Higher core clock or mem clock for 660 ti?
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Josh Weston
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Core clock, by some considerable margin.
Find the highest you can go on your core, then work on your memory.
Find the highest you can go on your core, then work on your memory.
Scoob
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As Josh says, Core all the way. A vRam clock speed increase can improve certain very specific scenarios, say for example one of Vantages "features" tests might be 2% better with a 50mhz vRam boost. But in REAL terms it's core all the way in my experience. So much so, I haven't bothered to overclock vRam since my old BFG 6800 graphics card 
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Scoob
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Really? I've OC'd the ram on my 570's and it made no difference in-game, I did the same for my older GTX 275, again no difference. We also did the same with my friends 480's - no difference. This is why, while I DO have profiles with the Core overclocked, I don't for the vram.
Possibly certain titles benefit, the ones I'm playing do not however.
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Yeah I got bugger all benefit for my 580 because nvidia had an adequate memory bus on it
The the higher end 600 series show decent improvements from memory overclocking
Really? I overclocked my 670s Memory clock by 554MHz, and it made a 2 fps difference in BF3. Seems as pitiful as usual to me.
Scoob
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Also, a 100mhz vRam OC on a 384bit memory bus (like wot my 570's are) is going to be worth 50% more bandwidth than the same on a 256bit bus... in theory. Real world doesn't realise this though, but specific bench marks can give you that feel good factor from a vRam OC.
As an aside, when I've played with system Ram overclocking in the past, I've noticed certain benchmarks LOVING it. I.e. 5% on ram = 5% boost in certain (very specific) bench marks. Given that some of these benchmarks are in-game ones, you'd expect maybe something during gameplay but I've not seen it myself. Again, I play limited titles so possibly some thrive on it.
@Drakkonen: Ok, you've sold me, that 2fps is SOOO worth it
Scoob.
As an aside, when I've played with system Ram overclocking in the past, I've noticed certain benchmarks LOVING it. I.e. 5% on ram = 5% boost in certain (very specific) bench marks. Given that some of these benchmarks are in-game ones, you'd expect maybe something during gameplay but I've not seen it myself. Again, I play limited titles so possibly some thrive on it.
@Drakkonen: Ok, you've sold me, that 2fps is SOOO worth it
Scoob.
NRG!
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1080p I guess?
Makes a decent difference @ 5970x1080, keeps mins higher.
For a 660ti with it's entry-level memory bus it should help with AA @ 1080p
It was 1920x1200, which sometimes manages to use up about 1.8GB of VRAM according to afterburner, so I was expecting a little more out of the memory overclock than what I got. My only point was that it doesn't (In my experience) seem to make any more difference than it did with the previous generation in real world tests.
