Sorry to bother you, last question.
 
How do know if an overclock is stable? Usually what am doin is that once I found my voltage I start to crank up the core clock by +15 mhz increments and then run a benchmark, if it passes benchmark without voltage dropping and without core clock dropping significantly (usually it drops a few mhz but nothing crazy) then this gives me greenlight to go another +15 and so forth.
 
But then I start to notice my score is not changing or its slightly going down, again it doesn't go down crazy like 3704 goes to 3655 in superposition, so does that mean my overclock is becoming unstable even though it held the core clock, voltage and temp was all good and that I should start dialing it down or is it okay to keep going up as long as benchmark doesn't crash?
 
Finally, lets say I find my absolute max core voltage, how can I 100% be sure it wont crash in games? I was thinking of doing another 1 hr 8k superposition and see if it doesn't crash, what you think?

Benchmark stable doesn’t mean game stable. Always test your overclock in game if you want to run an overclock in game. I would keep going up until I crash unless the score keeps going down.

hey sajin, when i do this, then open kombustor stress test my "line" and my clocks just go back to jumping around like they always have, due to gpu boost or whatever, but they do not remain fixed. what gives? i have my card on water and it never sees 50*C so idk why it throttles at such low temps. i have a PNY 1080. any help appreciated, thanks!

also is there a 1080 non ti bios that disables gpu boost? how safe is it to flash bios'?

gl1tch88
hey sajin, when i do this, then open kombustor stress test my "line" and my clocks just go back to jumping around like they always have, due to gpu boost or whatever, but they do not remain fixed. what gives? i have my card on water and it never sees 50*C so idk why it throttles at such low temps. i have a PNY 1080. any help appreciated, thanks!

Hmm. Not sure.

gl1tch88
also is there a 1080 non ti bios that disables gpu boost? how safe is it to flash bios'?

No, there isn’t one.

Graphite8five

Sajin
Don't know works fine for me...
 

Will it still drop rungs based on temperature?

Thank you Sajin for this nice guide. I notice that you are voltage limited in the graph above. When I do this procedure, I notice I am power limited with the KPE. Although you only show power percent, my power tops out at 440w, even with the OC or LN2 bios. I am power/voltage limited with a square wave pattern showing alternating limits from either of these two parameters during a port royal run. From comments you have made elsewhere , it seems temps over 40 are the reason. Somewhere I read that the bios is programmed to dynamically reduce clocks 1 bin for every degree over 40. Is this correct?
Anyway I am at 48 degrees with full fans (replaced stock fans with noctua A12-25pwm). My sliders are all to the right in afterburner. I guess I need to use the classified tool and flip some dip switches to raise the voltages. Then my power limit will be solid. Or is that not the goal?

Yeah, with 2080 ti anything over 40c is when gpu boost started pulling MHz, but it wasn’t 15 MHz for each degree over 40c. 40c was just the first temp at which gpu boost will start to pull the first 15 MHz. You don’t want to hit the power limit as your card will throttle even harder. You want to utilize as most of the 520w limit as you can without hitting/exceeding it.

Anyone know how to get Precision X1 voltage curve editor to behave like the one MSI afterburner? what I mean I want to rise just 1 node on my selected voltage, hit apply and have the rest of then nodes auto align to my selection. I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this. technically I could sit there and move each one separately, but then I can't even use the arrow keys to nudge them up by 1 mhz at a time for fine adjustement.
I like some of the features the X1 gives me for the 3090 that afterburner doesn't and would like to use X1 instead, but not at the expense of not being able to tweak voltage curves fast.

great info! thanks for the share

Thanks for the info! Helping the newbies like myself. 👍