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what's up guys JC sends here and we're doing a long awaited video way overdue but yeah we're finally getting around to that and that is the complete overclocking guide to Pascal that's your GTX 1060 1070 1080 Titan XP and potentially in the future a GTX 1080 Ti which everyone seems to swear is right around the corner but that doesn't really matter today because it's still gonna ply to any of the Pascal GPUs both right now and future so with that said let's go ahead and show you how to pull the most juice out of a GT X 1080 both with fps and power consumption and get all the FPS hell yeah man we want we want all the FPS we want to literally crack our screen because we are just sending so many frames to it if you if you don't want that honey you've come to the wrong video man with its unique freeform modular system the new master casemaker v from cooler master allows unparalleled flexibility with its adjustable internal layout and exterior customization options learn more about how you can start customizing your own case by following the link down in the description so this video might end up being a little bit longer than the norm and for that very reason I want people to be able to come back and reference this video as a source for refreshing their your minds later on if you try to change your overclock so with that said I'm gonna be putting timestamps down in the description of the various chapters of this video so that you can come back and watch it later or skip ahead now if you already know some of the basics and you just curious as to what kind of results we get today for the sake of this demo so with that out of the way let's move forward you're going to need some tools here obviously you're needing a Pascal GPU this isn't going to work on AMD guys sorry it's also not going to work on the Maxwell or older GPUs this is purely Pascal overclocking guide some of what you'll see will work on Maxwell but the GPU boost three stuff we're going to talk about nope not at all so make sure you got a Pascal GPU if you want to get Pascal knowledge if you want fill your brain with some Pascal yeah all right you're also going to need an overclocking utility the two major ones are msi afterburner and EVGA precision XOC I am using precision X precision X OC is pretty polished compared to when it first launched so we'll be using that for the sake of today's video and then I'm using heaven benchmark just for this video but if I were actually trying to find max over clocks right now I would be checking out like 11 different programs because you'll find you might be stable in one and not the other causing you to have to reduce your clocks until you can find stability in your entire gaming library so keep that in mind if you're testing and you get a crash in heaven but you don't get a crash in Valley or 3dmark that's normal you just have to you have to dial in that overclock that works in all of your programs and that's half the fun and it could take hours days weeks months sometimes to find that max overclock the first thing you going to do here is you're going to right click on your desktop go to Nvidia control panel and by default we're going to be changing the power mode because by default it is set to optimal power which means give me some good performance but let's make things nice and efficient well if you're watching this video you don't care about efficiency you care about all that fps bragging rights so we're going to switch that to prefer maximum performance you'll hit apply mines and up there because already had it there now you're ready to go you've got Nvidia on the right page here we want more power I don't care about all the watts screw the Watts we want the powers so this is precision X say hi get acquainted you got me spending some time in here for a while especially when you're finding your max overclocks let's go ahead and talk about some things here so you understand and get some basic things set up on the left here these are your menu hot links you've got hardware monitoring and this is where you can monitor various things happening with your card I these are the things I recommend monitoring by the way to the very basics power percentage that's your power your power target memory clock if you're going to be overclocking your memory GPU usage we want to make sure we're under load or what our load percentage is GPU voltage that's kind of a given power limit this isn't set to either 0 or 1 so this is an on or off monitor if this ever hits one it means your power percentage maxed out and the card ended up throttling itself due to power limit so we just want to see if we ever hit one chances are you won't especially if you have an AI B card or something above a Founders Edition because they give you more power percentage to play around with so this never hits one GPU clock it's kind of the whole point of this video and our temperatures obviously we want all the FPS but we want to blow up our graphics card at least not yet so we want to go ahead and make sure that we keep the temperatures under control memory usage not important for overclocking only important if you want to know how much memory is being used in your games it's always fun to play around that at different resolutions to see how it responds and then of course fan speed that's only going to matter if you have an air-cooled card if you're doing this with a water-cooled Pascal card this is not really going to matter a whole lot especially if it's a full water block because then you have no fan so there's no point monitoring zero all the time now you can change what's being monitored right here by a couple of things you can click OSD settings up here in the menu or you can just right-click in the graph and