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Nate152
Moderator
Hi everyone !

If you've recently purchased an ROG Strix GTX 1070 and are new to overclocking, here is a little guide that will have it running at it's maximum performance. You will need a gpu overclocking tool and GPU Tweak II is a good one to use, here is a link to get the latest version.

Select your operating system then click utilities, as of now v1.3.1.2 is the latest version.

http://support.asus.com.cn/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=9&m=GPUTweak+II&hashedid=n%2fa&_ga=1.2788006...

You will also need a gpu stress testing program and Unigine Valley I find is a good program to use, click the free download.

http://unigine.com/products/benchmarks/valley/

Overclocking your gpu can take a little time but to get your gpu overclocked quickly you can try my settings and see how they work for you. You'll have to enable the "Overclocking range enhancement" to get more out of the memory as it overclocks very far. To do this click the gear at the top right shown in red and check the box, also check "Apply settings each time GPU Tweak starts", this will keep your overclock settings and apply them when you start GPU Tweak. I disabled the GPU Tweak II Startup and Monitor Startup as it only needs to be running while playing games. Simply start GPU Tweak before playing any game.

Like this then click apply

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Now click Home at the top then click professional mode at the bottom right and it looks like this below. Slide the GPU Voltage all the way to the right until it shows 100 and slide the Power Target all the way to the right until it shows 120, under GPU Boost Clock select manual and slide it to +33MHZ until it shows 1868MHz, then slide the Memory Clock to +1334MHz until it shows 9342MHz and click apply. These settings are for the Strix 1070 OC, if you have the standard Strix 1070 you should be able to go a little higher with the GPU Boost Clock.



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To keep your Strix 1070 as cool as possible you'll want to set a fan curve, 70% is the highest it will go and I have mine set to be running at 70% at 60c. Under Fan Speed select "User Define" then click the little gear to the right and it shows this below. Move the little red boxes with your mouse to your desired temp and fan speed, 60 at the bottom is the temp and on the left is the fan speed 70%. Click save then click apply.

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Now open up the Unigine Valley GPU stress testing program, I set the resolution to 2560 x 1440, ultra settings with no antialiasing, then click Benchmark and let it run. If it crashes with the "Nvidia display driver has stopped responding", you'll need to back down the GPU Boost Clock a notch and run it until it passes, if you get artifacting (flashing dots and triangles) you'll have to back down the Memory Clock until the artifacting stops. Be sure to click apply if you make any changes.

The GPU Boost Clock doesn't stay at a constant overclock like previous gpu's, mine goes as low as 2000MHz and at times hits 2068MHz but stayed mainly at 2012MHz - 2038MHz, the Memory Clock does stay constant and runs at 9333MHz. Some gpu's may be able to overclock a little more and some a little less so don't be discouraged if you have to lower your overclock a little.

Here are the scores of the Strix 1070 in silent mode and overclocked with the settings above, the Strix 1070 in silent mode shows a max voltage of 1.062v and max temp of 67c. - 100 frames per second

Here is the link for the Tech PowerUp ROG GPU-Z if you'd like to install it, open it twice and click the sensors tab on one.

https://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2738/techpowerup-gpu-z-v1-9-0-w-asus-rog-skin

My 6700k is overclocked to 4.75GHz during the tests.
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Overclocked the max voltage shows 1.093v and max temp shows 71c but with the fan at 70% the max temp was 61c, cooler than in silent mode and scored 111.1 frames per second. A gain of 11 frames per second which is very nice but what is really impressive is the Min. FPS going from 30.5 to 48.5 for a gain of 18 FPS. What an awesome gpu the Strix 1070 is, it performs very good at 1440p runs cool and overclocks extremely well, especially the memory.

EDIT: For those of you with micron memory there is a vbios update that helps with micron memory overclocking stability, check in GPU-Z under memory type it will tell you if you have samsung or micron memory.

ROG Strix 1070 8G standard edition.

http://www.asus.com/us/Graphics-Cards/ROG-STRIX-GTX1070-8G-GAMING/HelpDesk_Download/

ROG Strix 1070 08G OC edition

http://www.asus.com/us/Graphics-Cards/ROG-STRIX-GTX1070-O8G-GAMING/HelpDesk_Download/

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I'd like to see how well you all did and compare so please post your scores and overclocks, if you have any questions feel free to ask.
1,038 Comments
MonkeyBoySte
Level 7
Relatively new to overclocking so thought I'd give it a go. My results seem pretty decent:

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Nate152
Moderator
Hi MonkeyBoySte

Welcome to the ROG forum !

That is an excellent overclock, you're only 2 FPS behind me with a 2500k. 🙂

Nice going !

Did you get your free year of Xsplit Gamecaster?
dgtots
Level 7
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Have not overclocked yet. Can not get it to benchmark in anything beside 1920X1080. I have a 1920 X1080 monitor so that may be the issue.
Nate152
Moderator
Hi dgtots

Yeah if your monitor is native 1080p that's what you'll have to run the benchmark at.

