Report about overclocking RTX 2070 with artifact scanner issues despite no visible problems
Report about overclocking RTX 2070 with artifact scanner issues despite no visible problems
Hello,
here are the details of my hardware:
Core i7 7700K (stock clocks - 4.2ghz -> 4500ghz)
MSI RTX 2070 Armor (non-OCed version)
Corsair Vengeance 2X8GB (stock clocks - 3200hz)
Seasonic M12II 620w (used for several years)
My goal is to overclock the GPU to achieve better performance. I attempted these settings with MSI Afterburner:
- max voltage, temp, power limits
- core clock: +200hz
- memory clock: +1000hz
I ran most benchmarks, including a one-hour stress test using both MSI Kombustor and FurMark. Everything worked smoothly—core clock reached 2ghz, memory clock hit 8ghz, temperatures stayed stable (never above 67°C), and no visual artifacts appeared in tests or games.
However, when I used artifact scanners like MSI Kombustor Artifact Scanner or OCCT, they detected an increasing number of errors over time. Although I can’t see any issues on the screen, I’m unsure if these are real problems or just false positives.
Could I simply ignore these scanner results? Could they be faulty, and would that affect my GPU in the long run?
Thank you for your response.
I strongly caution against overlooking it. The system is capable of identifying artifacts with a much higher precision than you can. Even if an error happens, it may not be significant or noticeable enough for the human eye to detect. Consider knock sensors on a car engine—they sense sounds that are too faint for us to hear, yet they occur in the combustion chamber. Adjust the settings so that no artifact scanners report any problems.
Thank you for your feedback.
The optimal settings to avoid artifact errors are core +150 and memory +750, which are significantly higher than the 200 and 1000 I recently tested. It's even more puzzling that Nvidia OCScanner recommends boosting core clocks by 173 Hz, producing minimal artifacts at the start of the test. This raises doubts about the accuracy of these results or the effectiveness of the tool itself.