can you overclock a gpu on any motherboard

But other brand GPUs would die sporadically every few months. Not sure if it's because they all have a back plate. Over the years, I've moved everything (EVGA, ASUS, MSI, Zotac) all to Gigabyte. I run Gigabyte Windforce (3 FAN) GPUs (300W max). I power limit + overclock all of my cards for a boost in efficiency and minimal performance hit.

what model do you have that is 300W?Īdditionally, you can regain some lost performance from power limiting by just adding an overclock. Any card that fails from this kind of operation was defective and would have failed anyway.Ģ080ti default power limit is usually around 250W. I have my cards like this for over a year at this point. Some of the lower end cards like 1050 or 1050ti don’t have this restriction for some reason either. You can overclock further of course but I don’t. Nvidia doesn’t impose this restriction on their Quadro line cards. It’s not any more stressful than playing games would be. Adding an “overclock” to this level isn’t really an overclock in my eyes, just putting back what Nvidia took away. So a stock non-overclocked 1080ti for example will run P0 in games (11,000MHz effective), but be stuck on P2 for compute (10,000MHz effective). This started around the Maxwell generation I think. But they allow full clock speed on gaming loads. Nvidia artificially limits their consumer line cards memory clocks to P2 when under compute loads. The memory overclock just puts them back to the P0 clocks.

The core overclock just brings the clocks back to where they would be without the power limit.

Can you overclock a gpu on any motherboard