on GPU-Z and the OC Guru software it would always run at 1200Mhz+ even though i set it to 1164 and on the non monitoring side of GPU-Z it would say 1164 but then on the monitoring side it would say 1200mhz or more, wtf?
So I tried turning up the voltage/"power" (what ever the fuck "power" is?!?! shouldn't voltage be power? there is no such thing as "power" when there is a voltage slider..)
It didn't stop artifacting..
I was doing tests in Sniper Elite 3 on max settings and I was getting between 50 and 60 FPS sometimes high 40s without the "overclock" that may or may not have worked because of this 1200mhz bullshit, and then with the OC it would be at 50-60 with half of the time it being at 60.
So after that I tried FurMark.. what hell.
So I did the burn in test and then the stupid GPU would fluctuate all over the place in clock speed during the test and it would never reach 1164 OR 1200mhz+ an it was still under 80c. The whole night it's never gone over 80c
There is probably some more stuff i'm missing but i'm too pissed off to think and shocked at all this marketing brain rape.
Oh yeah! And ever since these OC shenanigans my whole PC has been slugging around and youtube videos (unless in full screen) run at some shitty kind of 10-20fps). So angry at all this on going garbage after thousands of dollars.. companies just don't care anymore ay? haha
Hmm, i think I have heard a few things about gpu-z being glitchy, but then again OC guru said the same. They would both say that stock and boost clocks are at what veer I set them to, but then then the actual clock we be some random shit higher than what I ordered it to do.
stutter strtitere sutetr sute suteret siuet stutter sytiretrt stutter, that is literally all my pc is now, are OCs that volatile? Horrified, and I just got it replaced too..
Nah, that's what I was expecting but no apparently, well unless my temp sensors are way off..
The card never even reached 80, usually stayed at 70 for Sniper Elite and for FurMark it would eventually reach 80c but it would already have lowered the clock/never gotten to my preset OC before even getting close to 80c.
In OC Guru (gigabytes thing) there is also a temperature and "power" threshold but they are both at 100% and 82c.
it could definitely be something driver related, or something with the overclock software.
But did you also try to overclock the memory? also which software did you use for the overclock? most of the time if you get artifacts, the overclock on the core clock or the mem clock isnt stable.
Problem is your GPU is actually boosting to that 1200Mhz. nVidia cards dynamically "over-clock" themselves. If you are increasing the BASE clock, you are also increasing the BOOST clock. So while it is stable at the base clock, it is NOT at the BOOST clock, which is what it will run at if temperatures and board power allow.
That is why, even though your board power and temperatures look fine, you are having issues. Give it more voltage and increase the power threshold and try again.
Yeah I know what you mean, except it's like it has a 3rd boost clock, because when I OC it by adding let's say 100Mhz, it will say 1120 Base Clock/1185 Boost Clock..