Update6: Never trust Maxwell to be stable. Ever. Nvidia sucks. (newest post)

[RussianSensation]

You need a golden chip with top-class VRMs and caps to be able to add any voltage without a BIOS mod. The added power target doesn't do anything except for allowing a higher max boost; it doesn't affect the offset.

Here is food for thought - overclock without a voltage increase. Let the card figure out the voltage on its own. Everyone knows that Maxwell can lower Boost Clock when it runs into the power / TDP target. When you increase the voltage of the card, you start hitting your power target which forces the card to drop clocks. That means sometimes you get the best overclocks when you overclock on stock voltages because the extra TDP room is left for GPU clock instead of being used up by the GPU voltage spike that causes increased power usage. Why do you keep insisting that you need to overclock with a voltage bump knowing how Maxwell overclocking actually works?

Secondly, you said the added power doesn't affect anything except allowing higher max boost. Guess what, the higher max boost IS overclocking. That's why increasing the power target to the maximum allowed is the first step to overclocking on Kepler and Maxwell.

Did you bother watching any overclocking reviews of Maxwell at all? You absolutely do not need to increase GPU voltage to get 1.4-1.5Ghz Boost clocks. You work off your power target and your Offset. GPU voltage increase for Maxwell cards helps when you have a much beefier cooler and a way greater power target.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98P_NjK3ft8

 

[Techhog]

Here is food for thought - overclock without a voltage increase. Let the card figure out the voltage on its own. Everyone knows that Maxwell can lower Boost Clock when it runs into the power / TDP target. When you increase the voltage of the card, you start hitting your power target which forces the card to drop clocks. That means sometimes you get the best overclocks when you overclock on stock voltages because the extra TDP room is left for GPU clock instead of being used up by the GPU voltage spike that causes increased power usage. Why do you keep insisting that you need to overclock with a voltage bump knowing how Maxwell overclocking actually works?

Secondly, you said the added power doesn't affect anything except allowing higher max boost. Guess what, the higher max boost IS overclocking. That's why increasing the power target to the maximum allowed is the first step to overclocking on Kepler and Maxwell.

Did you bother watching any overclocking reviews of Maxwell at all? You absolutely do not need to increase GPU voltage to get 1.4-1.5Ghz Boost clocks. You work off your power target and your Offset. GPU voltage increase for Maxwell cards helps when you have a much beefier cooler and a way greater power target.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98P_NjK3ft8

Max without voltage increase is ~1425MHz. I didn't start adding voltage until I hit the voltage limit. Even then, I still can't trust it because it might hit the voltage limit, so 1400MHz. At that point, there's no longer a point in overclocking it. This chip is a dud, but it wouldn't be if Nvidia's minimum voltage is reasonable. So, I'm done. I'm never overclocking again, since all I get is duds.

This thread's done. I've requested for it to be locked.