Strix GTX 1070 Overclocking Guide

[Nate152]

Hey,
I've been getting some artifacting and a lot of D3D crashing lately. Sadly I think it's my 1070 O8G's Memory that could be dying..
Have you got some GPU Tweak settings that are relatively stable? it has the Micron memory.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Malte



EDIT: for others who have the same problem, i will be testing over the next weeks how it goes but its much more stable now. Literally turn all settings down.

Boost Clock: 1744
Memory Clock: 7958
Power Target: 90

ASUS released a bios that increases Micron memory stability, you could run the bios installer to see you have this version (1.02).

Select your operating system then scroll down to BIOS - UTILITIES

https://www.asus.com/us/Graphics-Car...Desk_Download/

If you do have the latest bios version and still have to downclock below factory specs, this should warrant an RMA. ASUS has a 3 year warranty on their gpu's, purchase date will determine if you're eligible for an RMA.

Let's see first if you have bios 1.02 installed and if things improve.

When doing your testing, open GPU Tweak II with the monitoring. Run a test then take a screenshot of GPU Tweak II, post it here so we can take a look.

Thank you.

[Nate152]

has anybody tried to flash O8G bios on a 8G model ? did not find new threads , either very high fail rate or am just failing the interwebz search
got a micron mem 1070 8G latest bios
Card doesnt seem to go above 2025 gpu and 350 mem
higher than 2025 is throtling and higher than +350 on mem crash or freeze or artifact in some games ( thats 8700 efective with msi afterburner ) i know i should mabe using asus's app but had a few bad issues with it and stoped using it .

Hi Ghostmk

Two things will cause your ROG Strix 1070 to throttle, either temps are too high or you're hitting the power limit. With the Strix cooler I highly doubt temps are a problem, to combat the power limit you could try overclocking with no voltage increase and power limit to 112%.

Flashing the OBG bios to your BG gpu is risky and could turn your gpu into a brick rendering it useless, and I won't recommend it because of this. I'm not saying it can't be done, I personally never tried it and the risk to reward likely isn't worth it.

What you have isn't the worst overclock, try with 0 voltage and 112% power limit to see if there is an improvement in the core clock.

[Ghostmk]

i will try with 0 voltage increase, my temps never go above 63C thats with a fan curve , but i'v also tried it with 100% fans all the time and the temperature is even lower than that and still same issue occurs

[Nate152]

Temps are superb, let's see what happens with no voltage increase.

[Malte Spielt]

ASUS released a bios that increases Micron memory stability, you could run the bios installer to see you have this version (1.02).

Select your operating system then scroll down to BIOS - UTILITIES

https://www.asus.com/us/Graphics-Car...Desk_Download/

If you do have the latest bios version and still have to downclock below factory specs, this should warrant an RMA. ASUS has a 3 year warranty on their gpu's, purchase date will determine if you're eligible for an RMA.

Let's see first if you have bios 1.02 installed and if things improve.

When doing your testing, open GPU Tweak II with the monitoring. Run a test then take a screenshot of GPU Tweak II, post it here so we can take a look.

Thank you.

Hey,
Will try the bios fix. Sadly the card started artefacting 1 month after the 3 year warranty ran out. I have already contacted Asus but they just told me to "buy a new GPU" and that they cant do anything when its out of warranty.

No 3080s available in Germany sadly, so i'm hoping the card will last until some are available. Getting pretty desperate though

Thanks for your help, will reply when testing is done.

[Nate152]

You're welcome

Yeah, the Nvidia 3000 gpu's are hard to come by here in the u.s. too, AMD isn't doing any better with their stock either. Let's hope after the 1st of the year stock gets better.

I'm looking forward to your test results.

[gorandroid]

ASUS released a bios that increases Micron memory stability, you could run the bios installer to see you have this version (1.02).

Select your operating system then scroll down to BIOS - UTILITIES

https://www.asus.com/us/Graphics-Car...Desk_Download/

If you do have the latest bios version and still have to downclock below factory specs, this should warrant an RMA. ASUS has a 3 year warranty on their gpu's, purchase date will determine if you're eligible for an RMA.

Let's see first if you have bios 1.02 installed and if things improve.

When doing your testing, open GPU Tweak II with the monitoring. Run a test then take a screenshot of GPU Tweak II, post it here so we can take a look.

Thank you.

WHat update you talking about? It says that it's from 2016 v1.02? It's not from 2020 ?

[gorandroid]

i tried your settings and my gpu goes to like 65 degrees and it crashes, i decreased gpu speed by 2 notches and still crashing in valley, tell me one: do i only need to decrease the gpu boost clock and leave everything else like you wrote on OP ? I don't need to touch other stuff? ty

[Nate152]

Sorry for the late reply.

The update is for Strix 1070's with Micron memory, it helps with Micron memory stability and overclocking. All later ROG Strix 1070's should have the latest Vbios update. You can run the update to be sure, if you have the latest update it will tell you, you don't need to update.

If you're having issues with overclocking, reset to defaults and start over with overclocking the Boost Clock first. Once you find the maximum Boost Clock then move on to overclocking the memory.

You can let the voltage at 0% to help combat the power limit and set the power target to the maximum.

65c is a nice temp, no issue there.

If you can post us a screenshot of GPU Teak II with your overclock, that would be great !