Gigabyte GTX 1080TI Gaming OC 11GB Overclock Guide

jdcchora1533 · Nov 6, 2018

Hello I do overclock guides in another forums and today I will guide you to do one of the best overclocks in this GPU.

Avoid stupid ideas or questions and follow this steps if you want to get better performance in your gigabyte gaming oc 11gb.

Main ideas:

1 - The bests overclocks have always watercooling. This is a guide with watercooling.

2 - The best overclock is not the higher clock that your card can get without crashing. Its the clock that give you the best performance in a benchmark test.

3 - Don't flash a different BIOS in your videocard.

The components that we will use are:

- Motherboard MSI Z270I Gaming Pro;
- Gigabyte 1080 TI Gaming OC 11GB;
- Kraken G12;
- Kraken X62;
- Coolermaster Masterbox Q300L.

To start, as you know, this gpu have worse benchmarks than 1080TI from evga, zotac and msi.

Dissassembly the original cooler and the fans:

After the cooler have been removed, I used heatsinks to cover the different chips and vrams:

Then, I buy a Kraken G12 mount and, after a long analysis, I found that the best option value/performance/noise was the Kraken X62.

This is the final result:

After the hardware have been selected and mounted I started the software part.

You need to install the nztx software to control ONLY the fans.

For the overclock, you will use the msi afterburner and this are the clocks that I used:

Of course I could use higher clocks BUT it will not improve the performance.

Benchmarks:

Superposition:

TimeSpy Demo Version:

Any comment or question feel free to comment.

And if I help you feel free to say thanks

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Zfast4y0u · Nov 6, 2018

My comment is, u are a bit late mate. better make video about it then ''wall'' of text. btw not sure what u did but there is no G from guide in ur post, half of it seam to be missing.

jdcchora1533 · Nov 6, 2018

Zfast4y0u said:
My comment is, u are a bit late mate. better make video about it then ''wall'' of text. btw not sure what u did but there is no G from guide in ur post, half of it seam to be missing.

Better late than never

Anyway now is the time to buy 1080ti and not buy 2080 or 2080ti so I think that this guide isnt late.

New pics links.

The Pook · Nov 6, 2018

I was considering a G12/X62 for my 1060, but my 1080 Ti barely hits 60c on the air cooler (and it's quieter than my 1060).

Zfast4y0u · Nov 6, 2018

those mini heatsinks, did you glue em to the vrm, vram? what were the temps?

glue'd are pain to take off, if u ever must, even saw some ppl actually dmg vram chip by trying to take em off.

i might use some and put on top of my back plates, should help a lot with good airflow from front. it will look like gipsy mod but nowdays there are no backplates with heatsinks like those small ones -.-

my top card back plate is sometime warm to touch, wouldnt say hot but aint far from it, even when back fan is mounted as intake and blows some air on it but without success to cool it down a lot since surface is, how it is...

mark_thaddeus · Nov 6, 2018

Zfast4y0u said:
those mini heatsinks, did you glue em to the vrm, vram?

Those mini heat sinks come with thermal tape on them and based on the picture he posted, he used them on his memory modules, mosfets, and VRM.

8051 · Nov 6, 2018

So what kind of overclocks and temps are you getting w/your Gigabyte 1080Ti Gaming OC w/the kraken installed?

jdcchora1533 · Nov 7, 2018

Zfast4y0u said:
those mini heatsinks, did you glue em to the vrm, vram? what were the temps?

glue'd are pain to take off, if u ever must, even saw some ppl actually dmg vram chip by trying to take em off.

i might use some and put on top of my back plates, should help a lot with good airflow from front. it will look like gipsy mod but nowdays there are no backplates with heatsinks like those small ones -.-

my top card back plate is sometime warm to touch, wouldnt say hot but aint far from it, even when back fan is mounted as intake and blows some air on it but without success to cool it down a lot since surface is, how it is...

those heatsinks didnt have any glue.

i buy tape ultra thin from 3m (1st picture) and used so its easier to remove in the future if i need.

also there are videos on the internet that show if you remove the main heatsink from the gpu that normaly is sticky with the vram, and switch to a fan (kraken g12) the temperatures drop 10ºC.

jdcchora1533 · Nov 7, 2018

8051 said:
So what kind of overclocks and temps are you getting w/your Gigabyte 1080Ti Gaming OC w/the kraken installed?

About the clocks you can check the best performance overclock in my image that is in the first post.

About the temperature, all depends of the speed that I put in my fans.

If I put 100% fan speed in my fans I got: 24ºC

But as I like the "sound of the silence" I put my fans at 30% so usually I´m in 51ºC (as you can see in the 1st post too).

Both temperatures in full load.

