My settings right now but some reason the top numbers do not change but the bottom ones do.

Unlock voltage monitoring, force constant voltage, and crank that baby up.

won't it blow my gfx card up? lol

Pretty sure you throttle pretty quickly with 79d.

Whats your tempeture when stress testing?

Dont foruce constant voltage, Its pretty pointless for 9xx series & would just lead to extra power/Heat at idle.

Should I do voltage myself? if so what should I set it to so it has really good power but doesn't break my card over time.

http://i.imgur.com/WTbNC96.jpg

This post was edited by M4A4 on Oct 9 2016 11:21pm

Crank voltage and power limit all the way, it's limited to a safe level by the card's BIOS. You can hit as high as 1650 Mhz if you're really lucky but that would likely need a custom BIOS. My STRIX 970 only hits 1443 MHz, 1500 is pretty decent, 1550+ is dank. You can also overclock the memory by up to 500Mhz, it's Samsung memory and 970s can pretty much all handle it

Don't use Furmark, it's BS and way harder on the card than any game will ever be. It throttles my card and nothing else ever has, it's pointless

I recommend stress testing with Unigine Valley and then playing games and just lower your OC a bit if you're crashing in games

If you really want to get the most out of your card, custom BIOS is the way to go. You can disable NVidia Boost, raise the power limit to 150watts per 8 pin + 75 for the pci slot, raise the voltage a bit, set your memory overclock, custom fan curves and not have to open afterburner every time you game. I can let you know more about getting into this if you're interested, it's really easy to do.

This post was edited by BluntsGLI on Oct 10 2016 12:01am

can't seem to get it to work without benchmark to crash

i did get it to 1.7 mhz lol

honestly why even oc
the gains are so minimal, do you even need em?

free 5% to 20% performance
brings up minimal frames

This post was edited by yupitsmeh on Oct 10 2016 07:00am