How to increase Hashrate MSI GTX 1660 super ventus xs oc mining: Overclocking | Memory

How to ‘increase/ Max/ Boost/ Optimize/ Tune’ Hashrate MSI GTX 1660 super ventus xs oc mining – Many people reading this article may not understand what overclocking is.

Previously, overclocking was a terrible and unknown thing, because it was done through the BIOS, which was incomprehensible to most users. But now everything is done quite simply, through various programs with an intuitive and friendly interface

What is overclocking for?

According to Wikipedia Computer overclocking, overclocking (English – overclocking) is the process of increasing the clock frequency (and voltage) of a computer component above normal modes in order to increase its speed. The ultimate goal of overclocking is to improve hardware performance. And it’s generally true, but overclocking has side effects in the form of fan noise, elevated temperatures, and the risk of burning iron in the hands of a stupid person, but I’m sure that you will succeed.

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Considering today’s realities and prices, many do not have enough for flagship video cards to play modern games at good graphics settings, because good cards sometimes cost several hundred thousand, so it would not be out of place to get additional performance out of thin air (literally and figuratively). sense).

Let’s start with the fact that for overclocking you need to have a good power supply with a margin of at least 150 – 200 watts and a well-ventilated case, where there will be no troubles with cooling. Our video card model is well suited for overclocking, as it has a rather massive heatsink, a copper heat pipe and 2 powerful fans. I would like to note that not all memory chips are covered by a radiator, so the video memory should not be overclocked too much (shown in the picture).

GPU overclocking

You need to start with the fact that the card is slightly overclocked from the factory by 50 megahertz on the video chip (there is an OC prefix in the name, which means OverClocked), so we will not raise super high numbers. I must say right away that sometimes the cards may differ, so the values ​​u200bu200bin overclocking for me and for you may have differences. Let’s start with the theory of overclocking on video cards.

The frequencies usually need to be raised in the MSI Afterburner program, the program is free and you can easily find it on the Internet. We will also need OCCT. It’s also free. This is a utility that can load your hardware to the maximum, we need it in order to see how the video card behaves during overclocking (you can test not only video cards).

When all programs are downloaded, you can start. We immediately set +50 megahertz on the GPU, save, go and run the OCCT test, preferably for a long time, at least 30 minutes, since problems may not come out immediately, but after a long time, for example, I got errors at a high frequency already after 40 minutes of the test, so be careful. If there are no artifacts on the monitor, overheating (the critical temperature for our card is 85 degrees), OCCT errors, then add another 50 megahertz until one of the above problems appears.

When these problems appeared, we return the parameters to the previous successful value and set an intermediate value, for example, if the successful one was +100 megahertz, and the unsuccessful one was +150 megahertz, then we try to set +125 megahertz and so on.

Video memory overclocking.

In fact, everything is similar to overclocking a GPU, but as mentioned at the beginning, you shouldn’t overclock the video memory much (do not raise it above +1000 megahertz), otherwise the memory chips may simply burn out and have to be replaced. This is as bad as possible due to the fact that in the current situation in the service center you are most likely to be supplied with already faulty chips, in other words, to deceive you. Personally, I set + 800 MHz for video memory and have no problems. Now you can take a look at the frequencies that I raised

Results.

I really hope that everything worked out for everyone, and everyone was satisfied with the result, I personally had an increase in various games of about 10 – 15 percent, despite the fact that, surprisingly, the temperatures almost did not rise (by a maximum of 3 – 4 degrees). Thanks for reading. Forced to say goodby