8051 · Nov 12, 2018

Nice job. Are you sure you can't squeeze more out of it than 2062Mhz.? Maybe by raising vcore a little higher?

jdcchora1533 · Nov 12, 2018

8051 said:
Nice job. Are you sure you can't squeeze more out of it than 2062Mhz.? Maybe by raising vcore a little higher?

I can go further than 2062mhz but the perfomance in the benchmark tests will decrease so everyone need to find the sweet point of each card.

For example with this card I could get 2112mhz BUT the performance decreased a LOT.

The highest vcore that I used was 1.09 that is the default of pascal units.

The performance decreased too.

8051 · Nov 12, 2018

jdcchora1533 said:
I can go further than 2062mhz but the perfomance in the benchmark tests will decrease so everyone need to find the sweet point of each card.

For example with this card I could get 2112mhz BUT the performance decreased a LOT.

The highest vcore that I used was 1.09 that is the default of pascal units.

The performance decreased too.

In what benchmarks did the performance decrease at 2112 Mhz. core clock as opposed to 2062 Mhz.?

jdcchora1533 · Nov 14, 2018

8051 said:
In what benchmarks did the performance decrease at 2112 Mhz. core clock as opposed to 2062 Mhz.?

In both (timespy and superposition).

Everything have his own sweet spot... and its never the highest clock you can get.

Like another things... never what looks the best is "the best" :specool:

8051 · Nov 14, 2018

jdcchora1533 said:
In both (timespy and superposition).

Everything have his own sweet spot... and its never the highest clock you can get.

Like another things... never what looks the best is "the best" :specool:

Were you overclocking both the core and the memory when you conducted these tests?

bmgjet · Nov 14, 2018

2062mhz on 1.062v is about right for not hitting the power limit on a stock bios.
Higher voltage or clocks will just have it hitting power limit and drop performance.

XOC bios would remove that power limit from dropping performance but it has its own issues.
Or a shunt mod.

8051 · Nov 15, 2018

bmgjet said:
2062mhz on 1.062v is about right for not hitting the power limit on a stock bios.
Higher voltage or clocks will just have it hitting power limit and drop performance.

XOC bios would remove that power limit from dropping performance but it has its own issues.
Or a shunt mod.

Thanks this explains what's going on perfectly. The stock VBIOS on both my Gigabyte 1080Ti Gaming OC and MSI 1080Ti Duke had really conservative power and voltage limits. I should've stuck w/those limits in the case of the Gigabyte 1080Ti Gaming OC.

asasivar12 · Jun 24, 2019

Hello,

I am very new tho this. I have the same GPU as you, and want to do the Identical setup for my cooling. My questions is around the Heat sinks (again very new at this, please go easy on me), What are the sizes or your heatsink? and why is the heatsink on the top right a diff color? what type of thermal pad did you use?

I do apologize if this come across as very basic questions, its simply because I have never used heatsink or thermal pads before. The install I've watched a lot and think I can handle that. In the videos a lot of them dont use heat sinks or thermal pads for the vrams. Is this absolutely necessary?

Thanks in advance

jdcchora1533 · Jun 29, 2019

asasivar12 said:
Hello,

I am very new tho this. I have the same GPU as you, and want to do the Identical setup for my cooling. My questions is around the Heat sinks (again very new at this, please go easy on me), What are the sizes or your heatsink? and why is the heatsink on the top right a diff color? what type of thermal pad did you use?

I do apologize if this come across as very basic questions, its simply because I have never used heatsink or thermal pads before. The install I've watched a lot and think I can handle that. In the videos a lot of them dont use heat sinks or thermal pads for the vrams. Is this absolutely necessary?

Thanks in advance

You can use any kind of heatsinks, I used heatsinks from raspberry pi size.

One is different because I didn't have more of the other quality.

Thermal pad very slim.

You should use it because swapping the cooler will remove some thermal pads that usually it's up there. So I recommend to use it.

Any doubt about this feel free to let me know.

Sent from my 5060D using Tapatalk

asasivar12 · Jul 15, 2019

Thanks

jdcchora1533 said:
You can use any kind of heatsinks, I used heatsinks from raspberry pi size.

One is different because I didn't have more of the other quality.

Thermal pad very slim.

You should use it because swapping the cooler will remove some thermal pads that usually it's up there. So I recommend to use it.

Any doubt about this feel free to let me know.

Sent from my 5060D using Tapatalk

Thanks for your reply, I completed the build a while ago, but have been busy and didn't have a chance to provide an update on here. I did end up using similar heat sinks to the ones you used. The process was smooth.

Had a ton of fun, my first time actually building an entire computer and I absolutely loved it.

PS. I am new to the pc community and its fantastic. Thanks again.

TheCourier · Feb 8, 2020

Hey, i hope its not too late but im doing the same thing for my gpu which is the same as you have but without a bracket.

What i wanted to ask you is what was your temps on the memory? as they were cooled only with a heat sink.

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