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Nevermind, got a hyper 212 installed and overclocked just to 4.0,got a firestrike score of 10,413

Hello, I plan on getting the msi 970 in a bit and was planning on doing some overclocking. Since I am new to it can someone tell me if there is a way to test the stability of an overclock like there is for cpus.

Also does overclocking make a substantial difference in terms of fps?

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If you want to test the stability of the OC, get a benchmarking software like Unigine Heaven, and run that at progressively higher clock speeds, until you can no longer achieve a stable clock. Use small increments in clock speed, like 10 mhz at a time.

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I've always just used EVGA Precision to get an extra 150-200MHz and then play FC3 for a few hours(Its the most hardcore graphical game out there in most cases) . If it doesn't crash then yay it worked. Obviously there are more technical ways of doing it but since Precision just uses the nvidia boost technology thing (I forgot the name) then it will throttle itself and wont overvolt too much.

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EVGA OCscanner to test the short term stability. Use this to test it at first, when it fails find the point where it doesn't fail and then use a stress testing program (such as Unigine Heaven) to give it a long term test. If it doesn't fail then you've got a stable OC, if it fails you'll need to set it back a bit and do another test.

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Hello, I plan on getting the msi 970 in a bit and was planning on doing some overclocking. Since I am new to it can someone tell me if there is a way to test the stability of an overclock like there is for cpus.

Also does overclocking make a substantial difference in terms of fps?

Use MSI Afterburner to overclock, Furmark to test for stability

 

Crank power limit up all the way, and see how far you can get on the core before it becomes unstable. VRAM overclocking isn't that beneficial so don't worry about it for now

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A 12 hour gpu loop is insane. Do a few runs and if it's stable it's stable.

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GPU's don't need 12 hour loops cos any benchmark does the same thing over and over again.  The reason you do CPU 12 hour tests is cos in Prime95, it stresses different parts of the CPU as it calculates prime numbers, sometimes only hitting problems at certain tests.

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So i was able to get a stable 1500 core clock with overclocking,in my unigine valley/heaven my scores are about what others have reported,but my fire strike score is just barely under 10k and not able to go over 10k. BTW i also am using a i5 3570 and 8gb ram

I'm seeing most get 10300+ ,am I doing something wrong? 9970 was my highest score.

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Firestrike score or very specifically the Graphics Score?  Very different :P  My total score is about 10.5K+ or so, but my graphics score is about 13.6k for Firestrike.

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Firestrike, my graphics score is always 13k+ as well.

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Nevermind, got a hyper 212 installed and overclocked just to 4.0,got a firestrike score of 10,413

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