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Hi all, I have an Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 Super Gaming OC 8G that I got in Nov '19. After the LTT video, I decided to try out NiceHash QuickMiner, and mine in the background when I'm doing college work (Zoom/Word/PowerPoint stuff). Their OCTune determined the optimum settings for my card were: Core Clock: 1020 mhz Core Volt: 662 mv Memory Clock: 7601 mhz The thing is.... I want to try mining ETH without NiceHash (using Ethermine Pool and T-Rex), but I'm struggling to re-create the above settings with MSI Afterburner, and I'm getting confused because I think Afterburner works with deltas rather than fixed values (?). I managed to get "similar" values with the below but the core clock jumps around +/-200mhz and the voltage +/-80mv. Power Limit: 52 % Temp Limit: 67 c Core Clock: +0 mhz Memory Clock: +800 mhz Am I doing something wrong? (First two screenshots of OCTune and HWINFO were taken with with NiceHash QuickMiner+OCTune. Last screenshot was taken with OCTune disabled and Afterburner controlling underclock/overclock/voltages)

GPU: MSI Gaming X 1080ti (in the second PCIe slot because the top one is dead as far as I can tell) CPU: 6700K @ stock (has been OC'd at 4.7 for a while but I turned it off to troubleshoot) 32GB memory @ 2666MHz Motherboard is an MSI Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon Monitor is 3440x1440 (Acer Predator X34 w GSYNC) PSU is a Corsair CS750M 80+ gold Nvidia drivers are v457.09 Was having some crashes and sporadic severe fps drops before, thought I'd fixed them (I reseated the GPU in its slot, moved the 8pin to 2x8pin to a different port on the PSU, and increased the mounting pressure on the CPU). None of these issues have reappeared but now I'm getting the problem described in the title. Most of my games run at a high fps but the input feels choppy. Total War: Warhammer 2 runs at 20fps in the overview and 6 in battles (approximately 1/3 and 1/8 of the expected performance, respectively). I've seen core clocks drop as low as 139MHz (compared to the normal boost of ~1950) Temps are fine, PSU doesn't even get warm, GPU temps sit at around ~60C on the default stealth fan curve and drop down to ~40 with a custom curve which spins them up earlier and higher. CPU temps are similarly fine. It shouldn't be thermal throttling, and the spikes I'm seeing aren't typical of thermal throttling anyway.\ What the heck is going on?

Hi! I recently bought myself a rtx 3090 and decided to do some testing. Using msi afterburner the gpu was boosting between 1860 Mhz and 2050 core clocks (everything at default settings). After new years I decided to do some more testing, this time getting different results. Under the same conditions my core clock was stuck at 1860 and didn't boost at all as before. Anyone has a clue what's going on here? Thanks!

ok so here is my problem: im geting 12 fps. i have a rx 580 and when i play Specifically Minecraft the core clock drops to 300-500 (idle clock) this problem only Happens when i play Minecraft, in every other game it works perfectly. (my card is not overclocked, overheating and has the latest drivers) Would appreciate your help

Hi, I need some help with my Ryzen 5 3600. My Ryzen Core clock is displayed with 4.15 MHz but the Effective clock is like 1.8 to 2 Ghz in Destiny 2. My GPU is at 10% utilization. and my Ryzen round about 45 to 50%. The problem is that I don't get the fps in Destiny I should have. Am I missing on something because I put my Core Clock in the BIOS to 4.15 and the Effective Clock isn't the same. sorry for my bad English. (from Germany) Thanks for the help

im trying to decide what 1070 to buy but im having trouble finding what card to get. i want a 1070 that has the largest potential for overclocking and it is difficult to find a specific result online. can someone please tell me which board partner has managed to get the most MHz out of the 1070.

