GPU Overclocking Tips?

[sam_86314]

So I'm new to overclocking GPUs. A few days ago, I got a Gigabyte GTX 1070 from a friend. It has some decent overclocking headroom, so I looked up a review for the card and copied their overclock settings.

Voltage: +100%
Power Limit: +111%
Core: +114MHz
Memory: +650MHz

The card stays below 70C with these settings while gaming.

Can anyone who is more experienced with overclocking than I am tell me how these settings are? Is there anything I should change?

 

[sneekypeet]

Each card will offer more/less performance than others. All you can do is try to add more core or memory clocks, test, rinse and repeat until you find it is unstable or errors out in the test. I suggest loops of Heaven for GPU stability testing with the settings maxed out.

You could be at the upper level of what that card has, but you wont know without some time in trial and error testing.

 

[DRDNA]

I would say first off why bother clocking that card at all out side of bench tests as if it is powering either of the monitors in your system specks then no over clock at all would be needed for I would chance at saying any game, but if you are having issues then mention them and we can see whats up. Nice card you have there by the way.
But as for clocking them 1000 series GTX cards...well with After burner there is another option to lock in on certian Bins on the GPU here are some screenies

it will open this window

here you can click on any of the white box which are the Bins and move them up for higher clocks if your cards deems them stable you use the L key on your key board to lock into the bin selected to save....then you go back to the original Afterburner window and click the apply check mark button which will lock your card to that bin as long as the gpu stays cool enough. This kind of clocking is normally for benching and the front face clocking in afterburner is more for gaming if needed. PS the area of the Bin i locked in for the screen shot will be around the area of bins you will be working with unless some super cooling method is used as these bins are dictated by the temperature of the gpu. If you use dual monitors you can open that graph window with the bins while gaming or benching and see where your used bins are usually hanging out and thoughs bins will be the ones you raise until well you cant because of not being stable. Good luck.