So, I legit just spent the last 5 hours doing nothing but tinkering. I have the XFX QICK 319, 7700 XT.
I was bored and wanted to see what I could squeeze out of it. (My imagination wanted to chase a world record). And for being air cooled, im beyond happy with this result! Top 3% of total benchmarks with this card (Steel Nomad 3DMark). I wish there was a way to filter air cooled vs liquid cooled on the leaderboard…. I feel like some of these people are using liquid nitrogen or something absolutely crazy.
My favorite part is tonight was the perfect night for me to try it. Its -8°f outside with a windchill of -20°f. Soooo even with my heat on, my house is only 60ish degrees. Probably even colder where the pc actually sits.
Settings:
GPU Clock
Min Frequency: 500 MHz
Max Frequency: 3300 MHz
Voltage: 920 mV
VRAM: 2312 MHz (Fast Timings)
Power Limit: +15%
Fan Curve: 100% after 55°C and Zero RPM disabled
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I attached a picture of the verified results and of my pc with the side panel off🤣
Im more than willing to show anything else too if someone doesn't believe me or something. Its absolutely not the most stable thing in the world.. but I ran the benchmark 3 times in a row without crashing.
Set to maximum of 3300mhz im only actually getting a boost to about 2850mhz. And 2312 was the highest I could go with fast timings enabled before I got crashes. I have yet to try to go higher but with fast timings disabled. Thats my next test.
I backed it off a little bit for actual gaming and it still holds up. Though I'll need longer gaming sessions to fully test it.
Thanks for reading! Im just real proud of myself, this is my first time really going sweaty try hard mode on an overclock.
Edit: I have an AIO on my CPU.. does that nullify it as an aircooled result? The gpu was 100% cooled by its fans and ambient air..