Hello last year I bought a XFX R9 280x Double D from Amazon, a couple days after building my newly built gaming pc an i5 4590, 8GB of Crucial ballistic ram, 750w Corsair power supply, ASRock Fatalty z97 killer mother board, 1TB Segate HDD I started to notice that in games I would start to get graphic artifacts textures stretching, pixels that would flicker etc games were unplayable once they started happening. Then after I would exit the game hoping the graphic artifacts would stop I would go and watch youtube videos, I would get lines in the youtube videos as well as just browsing the internet I would get lines across the browser flickering from time to time. I did some research and found out that the core clock speed and the memory clock speed is to high and people recommend to down clock both the core and memory speeds just a little bit. After doing so it fixed it for about a day and started back up again. I called XFX and soon got a RMA after putting the new GPU in and played around in some games and got more graphic problems the problem seemed like it never stopped. I've went about a week or so without having problems and then it continued some days would be better than others. The pictures below make me confused because during idle or even just at the desktop the memory clock would go from 150 MHz to 1500 the core clock would go from 300 MHz and jump up to 850 MHz randomly without having anything on my desktop or without doing anything other than having MSI afterburner open I put some pictures of the hardware monitors could anyone help me with this I also called XFX for the third time and even without having my Warranty active they are still going to RMA the card sadly I feel like this will not help me or fix the problem because RMAing the card once didn't help they sent me two bad cars so what are your guys idea on what should I do? Thank you

I noticed that while playing games and even doing GPU benchmark, the core clock on GPU is always unstable same and same as GPU usage. I tried to overclock it and install the latest driver but it still happens. Even when the frame rate drops down to 10-30 FPS, it not even try to push the frame rate up My Msi Ge62vr has a GTX 1060-6GB. During the game play GPU's temperature is stable at 63-65 degree Celsius and 65-73 degree for CPU. The computer is plugged in to its charger and everything set to high performance. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks

Hi, so a friend of mine gave me his gpu to check it since its locked on idle 300mhz core clock. The memories are ramping nicely from 300mhz to 1750mhz. The card has a dual bios, one of them were corrupted giving random artifacts from time to time, so i force flashed it with proper xfx bios rom. I also ddu'ed the driver and installed a fresh one. None have worked. I also tried changing the power limit and clocks manually with adrenaline and msi afterburner and didnt succeed either. I dont think its related with rig config since the problem persist on two different rigs. Strange thing is that core gets to 1250mhz for a brief moment when launching amdvbflashWin. On the other hand stays idle even on furmark. Im running out of ideas here.

Hello, I've been a long time viewer of the channel, and i was looking for some assistance. I've had this Gigabyte 980 ti for a while and i gave it to a friend. It was damaged somehow and would't output anything to monitors (pretty sure it didn't really do anything. I baked the card at 385 F for 8-10 minutes, following the advice of ifixit. I've done this 5 or 6 times before with success so i was sure it would work. After trying to power the card on again after letting it slowly cool it was able to output video to the monitor via dvi-d, so i thought it was ok. As soon as gpu drivers started taking effect, going from 800x600 to 1920x1080, it crashed, or the dvi-d was broken. i didn't try any other ports at the time. A year later i came across this card and i took it apart and cleaned all that i could on the board, fans, fins, etc. I put it into my desktop and connected to hdmi vs dvi-d. using a thermaltake 1000M Black riser for the pcie and plugging it into power from the 600W psu inside the case. I was able to boot and get display, and after installing nvidia drivers all seemed good. I ran msi afterburner and kombuster and got the attached results. Does anyone know what could be going on?

Recently I was in MSI afterburn messing with some settings that I shouldn't of been messing with. I changed my CPU core clock without even knowing it. Then my PC Froze and i turned it off. I went into the BIOS and tried to set the bios settings to default. Then i booted up my pc and after a min of being in Windows it froze again. Im kinda a noob to the PC world so idk what to do at this point? An help would be highly appreciated!!!!!!!!!

RX 470 problems with core clock jumping up and down fire strike is 11k in graphics score and temp is alsow up and down but i chaned the gpu termalpast and still it did nothing tested in ghost recon wildlands and on low 1080p got 55 fps and very high got 41 fps and only thing that chaned is gpu usage i it shows in the benchmark 0-100 in the bottom corner the cooler is good its sapphire rx 470 nitro i flashed bios but it did nothing i need help

So i have an 1800x overclocked to 4.1 ghz. Could i overclock it more if i only used 4/8 cores I know this cpu isnt rly ment for games. But i still play some of them and the cpu is a bottleneck in most single core performance Thy for any help

