07-03-2015, 05:29 PM
(shrugs)
My old GPUs end up with friends, I'd have a hard time taking money for something ran far out of spec. (and you're the one who noted "The most important thing is the power limit. Just pushing it up should hold your boost in all your games.")
I'm not as against OCing at OEM power, but it has always been my position you can run GPUs out of spec for a little gain, or do SLi for a lot. NVIDIA has had hardware and software for frame pacing for a long time now, and FCAT shows they're pretty good at limiting stutter and normalizing frame times.
http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/gef...iew,9.html
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gef...ew,18.html
But look at the 41% increase at 4K in the Metro game your linked benches referred to- you'd never get close to that at any safe OC.
My old GPUs end up with friends, I'd have a hard time taking money for something ran far out of spec. (and you're the one who noted "The most important thing is the power limit. Just pushing it up should hold your boost in all your games.")
I'm not as against OCing at OEM power, but it has always been my position you can run GPUs out of spec for a little gain, or do SLi for a lot. NVIDIA has had hardware and software for frame pacing for a long time now, and FCAT shows they're pretty good at limiting stutter and normalizing frame times.
http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/gef...iew,9.html
Quote:SLI card performance wise there are no stutters (spikes in the chart) recorded, BUT there is good and bad news, the bad news is that you can see a lot of framedrops. This issue continued persistently through all FCAT results. We are still investigating what is going on there as we are seeing the same with the 970 in SLI. Again these are not stutters, frame-drops at 6 to 8 ms like these can not be seen with your eyes unless is is a repetitive lasting sequence (that's the good news).
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gef...ew,18.html
But look at the 41% increase at 4K in the Metro game your linked benches referred to- you'd never get close to that at any safe OC.