msi afterburner or evga precision x 2015

While the games were also benchmarked at 4K we do of course know that the card will struggle there. The ACX 2.0+ with it’s default fan profile was also able to keep the card virtually silent (<1200RPM) even when loaded for hours when overclocked and overvolted. Despite the extra power of the overclock, the higher power limit on this version of the card (160W) meant that we were never even close to power throttling. We had issues with MSI’s afterburner for overclocking on this card so we would definitely recommend Precision X instead. We also ran the 1080p tests with an overclock on the GPUto 1498MHz and 8200MT/s on the memory – this was achieved using EVGA Precision X and a voltage bump.

The 960 typically ran 1380-1390MHz on average. In our testing however the card boosted higher still. While the reference GTX 960 has a boost clock of 1178MHz EVGA have increased the stock clocks of the SuperSC up to 1342MHz. Windows 8.1 was used as well as the 355.82 WHQL drivers. Bear in mind that poorly threaded games that do not utilize multiple cores well may not read 100% across all cores despite effectively throttling.

Despite the high cpu overclock there may be occasions at 1080p where the CPU may limit performance and so we show total CPU load also. We will be running tests both at 1920 x 1080 (1080p) & 3840 x 2160 (UHD or 4k) using a Dell P2715Q monitor. Storage is provided by a 960GB Crucial M500 SSD. Memory is 2x4GB of Corsair Dominator GT running at 2133 CL9. For our setup we used Asus’s Maximus VI Impact board along with Intel’s flagship CPU, the 4790k is watercooled inside a CaseLabs S3 with an decent overclock of 4.8GHz.

Msi afterburner or evga precision x 2015