Should I oc a factory oc GPU?
Should I oc a factory oc GPU?
it's already been heavily overclocked, so little can be done about it.
GPU Boost 3.0 on present Nvidia cards already achieves significant improvements, often surpassing the advertised speeds on the box. The main motivation for adjusting the settings comes from those who wish to extract maximum performance from their hardware or who aim to reduce heat generation with only a minor performance drop.
MusenMouse evaluates whether the performance gain justifies the potential risk of reducing card lifespan.
Usually speaking, 2-3 fps is typical in games that move a lot. It's not worth the effort unless you manage a really good character build. My GTX970 doesn't support GPU boost 3, so the 124% overclocking it handles nicely.
There's not much upside to it as you can usually squeeze 5-10% at most out of Pascal cards factory OC (Most can be manually OCed to 2000-2100Mhz). However there is also no downside to it, as NVIDIA pretty much locked BIOS setting in the safest zone. You won't be able to screw up Voltage or anything at all, there is almost zero risk to it.