then go to properties and this will show you everything that you're monitoring so these are all the possible things you could monitor a lot of is fluff you don't really need to look at and then if you want to show up in the monitor you make sure your graphics card is highlighted here however many graphics cards you have you can monitor each one individually obviously I only have one GT X 1080 classified in here right now so I've got it showing up in the monitor which is here and on screen display which is the overlay inside of the games so you can turn it on for both or for one or vice versa however you want it to be and you can also change the color of each individual item inside of the color palette right there so you can have different things be different colors but it's labeled in OSD choice I just leave it white not that big of a deal and then if you look down here you can toggle OSD on and off by hitting f12 or you can rebind that key to something else the K here stands for K Boost we'll talk about that in a minute it's something you can use to find your stable overclock or at least find out what your max clock attempt is going to be before you start but I don't recommend using it full time but we'll talk about that when we're ready over here you can obviously see the graphics cards that are currently installed have 110 a Declassified in there it doesn't say classified but trust me it is you can tell because this number is going to go pretty high right there and then for those of you with air-cooled cards like this one this is going to be a big deal for you right here this is where you can control your fan if you click the curve button it'll bring up another menu you can play with your fan curve right here you can make it really sharp you can make it you know quiet obviously if you're overclocking your card we want we are sacrificing noise for thermals so get used to it it's going to be loud it needs to be loud you want to keep it cool but these fans are meant to run fast so I recommend going to a hundred percent if you can avoid it but with that said you are going to be sacrificing thermals or noise for thermals so just expect it so looking at the gauge right here you've got your GPU clock obviously that's the bread and butter of all this you've got your memory clock this tends to freak out a lot of beginners because they think that oh my god I'm supposed to have ten thousand but it's only showing five we remember guys it is DDR which stands for double data rate so we are going to see this number times two so obviously my effective memory speed right now is ten thousand ten megahertz not five thousand five so you got to keep that in mind whatever number you see here times it by two and that is your effective voltage in millivolts and of course our a GPU temp it's kind of warm in this room right now so that numbers a little bit higher than I'd like it to be but whatever so moving forward there are two ways that you can overclock your Pascal graphics card you can just do it manually here by playing with the sliders or you can do it using GPU boost three a GPU boost is nothing more than a curve that says at various voltage ratings change my offset or my additional clock speed I want to add to the GPU boost to a certain number okay now I know somewhere out there just went what what what the heck does that even mean well here is the factory basic curve right here you can see it is just like it sounds it is a curve it is not straight so what that means is as we get up here in the higher voltages which by the way that does cut out at 1093 on pascal even though they show you can go all the way to eleven sixty two uh that's not true you can you have to stop at ten ninety three nothing above that is going to take any sort of effect so i wouldn't worry about trying to tune up to eleven sixty three it's not going to happen but as I said it is based on a curve so if I want to start overclocking the max clock what I can do is I can start clicking a little bit higher and as you can see it adds an offset whatever the value is that I'm clicking so however high I'm going above that 200 megahertz 175 125 that is going to be applied throughout the entire curve on the basic setting if I go to linear wherever I click on the highest setting it's going to create a linear line which is not going to be a curve like this so this is probably going to lead to crashing because you're more likely not going to be able to add hundred megahertz to your boost clock that's that's just not going to happen or you can do it manually where you set each individual square and it takes a lot of time it's not really all that necessary so to understand how all this works you have to do a base test so for that let's go ahead and start up heaven benchmark we've got our OSD on and let's go ahead and see what the clock speeds are let's let it load up here let's let it gain a little bit of heat and then let's see what the numbers are you're not going to know how effective your overclock is if you don't least have a base run alright so looking over here at the left these are the things we're monitoring you can see our power usage here is only sitting in the high 70s low 80s our GPU clock is 2012 our memory clock is five thousand six or in this case ten thousand twelve our GPU temperatures at 52 I do have a higher fan curve on there so that's why you're not it's not going to go too much higher than about sixty our memory usage is only a little over a gig our GPU voltage is at 1.06 three and my fan speed is at seventy six and as I mentioned earlier this power limit ever hits one it means we hit a hundred percent of our power limit telling us that we had to throttle based on power so what you're going to do now is you're just going to kind of observe you're going to