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Safe "precision" boost numbers?

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Saturday, July 09, 2011 10:37 PM (permalink)
Hi I have a GTX 465 and I notice the Precision tool will let you scroll up to ridiculous amounts but I'm wondering what are the breakpoints of failure.

I'm currently running it at:
 
Core Clock 780
Shader Clock 1560
Memory Clock 1675
Fan Speed 60
 
At full load it's hitting 78-80* C  Idle it's running 36-38* C

So I'm wondering if upping it is safe, will even increase my performance, and what a good temp is. Thanks for any help!
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    ChrisS
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    Re:Safe "precision" boost numbers? Saturday, July 09, 2011 11:21 PM (permalink)
    The maximum GPU temp for this card is 105c.
    Generally speaking, there is no "safe" overclock, even with two identical pieces of hardware, one may be able to achieve higher clocks than another. Your best bet for overclocking, is to try bumping up the Core Clock and Memory Clock about 5-10Mhz at a time, applying the changes and then running a stress test to verify if it is stable or not. You can keep upping it a little at a time, until you start experiencing artifacts or issues, then taking it back down to what you had before without any issues and that would be your "safe" overclock.
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    Re:Safe "precision" boost numbers? Sunday, July 10, 2011 1:00 AM (permalink)
    So I can just keep upping it forever as long as I keep it under 90*C or so and as long as it's not glitching anything huh...interesting.
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    Re:Safe "precision" boost numbers? Sunday, July 10, 2011 8:54 PM (permalink)
    No, you cannot "just keep upping it forever".....and yes, under 90C is a good "safe" high temp to not exceed.

     
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    Re:Safe "precision" boost numbers? Monday, July 11, 2011 2:01 PM (permalink)
    There isnt a forever, cause I belive that near the 800 MHz you should start having artifacts, so go little by little and test with some benchmark after increase the core a little.

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    Re:Safe "precision" boost numbers? Monday, July 11, 2011 5:23 PM (permalink)
    Yea I found that my card tops out at 815 Core / 1715 Memory without bugging out at all, which is pretty good I guess.
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