There seems to be people benefiting from undervolting as it decreases the temps and therefore lets the core boost to a higher clock, then again overvolting seems to be better for others as it increases the amount of power the core can draw in oder to boost its frequencies. Again, I wasn't able to find anything that I actually understand when doing my research. Since the whole voltage-thing still is quite blurry to me anyway, I am now looking for advice. This makes me think that locking my GPU voltage had no effect or at least doesn't let the GPU reach a higher level of performance now. If it would show these reasons againВ that'd make sense to me, but 'Idle'?. What made me curious is the fact that despite a higher core clock there seems to be no improvement in performance, no increase in temperature and what makes me wonder the most is that GPU-Z now only shows 'Idle' as the PerfCap Reason when it had shown 'Pwr' and/or 'vRel' before. I haven't tested higher boosts yet as I am unsure if they currently have any effect at all and if they might cause issues when unlocking the voltage again. Any other boost has given me 22 Min FPS again. At a +140 MHz I had a Min FPS of 33 instead of the normal 22, so I assume that this is a core clock at which games perform a little more stable, I am yet to test in an actual game though. Temps stick to a maximum of 79c even with +160 MHz core clock, however Valley benchmark scoresВ don't improve beyond the margin of error. However, I can boost the core clock far higher than before it seems. When increasing the memory clock to 650 MHz I am beginning to see 'stars' when running Valley, so I am sticking to 620 MHz. I have then set Temp and Power limits to their max values (92cВ and 112%). I have locked my GPU to a constant voltage of 1000 mV (which is lower than what it would usually reach). This can cause a number of performance issues. The problem is that game do not have a consistent workload, causing the Voltage and Frequency to jump around very quickly. I can post a link if that's okay, but basically what he says isДЄs more demand is placed on the GPU, it will dynamically increase Voltage and Frequency. I've found a guide that recommended to first set a fix voltage. From what I have read there is a hard limit set by Nvidia, but there still seems to be some potential that I could use. Now I was curious about what else I can do if I adjust the GPU voltage. My GPU has so far been running at a stable +130 MHz Core Clock and +620 MHz Memory Clock. My CPU is running at a stable 3900 MHz with a voltage of 1.375, tested with Ryzen Master and made permanent through my BIOS.

If you need more info regarding my overclocks, please let me know. For more information regarding my specs, please see my signature. I have OC'd both my CPU (AMD Ryzen 5 1600x) and my GPU (Gainward GTX 1070) and I'm also running a Memory Try It! preset for my RAM. However, now I apparently have run into something where I can't find an answer that I understand. I generally tend to inform myself as much as possible and I am quite careful so I don't take unnecessary risks. I am currently fiddling around with overclocking my hardware for the first time, so I am a bit of a newbie.

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