see what's happening here you see our voltage is already dropped down to 1.0 for for from 1.0 6-3 why is that well the temperatures climbing as this number goes up this number right here is going to go down as well as the voltage because remember the voltage is tied to the clock so as the clock comes down due to temperature the voltage will come down with it that's how it controls its temperature now 56 57 58 C is not a lot but remember that that control it's dynamic it is going to slowly adjust itself as temperatures and power changes it's not going to just be like a hard sudden drop which would also give you a hard sudden drop in frames per second giving you a bad experience so what I would honestly recommend is let this thing loop for about 20 minutes to find what your max numbers are with a base run and then start adjusting from there but I'm not going to wait 20 minutes I'm going to go ahead and quit out of here so if you want to see how the curve effects things so then I would go over here to the 1093 square which is actually the fourth one over one two three four and then I would just add like let's say a let's just go with a hundred megahertz apply so now we've just applied that curve so as you saw if we look over here at our monitor our GPU clock went up to twenty twelve or twenty twenty-five as you can see in our max but then we settled at nineteen eighty-seven we can also give ourselves a little bit more fan speed here remember you're going to be sacrificing noise for temperatures so now we've already got our plus 100 let's go ahead and start it up again and just observe and this is what overclocking with GPU boost or even your manual settings is going to be a lot of change this test change this test and if you crash more than likely it'll either just say the driver crashed or will hard lock your system you just restart reach Ange your settings and start again but if you look at the core clock we already hit twenty one hundred and twenty or twenty one hundred one megahertz at one point o5o volts by doing nothing more than clicking that one little square some people would be more than happy with this and you're done but that that that's not me that's that's just not how I work I mean you guys should know that by now right so anyway you will let this loop and loop and loop let the temperatures equalize see where it settles out and there you go now obviously that's not good enough for me I like to push things over here on the left hand side right here you also have a voltage adjuster where you can tell it add more voltage now this right here I used to think what I'm like what is this voltage percent what is 100 percent mean well what that means is as you guys saw on that last test we only hit what 1.0 for 4 to 1.0 500 volts from the test before that 1.06 3 remember I told you 1.09 3 was the max we didn't see that yet did we what this little chart is saying right here is allow the voltage to go percentage of max being from where it's going to boost to - how much farther it can go and in this case it's only about 30 millivolts so that putting it to 100 even though it's red and it warned you like try not to blow up your GPU this is saying allow it to go to 100% of the available voltage well since we have a curve here that tells us allow the GPU to go higher based on a curve if I up the voltage what's going to happen well let's apply it let's ramp up our fans even higher just in case and let's start it again let's see if we get more core o'clock if you remember in the last run we had a one hundred twenty one hundred and one megahertz clock is it going to go higher I don't know I only did a plus one hundred offset but look at that and went 220 114 and you can see it's at one point oh six three volts see that right here we're looking at OSD so our fan speeds at 90 our temperatures are well in check as you guys can see there's your classified cooler with the fan turned up it is pretty damn good what you can see we just gained 13 megahertz or one core step it remember it steps in 13s it's really kind of strange but anyway we just gained one step by doing two things we clicked a square on the curve and we simply said let the voltage go farther so as you can see our voltage is now going to 1.0 7-5 1.08 1 and over time you you will see that 1.09 3 and our core clock as you can see right here is staying exactly where we want we don't want it bouncing around and stuff and so far that's not what's happening now the longer we let the test go it might drop down a step or two as the temperatures reach the 60s and here's what I'm gonna do I'm going to go ahead and go to a manual setting none of this matters to me I don't game in this range I game up here so I'm just going to let this stay factory and I'm only going to adjust the high end and I'm going to go plus 150 let's see what happens with plus 150 it plus 100 got us 2114 what's plus 150 going to do so I just went all the way across the match range at plus 150 I guess we'll do a couple steps we'll do a couple steps down to like that so now it's just 150 across the top and the only reason I did manual is like I said I didn't want it to apply that plus offset to the lower voltages and frequencies because it's not that important so I'm going to right now is I'm going to try a plus 175 in my manual range because I are in the manual curve because I don't want the lower frequencies to change I'm okay with the lower frequencies just staying with the stock boost but I did a plus 175 offset on the 10:43 and higher frequency so got to hit apply otherwise it won't save and if you're curious as to what K boosts does this button right here will force the GPU to go to its max o'clock even at idle so with that said let's go ahead and see what plus 175 is going to get us here on the GPU so