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ladies and gentlemen please welcome Jays $0.02 founder and CEO Jays to sack g-force gamers welcome welcome are you ready are you ready it is time today we are gonna overclock the world's best graphics card under $300 under $300 ladies and gentlemen before today this was only a dream a dream of g-force gamers getting unsurpassed 1080p performance for under $300 Nvidia set out on this dream a long time ago with the development of the touring architecture and I'm proud to present to you today the 1660 TI overclocking guide I like boats that's why I let will the warship sponsor today's video well the warships is a free-to-play game that they call the thinking man's action game because has the perfect balance of action and strategy one of my favorite aspects of world of warships and I've been playing this game for more hours and I'd like to admit is the extremely high detailed weather effects and ship details with more than 200 ships across 11 nations there are a lot of different play 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1660 TI SC or XC black edition so it's the single fan with triple slot but I wanted to see what the best performance you could get out of the cheapest price point available to a sixteen sixty Ti they also decide to email me and correct me on like why it's called sixteen sixty TI and it's I guess it's quite simple the performance is closer to a twenty sixty but they don't want to call it a twenty fifty because they didn't want to confuse people thinking that I had r-tx because the twenty series has r-tx but it's far enough ahead of the ten sixty they didn't want to call it a ten Series card although fun facts if you want to download this driver it's under ten series but it's slightly better than halfway so it's closer to a twenty sixty then a ten series so sixteen is just over halfway between ten and twenty it's just that simple that's the official reason but the reason why I use the EVGA card at the 279 price point versus the Phoenix card from Asus is because of superior build quality now Asus the Strix card probably overclocks very very well but I stand by my opinion that it doesn't make sense to buy three hundred and $29 sixteen sixty TI when you can save an extra what fifty bucks 40 bucks and get yourself a twenty sixty which is 30% faster than this one for not 30% more money if that makes sense so it's like fifteen percent more money for thirty percent more performance that's a price ratio I can get behind so there's two pieces of software that you could use to overclock this card obviously MSI Afterburner yeah I mean that's kind of been like these staple overclocking utility for the longest time it's free as you can see we are running the four 19.170 burner for our overclocking here you can also use EVGA precision x1 if you have more than one piece of overclocking software installed though make sure they're not running together at the same time especially if they have two different profiles they're gonna be struggling for control of the graphics card now the voltage slider there's still debate on if this actually does anything and this is a percentage we talked about this a million times in every video we do about overclocking where all this does is move the percentage of where the max voltage will apply in terms of the frequency curve not actually apply more voltage so we always recommend starting with this at zero and then playing with this a little bit to see if it fixes stability once you find your max score clock so right here you got your power limit it's set to a hundred you've got your temperature limit set to 83 core clock and then memory clock so the first things we're gonna do max out the power limit in this card it's at a hundred and I reached out to EVGA to ask them why that is EVGA explained that the reference max power draw on this chip is 120 watts and what they've done is they've gone ahead and just made 100 130 watts so you're technically getting 10 extra Watts at the hundred and then just not letting the slider go any farther custom models like the Strix and then other like the duel and the duel fan stuff from EVGA those will have additional Headroom went the power slider but on this card they just maxed 100 and made that the max TDP rather than giving you a slider it just lets it go to it automatically so you don't hit that as soon don't necessarily think that you're not actually getting a benefit here you your cards total TDP could have increased at that 100 number temperature limit we're gonna max this thing to looks like Max is 89 we're gonna hit apply on that and so what this is telling us now is don't start throttling this card unless either we go over a hundred percent power draw or we reach eighty nine degrees Celsius which I don't think this card will ever hit now I'm gonna use heaven for this a lot of people is that why do you use heaven why do you use heaven yes it's a dx11 test yes it's really old but it's DX at 11 nonetheless which most games are still running and it's still a good loop to run to test temperatures and at least one level of stability you're never gonna find your max stable unless you run it in all your games or your favorite game or whatever and can get through a whole playing session without any sort of crashes you could find your stable in nine out of ten games but it's that one game and that one engine that's stupid picky when it comes to core clock that could suddenly start crashing on you so anyway what I tend to do here with heaven is I will set it to windowed mode we're running 1080p because they talked about this being the ultimate 1080p card anti-aliasing I'm gonna put that up to 8x because I want to stress the card as much as possible and to aliasing to is also gonna stress our frame buffer so we wanted to make sure that we r memory stable tessellation is on normal that's fine and then everything else we just have it altered DirectX 11 obviously and then preset custom because we change these settings and I guess at 1080 we're gonna go ahead and start up the benchmark we're gonna bring our overclocking window back to the foreground and we are going to just kind of see where our temperatures maximized with the stock fan curve and no sliders changed with the exception of our power limit and temperature target but these two things really aren't going to have any effect on our Max Weber clocks and stuff because you know obviously the temperature curve was what matters most now what you're gonna find here as you're doing this test is you're gonna find that these core clocks where's my cursor you can go back to it I'm not