I recently built my first computer and decided to overclock it using msi afterburner. after a couple hours of messing around i found i was getting a stable over clock of +160 to the core clock and + 650 to the memory with a voltage increase of 23%. I was using heaven benchmark set to extreme at 1440p resolution on full screen and got a score of 2060 on stock settings and a score of 2239 with the overclock. all was well and good till I accidentally entered the value of 1600 instead of 160 to my core clock and black screened. Because I had msi afterburner was set to open on start up and apply my over clock I kept crashing so I opened windows in safe mode and uninstalled msi afterburner then reinstalled it once i was out of safe mode. Again all was well and good though after that i found that i could raise my memory over clock to +1100 and my core clock to +160 with a voltage increase of 20% without getting any crashes stutters or artifacts in haven benchmark with the same settings or various games such as assigns creed odyssey, rainbow six siege and gta v. though when I bench marked it I was only getting a score of 2192 furthermore when i brought the values back down to stock i got a score of 1971. I've tried reinstalling my nvidia drivers and reinstalling haven though no luck getting back to the values i had before. i read that sometimes when memory is overclocked to values that high it can give worse performance instead of crashing or artifacting so i tried various other values like 1000 900 800 ect though they all got worse scores then the 1100 mghz overclock.
If anyone could help explain whats going on and/or show me how to fix this it would be much appreciated
Specs
GPU - Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super Windforce oc 3x 8G
CPU - Ryzen 5 3600x
Ram (2 x 8gb) ripjaw ddr4 3600 ram
OS Unactivated windows 10 pro
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