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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
cepheus74
Level 7
GPU Clock: +220
GPU Voltage: +50
Memory Clock: +1086
Power Target: +112 (will not go higher)
Temperature: 64C under load
Fan: 70% at 60C - stock fan

My question is, how do I know when I need to increase my Voltage, the guide says max it out, but having it lower will be better for the card, right?

Also should I add AIO to keep temps lower, especially if I want to OC further, that is if its possible? LOL!

Thanks.
Nate152
Moderator
Hi cepheus74

Welcome to the ROG forum !

+112% power target means you have the Strix 1070 8G (non OC version).

Increasing the voltage to 100% gives you another 0.030v, this shouldn't affect temps much and is safe. Nvidia has the voltage capped at 1.093v so it won't go any higher than this.

The Strix gpu's have one of the best coolers on the market, it's not necessary to liquid cool your Strix 1070.

Are you stable in games? It looks like you have a very good overclocking Strix 1070, can you post us a screenshot of GPU Tweak II?

Thank you
cepheus74
Level 7
Nate152 wrote:
Hi cepheus74

Welcome to the ROG forum !

+112% power target means you have the Strix 1070 8G (non OC version).

Increasing the voltage to 100% gives you another 0.030v, this shouldn't affect temps much and is safe. Nvidia has the voltage capped at 1.093v so it won't go any higher than this.

The Strix gpu's have one of the best coolers on the market, it's not necessary to liquid cool your Strix 1070.

Are you stable in games? It looks like you have a very good overclocking Strix 1070, can you post us a screenshot of GPU Tweak II?

Thank you


Thank you.

Here is my tweak output, I increased things a little...
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Nate152
Moderator
Thank you and Wow !

Congratulations, you got one of the best overclocking Strix 1070's you can get.

If your games are stable, you can call it good there.

Temp looks good at 65c.

Very very nice, this is what we like to see ! 🙂
Nate152
Moderator
As of now the latest Nvidia driver is 416.34

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/138697/en-us

GPU Tweak II version 1.8.3.5 has the option for On Screen Display to see readings while playing games.This is a beta and just a taste of what's to come, the GPU Tweak II team is working on additions and improvements. I'm looking forward to the next one.

Scroll down to the first .zip file in white.

https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?103504-GPU-Tweak-II-Beta-Testing-Program

You can show your overclocks in games with the OSD if you want. Record with shadowplay, upload it to you tube then post it here. If you don't have a Youtube account you can make one for free. Or a screenshot of GPU Tweak II is fine.

I added the ROG Logo and "The Choice of Champions"

HeroVIII
Level 7
Hello Nate152, thanks for your tutorial, it has been very helpful.
I had a Gigabyte 970 G1 Gaming that has given the relief to my new Asus Strix 1070 Ti Advanced to be able to move content to 4K HDR in better shape, and reading many reviews almost all arrive at the same conclusion ... which has very overclock among others good features of this spectacular Graphics Card. I had never inquired into this question and I have to say that thanks to your tutorial I have been very satisfied, I only have a few questions:

If I leave the factory fans and I do not make the profile, there are risks that the components suffer. For me they make noise that at night with low volume is a bit annoying and they interrupt the listening of a game at low volume.
Instead of leaving the fans at 70% at 60º I leave it at 65º can errors arise or damage components?
I dare not try for myself ...


Here I leave the result of my configuration and results with Unigine Valley:
This is a result of Stock:

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Here the configuration and the result with Overclock:

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This other capture was to try to get a little closer to your configuration, but the result was still the same, so I left it with the adjustment I did at the beginning.

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In real games I have only tried the Gears Of War 4 to 4K without Antialiasing, and in the Benchmark there is an improvement of 7 to 8 Fps.
In the start menu step from 42 to 49 stable Fps, the image looks smooth.

Thanks for everything.

Greetings.
Nate152
Moderator
Hi HeroVII

65c is perfectly fine, when temps get too high GPU Boost 3.0 will throttle the gpu voltage and clock speed to protect itself.

Your overclock looks good.

Max GPU Boost clock - 2068MHz
Max Memory Clock - 9356MHz
Max temp - 65c

At 1440p you can expect about a 10 FPS gain overclocking the Strix 1070, a 7-8 FPS gain at 4k is very good.

Thank you for sharing your overclock.
HeroVIII
Level 7
Nate152 wrote:

Hi HeroVII

65c is perfectly fine, when temps get too high GPU Boost 3.0 will throttle the gpu voltage and clock speed to protect itself.

Your overclock looks good.

Max GPU Boost clock - 2068MHz
Max Memory Clock - 9356MHz
Max temp - 65c

At 1440p you can expect about a 10 FPS gain overclocking the Strix 1070, a 7-8 FPS gain at 4k is very good.

Thank you for sharing your overclock.


Here I also leave my results at 2560x1440,

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Here the configuration that I left with the fans a little quieter and just as effective in that small range keeping the graphics card at 65º with an ambient temperature of 25º.

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Does something fail or is everything controlled?

Regards.
HeroVIII
Level 7
Nate152 wrote:
Hi HeroVII

65c is perfectly fine, when temps get too high GPU Boost 3.0 will throttle the gpu voltage and clock speed to protect itself.

Your overclock looks good.

Max GPU Boost clock - 2068MHz
Max Memory Clock - 9356MHz
Max temp - 65c

At 1440p you can expect about a 10 FPS gain overclocking the Strix 1070, a 7-8 FPS gain at 4k is very good.

Thank you for sharing your overclock.


Nate152, what do you think about setting the Memory Clock, lower and not to exceed 110% of the Power Target ?, as shown here, for example:

https://www.overclockersclub.com/guides/gtx_1070ti_oc_guide/2.htm

You told me that my overclock is good but what interests me most is knowing that my components are safe.
Thanks for your answers.
Nate152
Moderator
The Maximum temperature for the 1070 Ti is 94c but at that temp you will be severely thermal throttling.

The Strix gpu's have one of if not the best coolers, as long as you stay below 70c it should hold the clock speed and not thermal throttle.

If you have good air flow inside your case, your other components will be fine too.

If you hit the power target this will also thottle your gpu so I recommend keeping it at 120%.

Looking at your fan curve, your fan looks to be running full throttle at 70c, to keep maximum clock speeds this is how you should have it set.

For maximum gaming performance keep the memory overclocked as far as it will go, as long as it's not artifacting or crashing it's perfectly fine.