I've started getting into overclocking over the last few days using Afterburner, but I tried mVolt last night and immediately started setting world records in several 3dMark benchmarks for my CPU+GPU combination.
The Speed Way score was attained using +400MHz XBAR, +3000MHz memory clock, and I'll include an image of my V/F curve. The Steel Nomad score was attained using +550MHz XBAR with the same Afterburner profile.
I just passed an OCCT stability test using the same Afterburner profile with +300 XBAR; will probably try the same with +400MHz soon. I was able to play a few minutes of CP2077 at +400MHz XBAR + Afterburner without issue, but obviously that needs further testing.
I have some questions for the members of this community with more specialised knowledge than myself:
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Is there much data on the long-term safety of XBAR overclocking? What specifically is it doing? I noticed I was beating world records in these benchmarks with lower average core clock speeds than the runner ups; I'm assuming there aren't too many people in these data sets who have tried tweaking this setting at this time. Basically, I want to know how liberally I should game with these settings. I haven't touched the power/voltage settings in mVolt at this point because I haven't learned enough about my card's limits to feel comfortable in doing so, though I did max out the power limit and core voltage in Afterburner (116% and +100%, respectively) because I haven't done anything to unlock the vbios power limits.
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Has anyone vetted mVolt's source code for malware? Is it open source? How well known is the author of this project? It'd be quite annoying to have to reinstall my OS if at some point in the future if I learn this project contains malware, but I suppose those risks come with the territory of running Github projects on my machine.
Thanks everyone!
Speed Way: http://www.3dmark.com/sw/3840371
Steel Nomad: http://www.3dmark.com/sn/15832181