Hi everybody! In last few days I started to play with "clocks" of my EVGA GTX960 SSC and got certain numbers. The card itself already have pretty high numbers from the box, but I am too curious and want to know - what the highest possible "clocks" this card can handle? (Don`t ask why I want to do this :D)
 
Here is my numbers/settings (all those things was done in the Precision XOC 6.0.9 + latest FurMark for the stress test)
 
Core clock offset - 57 mHz. Total is 1493 + 57 = 1550 mHz
Memory clock offset - 545 mHz. Total is 3005 + 545 = 4050 (8100) mHz
Power - 115%
Voltage - +0 mV
Fan - 100% to keep it nice and cool) (I dont care about noise while I am testing her)
 
30+ minutes of staring at "hairy donut" proved that card handle this and maybe even more.
 
(Also, sorry for possible mistakes in words. English is not my native language)
 

arestavo
Depends on the cooling.

With LN2 you could get it insanely high - for short periods of time at least. With air cooling you are probably near the limit. With a watercooler you might be able to squeeze another 100MHz out of the GPU core, but each GPU is different.

Of course I am not planing to LN2 this thing. Talking about watercooling, even if I want, I think that nobody make waterblocks for the GTX960 (only GTX970 and higher). Maybe on air this GPU can handle even 1600 mHZ or 1600+ (1620 etc.) What about memory? It can EASY work at 8.1 gHz which is +1.1 gHz more then stock.

arestavo
I use a Kraken G10 bracket with a Kraken X41 AIO cooler. I'm not sure what the compatibility is on the 1060, but I've had mine on two different model 980 Tis and my 1080 ACX 3.0 base model card. Granted, I have to remove the mid-plate and sometimes the backplate to get it to fit properly depending on the card, but it works very well and can be moved from GPU to GPU as needed (unlike many custom waterblocks). Granted, if you want to push the VRAM really hard you might want to get some copper or aluminum heatsinks for them - I didn't bother with them for my VRAM or VRM and can run my 1080 at 2202MHz on the GPU and 11114MHz on the VRAM (I definitely (finally) won the silicon lottery).

I am not planing to do something with my cooler but your idea is interesting) About your 1080 GPU. 11 gHz RAM clock is freaking a lot!
 
I was checking what kinda additional setting Peecision XOC have and I gound this tab with toogles for "Overvoltage" and "Overboost". What they doing? Are they pushing GPU to overclock hereself even higher? (Stock auto-overclock is 1493 mHz) Or its for older GPUs that doesn`t have modern features? (Like GPU Boost 2.0 etc.)

Lopata
I was checking what kinda additional setting Peecision XOC have and I gound this tab with toogles for "Overvoltage" and "Overboost". What they doing? Are they pushing GPU to overclock hereself even higher? (Stock auto-overclock is 1493 mHz) Or its for older GPUs that doesn`t have modern features? (Like GPU Boost 2.0 etc.)

When overvoltage is enabled it allows you to adjust the cards voltage via voltage slider. Overboost provides a larger range of additional safe voltages to the classified and kingpin cards only.