01-05-2014, 07:45 AM
During a WPA cracking session I decided to overclock my GTX570 to see what effect it has on my hashing speed. Stock voltage and clock settings in MSI afterburner are 0mV and 770MHz respectively.
Changing my core clock to 850MHz made a nice change from ~31kh/s to ~35kh/s, not bad! Here comes the weird part...
No matter how much I increase the core clock speed, I'm able to see very positive changes to the hash rate. What's interesting is that I don't have to change the voltage. (wtf)
People familiar with overclocking know that you need to increase the voltage if you want a higher core frequency, yet, for some reason, I'm able to increase my frequency to ridiculously high amounts (900MHz!) without changing the voltage. That is definitely not normal behavior if you ask me! Under normal conditions, a gpu should timeout and the drivers crash causing a temporary black screen if it's not supplied with enough voltage for the amount of processing it's trying to do. You'll also see screen artifacts!
What's even more silly is that I'm able to run 900MHz (~37kh/s!) with LESS voltage than stock. In other words, i'm undervolting the card, and still somehow getting an increase in hash rate.
Normally, I can't run 900MHz during a gaming session unless I bump the voltage up by 100mV without getting driver crashes, yet I can hash at the same frequency with an undervolt (-20mV in afterburner).
I did have to do the TDR detection registry patch to get cudahashcat64 running, so i'm thinking that this might be the root of this strange behavior. What do you guys think? Is this normal behavior when hashing with gpu's? Is what i'm doing dangerous for my gpu? Let me know what you guys think about this situation. I could just be freaking out over nothing.
For the time being, I have settings at stock until I can get to the bottom of this.
Changing my core clock to 850MHz made a nice change from ~31kh/s to ~35kh/s, not bad! Here comes the weird part...
No matter how much I increase the core clock speed, I'm able to see very positive changes to the hash rate. What's interesting is that I don't have to change the voltage. (wtf)
People familiar with overclocking know that you need to increase the voltage if you want a higher core frequency, yet, for some reason, I'm able to increase my frequency to ridiculously high amounts (900MHz!) without changing the voltage. That is definitely not normal behavior if you ask me! Under normal conditions, a gpu should timeout and the drivers crash causing a temporary black screen if it's not supplied with enough voltage for the amount of processing it's trying to do. You'll also see screen artifacts!
What's even more silly is that I'm able to run 900MHz (~37kh/s!) with LESS voltage than stock. In other words, i'm undervolting the card, and still somehow getting an increase in hash rate.
Normally, I can't run 900MHz during a gaming session unless I bump the voltage up by 100mV without getting driver crashes, yet I can hash at the same frequency with an undervolt (-20mV in afterburner).
I did have to do the TDR detection registry patch to get cudahashcat64 running, so i'm thinking that this might be the root of this strange behavior. What do you guys think? Is this normal behavior when hashing with gpu's? Is what i'm doing dangerous for my gpu? Let me know what you guys think about this situation. I could just be freaking out over nothing.
For the time being, I have settings at stock until I can get to the bottom of this.