Hi all, I just picked up an RX 5600 XT from PowerColor and when I booted up the PC and downloaded the latest AMD Drivers I went into MSI Afterburner and saw something I don't know how to fix. The memory clock seems fine, but the core clock, or whatever its called will not surpass 810, even under full load. Does anyone of you have an idea on how to fix it? The clocks and different settings can be found below:

Hello everybody! I noticed something strange while I was playing casually my games (GTA V, Division 2) through my MSI Afterburner OSD. The Core Clock of my GTX 1060 was fluctuating a lot recently. Took it into Unigine Superposition to see what are the results after a benchmark. But right after I was benchmarking the GPU noticed the Core Clock frequency started fluctuating like hell. Does anyone know what this problem might be? And how to fix it? It also looks like the benchmark lags at every 0.5s for a couple of miliseconds, like it's slowing down, but then goes up again. The Min FPS from the benchmark doesn't seem to catch it, but it feels like the FPS is also fluctuating a lot. Here is a video I uploaded on YouTube to see clearly what I mean. You can see the Core Clock Freq in the right upper corner of the screen. I suggest using Full Screen mode, sorry for the mediocre quality. Link to the video: Can somebody help me in advantage?

Hi Basically I noticed a huge frame drop on fortnite after playing a bit. Usually I get like 120-200 fps and after playing like some time (not constant, seems to happen at random times) the frames drop to unplayable 40 fps. I'm pretty sure the gpu core clock has something to do with it. Since I'm running a 7970 ghz edition it's core clock should be 1000. But if I had afterburner and gpuz opened, both told me that whenever my frames dropped to 40 the core clock also dropped to 501 mhz and it never goes back up again. I've tried uninstalling msi afterburner and reinstalling video drivers. I've also tried messing around with different game settings but nothing seems to work as of now. I don't understand how the core clock can be locked at such a low speed, is it thermal throttling (the thermals get up to 97 degrees and it's locked at 100% usage) or something else? Tweaking the clock speed in afterburner also doesn't make a difference (the actual clock speed doesn't change regardless of what I'm setting it to). Any information would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

Sup, I oc-ed mine R3 1200 to 3.7GHz at 1.25V (set in bios) on ASRock AB350M-HDV. I started stress testing with Aida64 and RealBench and everything was fine. After that I started a Prime95 test (small fft's) my vcore started to raise to 1.28V and go back to 1.264V *which i guess is normal* but the strange thing is that some of the cores went to 3794MHz *even I set the multiplier to 37 at bios*. Is that normal cuz I didnt saw things like that before when I was at 1.275V (I dropped the voltage to 1.25 my lowest stable)

I have a laptop. My CPU is a 4720HQ and my GPU is a 960m. I was playing witcher 3 and both my CPU And GPU were at 100% load. Both were below 70°C but for some reason my GPU was running at 540mhz down from the original clock speed of 1202. Why Is this? And how can I correct it as I would like the extra FPS. Thank you

So my GPU seems to like either one but not both at a time. I got G1 gaming GTX 970 with the bios from GTX970 thread. If i go core clock i can get it up to +170 with 100% stable in valley bench and firestrike or I can have mem +750 stable. But as soon as i start to push both of them together it gets unstable. So which one would be better?

In general, when overclocking GPUs, what determines how much you should turn up the core and memory clock speeds? For example, I have a Sapphire HD 7850 1GB Dual-X Edition. At stock voltage, I have it stable at 1050MHz core clock and 1400MHz memory clock. Which should I turn up higher and why? Are these settings out of proportion? Thanks for the help.

http://deliddedtech.com/2016/02/06/amds-downclocking-issue-explained/ Thoughts? While I appreciate reduced power consumption, temperatures, and fan speeds while running games that don't stress the GPU, the potential stutter and frame drops it causes can be extremely annoying. Do you think AMD needs to adjust this function at all to improve performance? TL;DR:

