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[barnz]

Push that 690 as hard as you can whilst keeping it below 60C. Im not 100% on nvidia cards but I know radeons start turning off ALUs above 60c as the thermal properties must just rocket exponentially above there.

I have seen this when testing how hard I could push my R9 380 which settled at 1150mhz core 6300mhz ram. Was stable at 1170/6500 with core voltage maxed but the heat created a case of dimishing returns as it couldnt be kept below 60 and actually scored lower in benchmarks than the lower clock speed. Card is stable and functional and higher clocks/temps to like 80C+ but the performance diminishes.

Also from what I have seen 1mhz gpu overclock = around 10 3d mark points. 400mhz cpu overclock = nothing noticible. So yeah overclocking your GPU sees genuine gains

[Rab]

She wouldn't get out of the new setup, so had to dig the old one out for her.

 

[masda74]

She's gonna have an AWESOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME childhood mate.

Jelly........ Jellly... Jelly!!!

[Rab]

I've decided to say stuff it and re-live mine, this time with adult funds and no parents to say "no".

 

The grandaughter can come along for the ride

Edited 28/07/16 05:41 AM by Rab

[bloodycrashboy]

I would have thought that the pink and blue car was more her thing

[barnz]

f uck yes rab. Fuc k yes

[Rab]

41 minutes ago, bloodycrashboy said:

I would have thought that the pink and blue car was more her thing

 

She takes the pink and blue one down to the shops.

1flpp (front lead puppy power)

 

She wants to mod it to at least 1fldp (front lead dog power), but I don't think she's ready for it yet.

[bloodycrashboy]

8 hours ago, barnz said:

my R9 380 which settled at 1150mhz core 6300mhz ram. Was stable at 1170/6500 with core voltage maxed 

 

 

do you still have the same card?

if so, how long has it been running overclocked?

 

800 MHz increase on the RAM is nice

150 MHz increase on the clock , did it make much difference ?

[barnz]

Yeah I do, its only a couple months old. I expect it will be fine at the OC speeds as it was ASUS STRIX factory overclocked card anyway. The factory overclocks are always conservative the main difference over reference cards being on the power side of things. Basically gives the card the scope to handle more power draw and support more performance with more juice.

Hard to say exactly what netted it but the 160/800mhz overclock equaled about 1000 3d mark points on firestrike. that's a fair whack for just leaning on it harder and $0. So my guestimate of 1mhz = 10 points is a bit off. Perhaps not a linear scale. Radeons have twice the memory bandwith of geforces so seem to respond well to memory overclocks however the type of memory amd use is inferior to nvidias and gets flaky if you push it too hard.

[Rab]

All comes down to the silicon lotto