Sajin

Tweaked
Ok, Need some help here.  My score is getting lower the higher my clocks go.  Right now I'm sitting  at +120 core and +400 mem, and my score was 6715.  However, when I was at +120 core and only +350 mem I score 6732.  I'm pretty sure I hit my voltage limit.  I have it set for +120%.  I'm guessing that my card is throttling, but I don't see that in my clock speeds.  I'm still hitting 2100 or higher on core and 5400 memory.  What do you guys think?
 

Post a link to your score.

Here you go.  BTW, I updated my last post because I reran the benchmark at the same settings and got a much better score.  This is the new score.
 

3DMark appears to be broken for me when it comes to detecting system components. However, I've just managed to get 7,531 (overall) after allowing higher current for my CPU overclock. The latest GPU driver also appears to have helped with overclocks... slightly.

Is it normal that I can have stable OC for benchmarks but it would crash in game (overwatch in this case) after a while? My card can do 2126 with the curve but can only manage +60mhz setting the slider.

FljpFl0p
Is it normal that I can have stable OC for benchmarks but it would crash in game (overwatch in this case) after a while? My card can do 2126 with the curve but can only manage +60mhz setting the slider.

Yes.

RAV-Daarken
Here is my Time Spy for the 1080FTW 
7 049

And the graphics score? That is the score that matters the most!

New scores after cpu upgrade :)
 
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/14319631?
 
top score before upgrade 
 
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/14087366?
 

Viper453
New scores after cpu upgrade :)
 
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/14319631?
 
top score before upgrade 
 
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/14087366?
 

Nice bump in scores after your upgrade...

Sajin

Viper453

Sajin

Viper453
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/14086254?
 
didn't do too well here.
 
after some playing around I think i might been bottle-necking my cpu or something.
 
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/14087366?

Benchmark using a monitor that doesn't have g-sync. You'll see your score go up. 

Well I disabled gsync and got a higher score thanks.
 
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/14108716?

No problem. Disabling g-sync is only half the fix. You need to completely disconnect your g-sync monitor and use a monitor that doesn't have g-sync at all.

What's the deal with this? Is it a know issue? Is a fix in the works? Very strange...and kinda disappointing!

Nice graphics score!
I hit 8300 with a 1080 FE @ 2190MHz.
Does your card throttle in any way with 2190MHz? Did you add the +100 on voltage?

You could try the curve editor and set voltage/clock points manually, but I had the experience that this will results in worse scores than a normal offset OC.
Could be that 2190MHz is too much for your card. 2177MHz is already one of the top OC clock speeds.
Maybe fans at 100% could help or water cooling. But watercooling might just give you 13-26MHz more.
Try fans at 80-100% just for testing. That's what I am doing anyway...
My benchmark scores are done with a watercooled GPU and cooling it at full blast with 2190MHz core and 5600MHz memory. Daily OC is 2100MHz with 5500MHz and silent cooling.

How do you think?
 

 
EVGA 1070 SC

Dschijn

Ethan Cole
How do you think?

It's ok... did you OC it?

Not yet, I've only set the Fan in Aggressive Mode with Precision X.
 
In fact, I don't know how to overclock, never done before I admit. Can you link me some guide?

Dschijn

Ethan Cole
In fact, I don't know how to overclock, never done before I admit. Can you link me some guide?

Regarding the OC itself:
Anything above 2GHz is good.

- install and open MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision X

- install and open Unigine Valley in window mode! Do NOT look at the clock speed of your GPU that Unigine Valley is posting, it is wrong. Look at MSI Afterburner/Precision X.

- switch to MSI Afterburner/Precision X and set the power target to 120%, temperature target back to the stock setting (unlink temperature from power target), should be 83°C

- increase voltage to max value (this is optional to get even better OC results)

- set your fan speed to a fixed much higher speed for testing and do not mind the noise!!!!

- let the card warm up for 1-2min

- set the core clock to the delta value you need to get from your current clock speed to achieve 1950MHz (e.g. +50MHz), hit apply, check stability in Valley for some seconds

- increase the offset in 25MHz steps, hit apply, test stability

- as soon as Valley or your GPU driver crashes (don't worry) you need to dial back to the last stable OC

- Verify that OC again with some games or 3dMark TimeSpy
 
 
Also take a look at this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKWbKCKsWVQ

That's good advice, but using a Curve gives new options. I'm using Afterburner and have a curve set for 1031v and above.
1031=+50
up to +120 or so for 1093

RAV-Daarken
I am not a person who has embraced Over Clocking very much, as I like to game primarily and I do not have a budget for high end equipment.

There is some irony here, because overclocking was originally a way for people without high end equipment to make it perform like it was high end.
 
The idea that people need high end equipment nowadays in order to overclock is kind of crazy, when you think about it. If your equipment was high end enough you wouldn't need to overclock.
 

With that said, I saved up to build my current system buying parts when budget allowed, and built the system on the last day that Windows 10 was free.
The drawback is that I have a bastard PC now, as here are the components:
 
Intel I7-4790k with a Corsair H100i
Asus Z97-A 3.1USB
16GB G-Skill DDR3-2400 TridentX
(1)x Samsung 950 Pro 512 GB M.2 SSD
(1)x Samsung 850 Pro 512 GB SSD
(1)x Samsung 840 Evo 500 GB M.2 SSD
(1)x EVGA GTX 1080FTW (Replaced a EVGA GTX 970 SSC)
(1)x Dell S2716DG 1440P G-Sync  (Purchased with the 1080)
 
Here is my Time Spy for the 970  
3 917
Here is my Time Spy for the 1080FTW 
7 049

Every PC should be a bastard PC. It just means you put into it what you wanted, instead of just saying "dude, I got a Dell!" and being happy with whatever they tossed into it. I built a PC back in 2005 which has evolved to my current system, which no longer has any of the parts from the 2005 build in it, but which was an incremental evolution of that build at each upgrade. That's one of the great things about building your own PC.

Your system looks fine to me. Check this out, though, and this supports what I've said in other threads about cpus and whatnot not being all that critical: your system only beats mine in this benchmark by a little over 100 points, and that's with my 6-year old X58 mobo and Xeon 5680 (basically the Xeon version of the old Core i7 980 6-core cpu). You're also using a 1080 FTW vs. my 1080 SC.

http://www.3dmark.com/spy/164464
 

Though it was time to have some GTX 1070 benchmarks too :D
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/14386554?