The 780ti classified is already massively overclocked compared to the vanilla GTX 780 so if you're expecting even far greater overclocking than that it's a luck of the draw.

We see posts like this time and time again.  Every card will overclock differently.  All you are guaranteed is that the card performs to the advertised clock speeds.  If it does that, your card is performing as it should.  Even though these cards are designed and expected to be overclocked beyond stock, there is no guarantee on how much or how little they will.  It is all a gamble and the "silicon lottery" on how lucky you got with the chip. 
 
However, to really get higher overclock, you need to apply more voltage.  To get higher than the 1.21V you will need to use the Classified voltage tuner.  This will allow higher voltages.  But it is used at your own risk.  It would best to have a digital multimeter handy if you plan on doing this to get accurate voltage that your card is seeing.  It is not wise to rely on the accuracy of the software reporting. 
 
If you have an account over at overclock.net, follow this link to all the info you need and more:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1411500/official-evga-classified-owners-club
 
I know its disappointing to not get the results you want, but as long as it performs to the advertised specs or greater, the card is operating and performing as it is guaranteed.
 
 
edit: Keep in mind, your card is able to get to 1202MHz.  Advertised clock speed is guaranteed to be 1020MHz per the EVGA literature.  So your card is already overclocking almost 18% greater than advertised.  That is already a pretty decent amount.

It amazes me every time I see these type of posts who are willing to ditch a well reputable company after being with them for many years just because they didn't get a top overclocking card in the GPU lottery. Especially since you have had 5 GPUs from EVGA that you were completely happy with. I'm not sure if you know this or not, but ditching a company for that particular reason will not fix anything. Try a different company if you like, but you'll still be playing the lottery no matter what. With your mentality, though, you'll be back to EVGA pretty soon.

Hood, have you tried the EVGA optional bios? I use it over the third party bios options, and get really good performance out of it, personally. Just curious if you have tried that as of yet. If not, EVGA_Chris would be the one to get it from, or through tech support. I have had really bad luck with three Classified cards and the Skyn3t Bios Revisions.

Both the EVGA and skyn3t BIOS completely borked my Classified when I had it. I stuck with the stock LN2 BIOS and was at 1240mhz/7950mhz 

Go back to the stock LN2 BIOS

ok your not getting what i was saying man. if i buy a card that should over clcok outta the box well as it was advertised to do so. it should yes i got lucky with my gtx 670 ftw 3gb i got it up to 1306 on stock bios. it was a great card for its time. 

Are you just playing games? If so, just leave the card at stock clocks.

hoodninja89
ok well lemme ask a noob question than. on the evga software it says my core is at 1032 and in unigene valley it says 1228 core? which one is right the over clock should be going to 1228 core but the software says it isnt. so now im more confused. 

EVGA Software is correct. Which classified do you have? This one or this one?

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/3866752?
 
if my overclock can make it throught 3d mark 3 times all the test's does that make it stable? the core is at 1228 (boost) and memory at 3703 that's all i really wanted out of it on air. 
i have a nzxt g10 but not sure if those are really safe to put them on? cuz the ram would just be out in the open with out much cooling except passing air from my front 200mm fan.
 

The nzxt g10 will not require the removal of the heat plate that is used to dissipate heat from the Ram, so it should be fine if you get airflow over that area. I personally wouldn't put a $25 fix on a $750 gpu, but if you decide to, it should be OK.

I have not, but you could always place another fan on the other side, or even get side intake fans to blow directly over the VRM and memory. The x61 would definitely lower the Core temp a lot, and would definitely decrease the overall temps I would think, as the Core wouldn't be spreading heat to the heat plate anymore.

i have the nzxt phantom 630 with the window and the fan panel. i guess i could put it on but i like the window 

now im really tempted to go with the water cooling build i planned out on frozencpu but i wanna upgrade my mobo before i do that. pc gaming isnt cheap.

thats kinda how i feel right now too even thought its been less than 48 hours since i did my first bios flash. ahahhahahhaha