I recently got a r9 380 to complete a spare parts build consisting of the 380 an fx8320@4.7ghz a msi 970 gaming and a 1tb hdd inside a h440. Whenever I play gta I get stuttering no matter what my settings are. When I look at my gpu core clock speed it never stays at its max turbo it keeps moving between 700mhz-900mhz and whenever it dips I get stuttering. Overclocking has no effect on this. I can OC the card to 1080mhz or leave it at stock and it does the same thing anyway. I don't know how to fix this clock speed moment please let me know if you have an idea on how to fix this thanks1

can lowering my core clock mhz keep my gpu from throttling less as it will hit 92c then throttle the core clock to 592mhz then goes to 91c at 1190mhz ish so could lowering it get me less stutters at the cost of over all performance

Hello everyone, recently posted my first time in the LTT forums in GD, and now that the pleasantries are done, its now time to get down to business. :angry: I recently became interested in overclocking, and with my aging CPU, GPU, and PSU finally starting to give out after years of hard work I finally decided to upgrade and start overclocking as a hobby. I have watched and read a lot of overclocking guides, including everything OC related in the LTT channel on Youtube. Since this is the Graphics Card section I will be directing my related questions here. But first lets get my rig out of the way so you know what you're dealing with: CPU: AMD FX-8370 Vishera 8-core 4.0 Ghz (4.3 Turbo) Graphics Card: MSI AMD R9 390X RAM: 16GB (4 x 4GB Sticks) Team Vulcan 1600 DDR3 MoBo: MSI 990FXA-GD65V2 Storage: Seagate 500GB 7200 rpm Hard Drive (Yeah I know, i have an SSD on the way for my boot drive and games. :lol:) PSU: EVGA 750W Gold Fully Modular CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Evo-212 Now that is done, lets get down to the brass tacks: I'm trying to use MSI Afterburner 4.1.1 (the most recent update) to over clock my R9 390X and set up profiles on it so I can squeeze more performance out of my gaming experience, and it seems I'm running into some troubles. I have 4 profiles set up, and after reading a number of overclocking guides on this particular card I felt confident that I could get similar performance out of my card. I used the Afterburner to set up aggressive fan profiles to keep my card from throttling and used the 4 profiles to make small, incremental improvements to the clock speeds of both the GPU and the Memory. After that I used the Kombuster for an average of 20 minutes per profile to check for fragmenting and other graphical errors while monitoring the temps to keep them below 75 c to mitigate thermal throttling. If I encountered graphical problems or temps exceeding my standards I either backed off the clocks or adjusted power and voltage until there were no problems that I could see and temps were under control. It took me hours (from 0100 to 0400) to get four profiles that met my various expectations for gaming, from a profile (near stock) for League of Legends, to a higher clocked profile for Heros of the Storm's more graphically and physics intensive gameplay, a profile for Metro 2033 Redux and Metro 2033: Last Light Redux's challenging requirements, and a 'Max Clock' profile for future gaming endeavors. However, this is where I've run into a snag. All of the profiles I have posted below have been tested with Kombuster (the Fur Mark profile) for 20 minutes and all of them have kept their temperatures below 75 C. With that in mind, every time I load of 3D Mark 11 to test how the overclock improves my performance, it crashes and freezes my whole computer. I have to do a hard restart, and I've tried adjusting settings, but any time I use anything except the stock settings the card crashes. So take a look at these profiles and tell me what you think. I think I might know what is potentially causing it, my CPU overclock, but I cannot test it until I get back. But for now take a look at these profiles and tell me what you think: For reference: Stock Profile: Daily Driving Core Voltage (mV): +0 Power Limit (%): +0 CPU Clock: 1080 Mhz Memory Clock: 1500 Mhz Profile 1: League of Legends Core Voltage (mV): +0 Power Limit (%): +20 CPU Clock: 1100 Mhz (+20Mhz over stock) Memory Clock: 1550 Mhz (+50Mhz over stock) Profile 2: Heros of the Storm and DotA 2 Core Voltage (mV): +25 Power Limit (%): +50 CPU Clock: 1130 Mhz (+50Mhz over stock) Memory Clock: 1585 Mhz (+85Mhz over stock) Profile 3: Metro 2033 and Metro 2033: Last Light Core Voltage (mV): +56 Power Limit (%): +50 CPU Clock: 1150 Mhz (+70Mhz over stock) Memory Clock: 1600 Mhz (+100Mhz over stock) Profile 4: Future AAA Games Core Voltage (mV): +100 Power Limit (%): +50 