Is it possible to overclock the GTX 1070 on the 15R3?

Trying to see how many frames I can squeeze outta the card in Destiny 2... yes, I know, destiny sucks. Blah blah blah...I get it.

If it is possible to OV the 1070, what would be the numbers that keep it stable without crashing everything?

Any gurus on here that would know?

Thanks

 

AFAIK all pascal cards are unlocked. Perhaps shoot for thermal control primarily? I'd suggest keeping the card as cool as possible since Pascal tends to be extremely sensitive to thermals.

 

To OV a pascal MXM card and desktop card you already need to use a programmer and rewrite your BIOS with a hex editor etc, which already is hard enough for most users. I think OV a GTX 1070 BGA is impossible, even if you rewrite the vBIOS with a programmer I doubt the mainboard would allow higher voltage, so you're stuck with what you got there mate.

 

You'd can overclock the 1070 but you need a 3rd party application like MSI afterburner or EVGA Precision to do the job.

You'll have to play around with the sliders a little to see what is stable but it is doable for sure.

 

It's not impossible. These cards come unlocked so if you use MSI Afterburner or similar software to overclock it can be done. These aren't like desktops so I don't think you'd get more than a 10% increase but it's still something I suppose.

 

they are NOT unlocked, not in the slightest, it's the opposite. You can't change the TDP nor can you change the voltage or anything. The only thing you can do is add a couple of more MHZ to the mem and core clock. He doesn't want to OC it, he wants to OV and get a higher TDP it so that he can do a proper overclock.

 

Actually I want to OC...my bad. it was a typo...damn C qand V being so close together!!!
I thank you just the same for taking the time to reply.

 

You can overclock it with afterburner, but your FPS gains will be very small. You'll get gains in some older stuff, but in newer stuff, you're going to run into power limit problems, which will cause your FPS gains to be lower than what you would think you would be getting. You would have to buy a HW programmer and TDP unlock the cards (with the pascal bios editor linked in the Clevo section) to a higher TDP (like the desktop range 151W-170W), which will give you greater benefits.

 

Well you can download MSI Afterburner and see how much you get out of it then, I doubt it will be a lot tho.

 

Chiming in here with the 13R3 and GTX1060. You can get a pretty decent OC out of these cards. I went +160Mhz on the core and +250Mhz on the memory (can handle more) without any rise in temps. Unfortunately there is no voltage control.

 

Does it also run stable in 3dmark or valley?

 

Yep, and also stable during several hour long gaming sessions.

 

Don't apologise for long Destiny 2, it's a great game and we'll worthy of extra FPS gains, it looks gorgeous!

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@Drinky without any throtteling? You got higher scores in benchmarks?

 

Mileage may vary on overclocks. With the 10 series you are adjusting the frequency for each voltage point. When the cards hit thier power limit they lower to the last voltage point and frequency. Also temperature and voltage limits are in place and obeyed. Sometimes an overclock will result in lower performance. Sometimes an overclock will act like an undervolt. And sometimes you get a performance gain. Usually you will get a combination of greater power efficiency and greater performance with slightly higher average power draw and temps. Look for the sweet spot on your system.

Also destiny 2 is great. Glad they fixed the fps drops. Waiting on the fix for the stuttering that the new patch introduced.

Love the game tho. Ita hilarious to watch a fresh team try to sneak around the dogs in the raid.

 

Hehe yeah I just did that tonight! Not seeing any stuttering or FPS drops though, well maybe a tiny bit jerky during busy sections of the raid, is that what you mean?

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You would notice if you had it. Its a huge stutter that happens durring busy moments. Proabaly lose a good chunk of a second with no frames. Was introduced with the patch they rolled out on thursday.

Super happy they fixed the fps degrading over time tho. Lol it sucked when you were partway through something and boom your fps was lower and you had to restart. Im happy they seem to be working hard to fix the major bugs with this game so far. Ive seen MUCH worse in terms of bugfixing. Like when battlefield 4 was laggy due to the server side code and they only fixed it after like all the expansions were out probably so people would not badmouth the next one. I worked for EA. They are a horrible company.

 

Yeah that's cool and I agree, Bungie are really good investigating these things and implementing customer feedback in general!

BF4 (and BF3) were bad but not the worst though, that honour has to go to SimCity. What an absolute disgusting disaster that was. I'll never buy anything from Maxis again. Is it a co-incidence this was all published by EA?

 

I did 180+ GPU and 120+ MEM using nVidia Inspector Profile, so when I want to game, I just load this OC profile, otherwise I keep standard.
with this OC I am doing 5567 on 3D Mark, a pretty good result, sometimes reaching and surpassing some 1808 Max Q versions.

 

Yeah. Sim city 4 was amazing. I waited almost 10 years for a good sequel. And then we get sim city societies. Which is a joke. And some online only sim city with pretty 3D graphics and nothing in terms of core gameplay that actaully makes it fun.

I finnaly got cities skylines and havent looked back. Used isthereanydeal to get it for like 7 bucks. Complex geometric 3d huge cities. Backed up with an amazing traffic sim and tons of mods if you want those. They make thier money off the expansions but the base game with mods is amazing.

 

Thank you, I shall add it to my collection!