this face isn't yeah what you're gonna find right here is your frequency is going to slowly drop over time as this increases don't confuse that with thermal throttling thermal throttling is when the core starts to go below its rated speed whether it be the base clock or turbo clock to save itself from overheating that is different from a dynamically controlled frequency based on a temperature curve anything over one thousand seven hundred and seventy megahertz on a sixteen sixty Ti is considered a GPU boost 3.0 overclock so if you are running seventeen hundred and seventy one megahertz you're technically overclocking past the reference turbo clock scale on this card so now that we've found that we are maxed out at 59 60 C with the fan at 100 I always recommend maxing out the fan for air overclocking because obvious reasons if you care about volume then you shouldn't care about overclocking because you need the Headroom so we're gonna go ahead and now and just start with our core clock you can do memory and core clock together the problem is if you do you don't know exactly what caused your crash so if you're adjusting both of those at the same time and you crash well was it a memory or was it core so do one or the other very similar to CPU so we're gonna go ahead just do a plus 50 on that I've never found a card that couldn't do a plus 50 on an nvidia side so as you can see by doing plus 50 we went right to 1965 1950 you're gonna find two on NVIDIA cards especially the Turing cards and I think Pascal 2 this is gonna always change by 15 megahertz that's the stepping the stepping is always in 15 megahertz because anyone watching goes well my AMD yada-yada I can do it well because it's different core logic altogether so let's go ahead and try 65 now put us to 1980 as you can see because increase it 15 and what you can find is sometimes you'll be right on the edge where +70 would bring you up 15 so even though we only went +5 you can find that sometimes that will go up higher than 5 so let's try 75 right I just updated another 5 it still didn't change that means we're still within that 15 so let's go ahead and go 80 no change 90 there it is so that brought us up they see you went higher than 15 at that point because we increased it 15 from our original 75 right there but we got 30 the reason for that is because GP boost 3.0 there's various factors the temperature curve the actual voltage curve the actual power target the power limit and because that scene may not have been requiring as much power is able to go 2 steps rather than 1 so that's why the number you enter in on the core is not going to directly relate to the actual frequency change so that's why you have to play with it in increments because if you try and go plus 50 on everything you'll crash extremely early and you may not find where your stock or your stable clock is so let's just go ahead now and find where we sort of crash on our course shall we so let's go and try 120 so that put us up to 20 25 20 40 I suspect probably gonna start crashing here pretty soon yeah see I can't get 20 40 to go up from this point so afraid if I do 150 right now to probably spiked up and crash on us 20:55 so what worries me here is I've added 30 to this I've added 30 to this but and we're still sitting here so what that tells it is I want to put this back down to 120 if I turned on the system cold and fired up a game with the card sitting in the 30s it would go much higher than what you're actually seeing right now and then we'd probably end up eating a crash so what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna start playing with the memory and I bet you we can get a thousand out of this no problem whatsoever yep but look at our course be that dropped down slightly so right 7,000 plus 2010 we're kind of sitting our temperatures haven't changed so yeah what I want to do now because I know this graphics card was bouncing in the low $18 $18 Hertz makes it the world's best GPU your dollars so what I want to do right now is go ahead and run through all the benchmarks we did in our review with this overclock applied to see how much we gained I want to see how far close it gets to like the 20 60 and then obviously compared to the 10 70 again because I'm sure you guys saw in some of the tests this lost to or beat a 1070 and if you compare the launch pricing of a 1070 being 500 bucks and this card being 279 yeah we've come a long way in the last couple years in terms of graphics technology and although the pricing scale seems to be obviously sliding up at least you're getting something for your money so let's see how it compares so there's anything you've learned from today's video it's the fact that this video contains the most amount of wardrobe changes in any js2 sense video ever but more importantly when you overclock graphics cards they get faster thanks for watching today's video guys no seriously when you overclock the card if you have enough cooling Headroom like we've shown right here you can significantly improve improve the performance for free that's why we always recommend getting lower model cards that have decent coolers on them and overclocking them yourself I mean with the ACS Q's charging $5 per increment and having three different strict SKUs within $15 of each other just kind of makes no sense when you can move those sliders on your own but I digress as long as you have good enough coolers you can do it so I always recommend overclocking your graphics cards if you are comfortable doing it you can't really hurt it with msi afterburner you'll software crash long before you'll ever come anywhere near the limits of your hardware plus there are safeguards in place with the power limits and all that stuff so you're not gonna hurt anything worst case scenario if it crashes you just clear the profile and start over once again if the crash is bad enough but as you can see though I looking at the charts we push up against to like the gtx 1070 which was a significantly more expensive card at launch well over 5 or about 500 bucks and pushes up pretty close to the 20 60 at stock speeds yes you can oh look like a 20 60 I know but if you can get near 20 60 performance without the stuff you don't necessarily want to pay for like the RT cores in the 10th ER course then the 16 60 TI and overclocked is definitely a compelling choice so I just have to wait and see now what happens with the rumored 16 16 on Ti and the 1650 which would make this an even more cluttered product stack than it already is but hey options are good right all right guys I'm gonna go thanks for watching and as always we'll see you in the next one