CPU Clock: 1580 Mhz (+100Mhz over stock) Memory Clock: 1650 Mhz (+150Mhz over stock) Attached are the photos of everything. Even through I have the profiles here in text, a picture is worth a thousand words, yes? Anyways, I've heard that once you reach the threshold of performance and efficiency it gets harder to achieve higher clocks and requires more voltage. However, I didn't believe that I would have to increase the voltage by 100 mV and increase my power by 50% in order to get a stable improvement of 100Mhz GPU and 150Mhz Memory clock. However, with the benchmark crashing after it loads and begins, I have to believe that my clocks are *not* stable and they need tweaking. Or there might be an issue with my CPU overclock, which I achieved using the antiquated MSI OC Genie II. I understand that the MSI R9 390X is already factory overclocked, and I read that it's overclocking is fairly limited due to the Grenada XT architecture. I knew that going into it, but after reading a bunch of overclocking guides for this card all of them achieved a very similar (stable) overclock actually using *less* power. To reiterate I bumped up core voltage and power limit/back off clocks to eliminate artifacting and tested them in Kombuster for 20 minutes. So, thoughts? By the way, I hope this was easy to read, I spent half an hour working on this post: no one wants to read a sloppy post! :lol: Thumbnails are as follows: Profiles 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Hello everyone, recently posted my first time in the LTT forums in GD, and now that the pleasantries are done, its now time to get down to business. :angry: I recently became interested in overclocking, and with my aging CPU, GPU, and PSU finally starting to give out after years of hard work I finally decided to upgrade and start overclocking as a hobby. I have watched and read a lot of overclocking guides, including everything OC related in the LTT channel on Youtube. Since this is the Graphics Card section I will be directing my related questions here. But first lets get my rig out of the way so you know what you're dealing with: CPU: AMD FX-8370 Vishera 8-core 4.0 Ghz (4.3 Turbo) Graphics Card: MSI AMD R9 390X RAM: 16GB (4 x 4GB Sticks) Team Vulcan 1600 DDR3 MoBo: MSI 990FXA-GD65V2 Storage: Seagate 500GB 7200 rpm Hard Drive (Yeah I know, i have an SSD on the way for my boot drive and games. :lol:) PSU: EVGA 750W Gold Fully Modular CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Evo-212 Now that is done, lets get down to the brass tacks: I'm trying to use MSI Afterburner 4.1.1 (the most recent update) to over clock my R9 390X and set up profiles on it so I can squeeze more performance out of my gaming experience, and it seems I'm running into some troubles. I have 4 profiles set up, and after reading a number of overclocking guides on this particular card I felt confident that I could get similar performance out of my card. I used the Afterburner to set up aggressive fan profiles to keep my card from throttling and used the 4 profiles to make small, incremental improvements to the clock speeds of both the GPU and the Memory. After that I used the Kombuster for an average of 20 minutes per profile to check for fragmenting and other graphical errors while monitoring the temps to keep them below 75 c to mitigate thermal throttling. If I encountered graphical problems or temps exceeding my standards I either backed off the clocks or adjusted power and voltage until there were no problems that I could see and temps were under control. It took me hours (from 0100 to 0400) to get four profiles that met my various expectations for gaming, from a profile (near stock) for League of Legends, to a higher clocked profile for Heros of the Storm's more graphically and physics intensive gameplay, a profile for Metro 2033 Redux and Metro 2033: Last Light Redux's challenging requirements, and a 'Max Clock' profile for future gaming endeavors. However, this is where I've run into a snag. All of the profiles I have posted below have been tested with Kombuster (the Fur Mark profile) for 20 minutes and all of them have kept their temperatures below 75 C. With that in mind, every time I load of 3D Mark 11 to test how the overclock improves my performance, it crashes and freezes my whole computer. I have to do a hard restart, and I've tried adjusting settings, but any time I use anything except the stock settings the card crashes. So take a look at these profiles and tell me what you think. I think I might know what is potentially causing it, my CPU overclock, but I cannot test it until I get back. But for now take a look at these profiles and tell me what you think: For reference the stock profile: Profile 1: