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2014/11/13 07:38:13 (permalink)
Hi guys how's it going this is my first post here. I recently upgraded my system. I bought 2 evga gtx 760 ftw 4gb cards (one's installed and the other will arrive later today)
and I need to know about SLI, Safely overlocking (because I've already had to send a card back for RMA) and just any basic tips you guys can give me for properly installing 2 cards and then maintaining them, all of this knowledge would be greatly helpful to me in my gaming arena. (WOW) Thanks again, hit me up! see ya!
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Re: WARNING:DANGER:OVERCLOCKING NEWB AHEAD: Help! Need to safely o/c evga gtx760ftw4gb car 2014/11/13 07:58:54 (permalink)
You all scared??? lol
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Re: WARNING:DANGER:OVERCLOCKING NEWB AHEAD: Help! Need to safely o/c evga gtx760ftw4gb car 2014/11/13 07:58:55 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby d4rks0l 2014/11/26 18:15:23
Welcome on EVGA Forum.
Because your card is fabric overlocked 100MHz and because you will use for gaming I would not go on some higher overclock and you will not get much improvement in games if you push card from good overclock to very high overclock.
It would be good if you test one by one card and try to OC with EVGA Precision X 4.2.1 or Afterburner 4.0 and to check voltage necessary for some clock. You will go easy with +50 on GPU and than test with benchmark test, Firestrike, 3DMark 11, Unigine Heaven 4.0 and Unigine Valley 1.0 are usually what people use to test stability. If all test finish you will increase clock with +50 again. If your card after some time show instability, crash, freezing, you will try to add +50mV voltages. I don't know how much mV you have space for GTX760 but in most case after crash you will need max what software offer you for stability and if tests pass after that I think that would be highest possible.
Avoid any voltage mod and use only voltage available with softwares.
 
If you successful OC 100MHz over fabric OC I would not go any way over that.
But that would not be easy task to both cards work stable on such clock.
Video memory I think 100-150MHz will be good just to improve little memory speed.
 
Before you try any OC you will test on fabric settings both cards in same test on native resolution with highest settings, DX11.
3DMark 2013
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During testing try to keep fan speed on manual on 80%.
When benchmarks test finish and you confirm stability card need to prove self in gaming, that's hardest task usually and maybe you will need to drop clock little from game to game.
 
Other members will complement this with their tips, special people who are familiar with SLI.
Remember +50 on GPU > benchmark tests > +50 on GPU > benchmark tests until crash or artifacts, after you find max GPU Clock time is for memory but you will not get nothing over 150MHz, that's only to support GPU clock and maybe help for smoother gaming in some little percent if clock is not too high than effect could be opposite.  
For max stable clock or max gaming stable clock in most cases you will need days or even weeks and several games to confirm stability.
 
 
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Re: WARNING:DANGER:OVERCLOCKING NEWB AHEAD: Help! Need to safely o/c evga gtx760ftw4gb car 2014/11/13 18:07:51 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby d4rks0l 2014/11/26 18:20:29
What you should do before overclocking is set a manual more agressive fan curve. I have mine hit 100% at 80C and 72% at 62C. Reset your settings, take your power limit and slide it ALL the way over (110%). Un-link the power and temp target and set a manual temp of 85C and make the temp be the priority. Now, if you don't want to over-volt don't over-volt. Leave memory frequency at stock and start upping the core. Run EVGA OC Scanner X/Furmark with the 1080 preset for 6 minutes if your temps are within range and no artifacting (tick artifact scanner) proceed to up the core. Repeat these steps until either you start artifacting OR your temps go above 85C. You can keep going with higher temps if you wish, up to 89C NO HIGHER, but to be on the safe side I don't go above 85C to preserve the life of the card. Now when you begin seeing artifacts lower the frequency until you do not see anymore artifacts. Now launch unigine valley and run the 1080p preset. You might artifact in this one since it is more demanding on your system as a whole. Again lower the frequency until you are stable with good temps and no artifacts in unigine valley. NOW you may begin to play with the memory frequency. If you are well within temp range you can over-volt if you wish. Once you are done fiddling with the OC, launch a REALLY demanding game. Play it for an hour or two keeping an eye out for artifacts, i am assuming you know what they look like. 

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Re: WARNING:DANGER:OVERCLOCKING NEWB AHEAD: Help! Need to safely o/c evga gtx760ftw4gb car 2014/11/14 00:51:39 (permalink)
From my perspective GPU Clock Offset +100, Mem Clock Offset +150 would be ideal if you success to reach.
Remember add voltage will automatically increase boost clock for little and if you need to increase max voltage slider you should drop GPU Clock for 15-20MHz.

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Re: WARNING:DANGER:OVERCLOCKING NEWB AHEAD: Help! Need to safely o/c evga gtx760ftw4gb car 2014/11/26 18:19:28 (permalink)
This is what an artifact looks like? 

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Re: WARNING:DANGER:OVERCLOCKING NEWB AHEAD: Help! Need to safely o/c evga gtx760ftw4gb car 2014/11/26 18:31:18 (permalink)
 now im a genius heh heh lelz
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