- Apr 8, 2015
- 5
- 0
- 0
Hi guys,
I'm very new to overclocking - the last time I did was on my old 680, where I gave it a very minimal boost. The other bit of OCing I did was using ASUS's mobo software that automatically OC'd my CPU to as high performance as possible, without me actually touching voltages etc.
My other specs:
Intel i7 2600K OC/4.7GHz
16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz (Though this is showing as 667 on benchmarks Should I play with my BIOS a bit?)
Anyway, I've started to OC my EVGA 980 SC. As I understand it, the tool to use is Precision.
So I've fired up 3DMark, and did a base run, got 11,600. Not too shabby.
I did some larger gains at the start, and eventually, I managed to get to the following, which is stable on Heaven, as well as 3DMark Firestorm.
As you can see, I didn't mess about with the voltages, I wanted the highest clock speeds I could achieve, without messing about with voltages. I'm getting scores on 3DMark of ~ 13,000 - very nice.
So my question now is this:
Am I doing it right?
By that, I mean - is this something I could run comfortably 24/7 on (e.g.) heavily modded Skyrim, Crysis 3 etc. without detriment to my card, nor any bad things happening generally?
And my other question is this:
How much further could I push this, before it becomes 'dangerous'? (And how could I do this?)
Essentially, I just want to eke out a bit more performance, as I'll be using this GPU to replace my 2 x 680 in SLi (I know this is more of a sidegrade, but eventually I'll grab another 980 and SLi that).
Cheers in advance lads!
I'm very new to overclocking - the last time I did was on my old 680, where I gave it a very minimal boost. The other bit of OCing I did was using ASUS's mobo software that automatically OC'd my CPU to as high performance as possible, without me actually touching voltages etc.
My other specs:
Intel i7 2600K OC/4.7GHz
16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz (Though this is showing as 667 on benchmarks Should I play with my BIOS a bit?)
Anyway, I've started to OC my EVGA 980 SC. As I understand it, the tool to use is Precision.
So I've fired up 3DMark, and did a base run, got 11,600. Not too shabby.
I did some larger gains at the start, and eventually, I managed to get to the following, which is stable on Heaven, as well as 3DMark Firestorm.

As you can see, I didn't mess about with the voltages, I wanted the highest clock speeds I could achieve, without messing about with voltages. I'm getting scores on 3DMark of ~ 13,000 - very nice.
So my question now is this:
Am I doing it right?
By that, I mean - is this something I could run comfortably 24/7 on (e.g.) heavily modded Skyrim, Crysis 3 etc. without detriment to my card, nor any bad things happening generally?
And my other question is this:
How much further could I push this, before it becomes 'dangerous'? (And how could I do this?)
Essentially, I just want to eke out a bit more performance, as I'll be using this GPU to replace my 2 x 680 in SLi (I know this is more of a sidegrade, but eventually I'll grab another 980 and SLi that).
Cheers in advance lads!