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Caroto_GamerGR
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11-26-2016, 02:10 AM
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I recently assembled a PC and am unfamiliar with GPU overclocking, so I thought you could assist.
I attempted to overclock it in MSI Afterburner several times. The stress tests generally succeeded, but the game would often crash.
I set the power limit to 122% and increased the core clock by 190 MHz, reaching around 1.5 GHz. I ran a few combustion tests at maximum settings and they passed.
While playing Witcher 3 on ultra, I noticed frame drops and crashes multiple times. I reduced the frequency to 150 MHz. The same issue occurred with Far Cry 4 on ultra settings—frame drops and a message about an NVIDIA kernel failure followed by recovery, after which the game would crash again.
When checking the hardware monitoring software, the power limit often decreased and GPU usage dropped as well, so I wondered if this was normal.
Could anyone help me with overclocking? Did I make a mistake?
MOBO: Maxmius VII Ranger
PSU: SeaSonic G-750 SSR-750RM
CPU: i5 4690K @4.5 GHz
8GB of DDR3 Memory
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Caroto_GamerGR
11-26-2016, 02:10 AM #1

I recently assembled a PC and am unfamiliar with GPU overclocking, so I thought you could assist.
I attempted to overclock it in MSI Afterburner several times. The stress tests generally succeeded, but the game would often crash.
I set the power limit to 122% and increased the core clock by 190 MHz, reaching around 1.5 GHz. I ran a few combustion tests at maximum settings and they passed.
While playing Witcher 3 on ultra, I noticed frame drops and crashes multiple times. I reduced the frequency to 150 MHz. The same issue occurred with Far Cry 4 on ultra settings—frame drops and a message about an NVIDIA kernel failure followed by recovery, after which the game would crash again.
When checking the hardware monitoring software, the power limit often decreased and GPU usage dropped as well, so I wondered if this was normal.
Could anyone help me with overclocking? Did I make a mistake?
MOBO: Maxmius VII Ranger
PSU: SeaSonic G-750 SSR-750RM
CPU: i5 4690K @4.5 GHz
8GB of DDR3 Memory

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Velizar06
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11-26-2016, 08:41 AM
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You proceeded directly to +190mhz? That's not advisable, begin at +10mhz and increase by 10s, then check stability and performance at each step.
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Velizar06
11-26-2016, 08:41 AM #2

You proceeded directly to +190mhz? That's not advisable, begin at +10mhz and increase by 10s, then check stability and performance at each step.

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25daniel
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11-27-2016, 02:53 AM
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You shouldn't immediately jump to 190 and not 10 since that's too low; begin around 55, then progress to 100, 130, and 150. When it crashes, return to the working version and increase slightly. Use the heaven benchmark to confirm it's in full screen.
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25daniel
11-27-2016, 02:53 AM #3

You shouldn't immediately jump to 190 and not 10 since that's too low; begin around 55, then progress to 100, 130, and 150. When it crashes, return to the working version and increase slightly. Use the heaven benchmark to confirm it's in full screen.

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