help with overclocking my gtx 560 ti

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#1 ablafasaolin
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i have the gigabyte gtx 560 ti, and from what iv read on the internet, they can reach a stable overclock of about 1010 mhz on the core clock. iv tried using both gigabyte oc guru, and another gigabyte overclocking software. but even when i overclock it with these i see no perfomance increase at all, in fact i even did i 3d mark benchtest and my perfomance was equal to stock clock vs the overclock. now im just guessing that this software is just not even overclocking because i tuened to the core clock speed way past what would be stable just to see what would happen and nothing changed, i was able to do evverything as normal, is it just the software being crappy? what am i doing wrong?

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What CPU do you have? I didn't see a performance increase going from 1000MHz to 1100MHz, but I suspect my CPU was bottlenecking the card.. EDIT: And don't try to hit 1100MHz on air btw.. I have an Apogee GT CPU waterblock on my GPU, and my voltage controller and VRM's are heavily heatsinked...
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#3 ablafasaolin
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i have an i5 2500k so its def not being bottlenecked
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#4 superclocked
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i have an i5 2500k so its def not being bottleneckedablafasaolin
Next time that you benchmark, make sure that you're not forcing VSync via the nVidia control panel. 3DMark11 caps the framerate at 20fps if VSync is turned on...
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Just out of curiosity, what scores do you have for your CPU and Graphics for the "Windows Experience Index"? Is CPU higher than the video? If not then you do have some (however slight) bottleneck happening, and you'd only see an increase once you overclock your CPU. That said, what resolution are you running? Screen resolution can also make a difference as lower res tends to put more stress on the CPU instead of the GPU..
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#6 ablafasaolin
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Just out of curiosity, what scores do you have for your CPU and Graphics for the "Windows Experience Index"? Is CPU higher than the video? If not then you do have some (however slight) bottleneck happening, and you'd only see an increase once you overclock your CPU. That said, what resolution are you running? Screen resolution can also make a difference as lower res tends to put more stress on the CPU instead of the GPU..Stinger78
my i5 is overclocked to 4.4 ghz. im playing at 1080 p
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#7 ablafasaolin
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[QUOTE="ablafasaolin"]i have an i5 2500k so its def not being bottleneckedsuperclocked
Next time that you benchmark, make sure that you're not forcing VSync via the nVidia control panel. 3DMark11 caps the framerate at 20fps if VSync is turned on...

ok thx i do have v snyc forced on, but would that improve my gaming perfomance as well?
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#8 superclocked
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[QUOTE="superclocked"][QUOTE="ablafasaolin"]i have an i5 2500k so its def not being bottleneckedablafasaolin
Next time that you benchmark, make sure that you're not forcing VSync via the nVidia control panel. 3DMark11 caps the framerate at 20fps if VSync is turned on...

ok thx i do have v snyc forced on, but would that improve my gaming perfomance as well?

Keep VSync on for games so you won't get screen tearing. The VSync option just explains why you weren't getting any improvement in your 3DMark scores ;)
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#9 Stinger78
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[QUOTE="superclocked"][QUOTE="ablafasaolin"]i have an i5 2500k so its def not being bottleneckedablafasaolin
Next time that you benchmark, make sure that you're not forcing VSync via the nVidia control panel. 3DMark11 caps the framerate at 20fps if VSync is turned on...

ok thx i do have v snyc forced on, but would that improve my gaming perfomance as well?

Not to take away from superclocked's response, but personally there are very few games that I ever enable vsync on. Vsync, along with motion blur are the first things I always disable in a game, along with most AA as many games at 1080p are good enough for me. AA off also lets my video card last quite a while before I have to start setting things on Low.