Octane Tips, Tricks, Info and Experiences

[Oussebon]

Skyrim SE especially without mods won't brutalise that system. If your CPU and GPU temps are fine during Prime and Futuremark respectively you're probably safe.

You can always run Prime and Furmark at the same time if you want to torture the system, or run AIDA's stress test with the 30 day free trial.

 

[shale]

this is my benchmark with stock cpu and -150mV

 

[Oussebon]

The print screen button is your friend

 

[Scott]

this is my benchmark with stock cpu and -150mV

That's without an OC on the GPU? Could you post the link to that image you took a picture of. The link that you are on www. 3dmark.com etc.

 

[Scott]

Just to add, doing a search for scores on 3Dmark would tend to agree that around 14000 would be about right for the 1070 so it would appear that 12000 is low-balling. Be interesting to compare the actual 3DMark links for information regarding why.

 

[Neo]

So I found the issue... I had updated to the 376.33 Nvidia drivers and it had altered my settings - specifically the most obvious ones:

Power management setting - had reverted back to "optimal" from "prefer maximum performance"
PhysX has reverted back to "auto select" instead of the GTX 1070

I changed them back and immediately got the attached score of 14079.

No doubt some other settings may have changed; so I'll have to pick through everything again now.

 

[Scott]

Looking good

 

[shale]

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/11201950

 

[Scott]

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/11201950

Perfect, Neo... are you seeing similar frequencies to the above link etc? I would expect you to see slightly more given the overclock but your voltage may be too low to allow for the power requirements.

 

[Neo]

I ran another test shortly after the 14k one above and got this:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/16969903

I think all is in order now although I'm still tweaking settings

 

[Limeako]

Perfect, Neo... are you seeing similar frequencies to the above link etc? I would expect you to see slightly more given the overclock but your voltage may be too low to allow for the power requirements.

Thanks for the tip. I would like to know how did you apply thermal paste?( what method did u use and did you spread it with card or just let the heat sink do the job?)

I have mx-4 is it good or grizzy is just better?

Thanks!

 

[Scott]

I went with the kryonaut. It's definitely not for beginners though. The only way to apply that stuff is to spread it on which is fun.

Most other pastes I tend to spread also.

 

[Limeako]

I went with the kryonaut. It's definitely not for beginners though. The only way to apply that stuff is to spread it on which is fun.

Most other pastes I tend to spread also.

When checking online videos, most of them spread it with heatsink, and it's seems preferable for newbie like me. But all of them looks like have heatsink that applies larger pressure, I'm curious whether you think octane3's heatsink alone would do the job well? thanks