it's interesting here as you can see that that's really just kind of chilling out at 2114 now no matter what I do and the voltage is still not going that much farther so that's one of the reasons why I'm not a huge fan of GPU boost so even though I'm adding offset there as you can see I added an offset of plus 175 it still stayed the same when I did plus 100 earlier so that should be seventy-five megahertz faster at the very least so let's do this and let's go back to default let's go be here to the manual tab put this back up because we need to keep our fan nice and fast especially on hot days I'm going to change the power target up to 130 I'm gonna set the priority to temperature them saying don't even start to throttle this GPU until it's 91 C which it's never going to hit so I'm gonna do here is I'm going to do the same plus 175 offset and I'm going to hit apply well now I'm kind of curious as to what that offsets going to put me at is it going to immediately crash it's going to be way too high well if I hit K boost that's going to force the card into max o'clock speed at at the desktop or at idle it's just going to go and as you can see that's a 20 189 megahertz overclock which I already know is not going to work with this card so why don't I try 150 and hit apply well you can see it dropped down to 20 164 so that's what I would use K boosts for you can use that when doing benchmarks to find your max overclock but I wouldn't leave it there all the time because you're always gonna run your your core clock in your voltage as high as it would go so I would turn that off now that I get out of GPU boost which you guys just saw no matter what I did to that curve even in manual I couldn't it wouldn't allow me to go any farther than 20 114 which was really disappointing so now I've taken manual control which is the other part that I already showed you on how you can actually overclock your graphics card so we saved our settings we got our fan ramped up and let's go ahead and see what happens so as you can see now in heaven we're running at 20 164 megahertz for only 85% into the power limit so I could have still left it at a hundred it's not drawing more power by raising the power limit it's just raising the limit but as you can see we still haven't even pulled a hundred percent of that 230 watt TDP so right now if I'm at 80 percent of 230 I'm curious how much is this card drawing it's probably realistically drawing somewhere around 184 watts which is really not it's only 4 watts higher than what the founders te TDP is but you can see that we did just step down 1 to 20 152 and this is kind of normal this is the stuff you're going to see and that you're going to experience when you're doing your your overclocking now why did it do that well look we're at 1.0 6 3 volts we're not a 1.0 9 3 like we should be so what I want to go and check right here is did I raise my voltage nope see the voltage is still sitting here at 0 so here we are now at 100% hit apply hit run and what we should theoretically see here now is a 1.09 3 volt they will eventually get there after like maybe 30 seconds and it stays at 2164 so here we are 21 64 and a voltage that 1.0 6 3 and now we're stepped up to 1.0 1 or 0 8 1 and then you're going to see the 0.93 it might might show 9 4 on this app but we're going to notice here is that this core speed is going to stay it's not going to fluctuate so there it is you can see now we're at 1.0 9 4 volts we're pretty much pushing the card as hard as it can go temperatures just hit 60 61 it'll probably balance out around 63 with the fans at 90% with this level of overclock now I can push it slightly farther if I want but I know that this card isn't stable above that because I've done lots of testing with this card already I already know for a fact that my card is going to artifact now artifacts are basically errors in the GPU rendering it's if you be Greens triangles or black lines or foot white flashes rainbow colors anything if you see any of that even just a little bit then you need to back it off just until that goes away but that is basically how you overclock the Pascal GPU the memory overclocking is exactly the same as it always was you can add an offset and I happen to know for a fact that most most of the 1080 and 1070 cards can handle a plus 500 on the memory which is actually a pretty big deal but guys that's it that's what you have to tweak that's what you have to play around with don't get too stingy with your fan curve you're going to be sacrificing acoustics for thermals just get used to it hope you have a case that's quite enough and can provide enough air flow for your GPU to stay cool but you can gain a lot of additional fps you can typically see about an extra 5 or 6 fps in a benchmark by just simply playing with some of these sliders so it's kind of a big deal and it's works with all graphics cards you just don't get GPU boost 3.0 with anything that's not a Pascal card alright guys thanks for watching hope this video helped you guys you guys been asking me how to overclock a Pascal I hope this answers all those questions if it doesn't geez I'm sorry the video is way too long as it is but it's time to go hit me up put down you put down in the comments what your overclocks are what card you're running what brand and what model so that others can kind of get an idea of what they might see typically you're going to find 10 80s can hit about 20 50 you're going to find that 10 seventies clock a little bit higher because has less CUDA cores hitting nearly 2200 in many cases but with that said guys put your results down in the comments hit me up on Twitter share them with me I will share them with the world and together we can raise the FPS Q the the Sarah McLachlan music alright guys see you the next one