I have two scores for 1080p, one with the nvidia control panel set to performance, the other set to quality,

Quality settings

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Performance settings

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Syntraxx
Level 7
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Nate152
Moderator
Hi Syntraxx

Can you show us your GPU Tweak II settings so we can see your overclock too? That is if you have an ROG Strix 1070. 🙂

Thank you
Stewpot
Level 8
So I followed your guide, and settings and what not but unigine valley kept crashing even when I would put my clock speeds lower than OC Mode set by GPU tweak, it would still crash so not entirely sure why.

So I went on a mission for several hours after this to learn how to overclock my Strix OC edition.

Core Clock +100
+110 resulted in artifacting in Valley, +100 with 100% GPu voltage and 0% voltage resulted in no artifacting but +110 with 100% or 0% GPU voltage = artifacting.

Memory Clock +900
Heaven crashed after +910/920 (910 was either hit or miss for crash but 900 never did.

GPU voltage
+18%

3DMark kept crashing with anything less than 18%

After these settings were established, I ran some Realbench and other stress testers to ensure stability, looking good so far.

I guess my Strix isn't that great after seeing lots of other peoples overclocks.. Question is with the people and higher overclocks.. How are you not ghetting crashes/artifacting in these programs?

After several tweaking in Heaven, Valley, 3Dmark, Realbench and Cinebench to ensure stability of my card, these are my final settings. I'm curious how my 1070 compared to you guys at your most stable overclock.

NOTE: I did test at 1080p to compare with others but 1st monitor is 1440p so will do a native test.

GPU Tweak II Settings for my max stable OC
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Valley results (I lost all my other benchmark jpegs, must've deleted them before I went to bed)
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1440p results are quite shocking, despite setting Nvidia to use max power, Optimal resulted in 2 more average FPS than maximum power.

So, my 1440p test results with Nvidia Control power management mode set to: Optimal Power
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and lastly Nvidia Control power management mode set to: prefer maximum power
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EDIT: Sorry idk how to get rid of the "imagenes adjuntas" image
SimDuch
Level 10
Hi people ! after a few weeks of testing, I cant get better than 15500 point at 3dMark, my Strix 1070 uses the latest bios (micron fix) and my mem is at +1000 but the score at 3dmark wont change a bit, sometimes, it will be lower... am I getting limited by my 4770K @ 4.3 ghz ? graphics score is between 18000 and 20000 (firestike) upon different OC profile under GPU Tweak II !!!

I see people all around with overall scores of 17 000 + at the same bench (Firestrike default)

any clues ?

Cheers

S.
Nate152
Moderator
Stewpot wrote:
So I followed your guide, and settings and what not but unigine valley kept crashing even when I would put my clock speeds lower than OC Mode set by GPU tweak, it would still crash so not entirely sure why.

So I went on a mission for several hours after this to learn how to overclock my Strix OC edition.

Core Clock +100
+110 resulted in artifacting in Valley, +100 with 100% GPu voltage and 0% voltage resulted in no artifacting but +110 with 100% or 0% GPU voltage = artifacting.

Memory Clock +900
Heaven crashed after +910/920 (910 was either hit or miss for crash but 900 never did.

GPU voltage
+18%

3DMark kept crashing with anything less than 18%

After these settings were established, I ran some Realbench and other stress testers to ensure stability, looking good so far.

I guess my Strix isn't that great after seeing lots of other peoples overclocks.. Question is with the people and higher overclocks.. How are you not ghetting crashes/artifacting in these programs?

After several tweaking in Heaven, Valley, 3Dmark, Realbench and Cinebench to ensure stability of my card, these are my final settings. I'm curious how my 1070 compared to you guys at your most stable overclock.

NOTE: I did test at 1080p to compare with others but 1st monitor is 1440p so will do a native test.

GPU Tweak II Settings for my max stable OC
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Valley results (I lost all my other benchmark jpegs, must've deleted them before I went to bed)
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1440p results are quite shocking, despite setting Nvidia to use max power, Optimal resulted in 2 more average FPS than maximum power.

So, my 1440p test results with Nvidia Control power management mode set to: Optimal Power
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and lastly Nvidia Control power management mode set to: prefer maximum power
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EDIT: Sorry idk how to get rid of the "imagenes adjuntas" image



HI Stewpot,

Install CPU-Z and check under memory type to see if you have samsung or micron memory. If you have micron memory got to the Asus Support Center and install the latest vbios update, this should allow you to overclock the memory further.

Overclocking your cpu will also give you a better score.

To get rid of the screenshot you don't want click "edit post", then click "Go Advanced", then scroll down to "Manage Attachments", here you will have the option to delete any screenshot/picture.
Nate152
Moderator
SimDuch wrote:
Hi people ! after a few weeks of testing, I cant get better than 15500 point at 3dMark, my Strix 1070 uses the latest bios (micron fix) and my mem is at +1000 but the score at 3dmark wont change a bit, sometimes, it will be lower... am I getting limited by my 4770K @ 4.3 ghz ? graphics score is between 18000 and 20000 (firestike) upon different OC profile under GPU Tweak II !!!

I see people all around with overall scores of 17 000 + at the same bench (Firestrike default)

any clues ?

Cheers

S.


Hi SimDuch

Please run the Unigine Valley Benchmark at 1080p, ultra settings with antialiasing turned off, this will give us a better idea where you stand with your overclock.

This is what I get at 1080p with the nvidia control panel set to quality.

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