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Hello, I have an RX 6600 and sometimes my memory clock does this. As you can see in the images the memory clock goes to 0Mhz and it stays there. My guess is that it goes to some kind of idle mode or something but the thing is this really affects me when alt tabing out of a game as when I return to the game the image freezes for 2 seconds and then everything goes to normal including the Mhz, which is annoying (happens at random, sometimes I just have to spend like 5 seconds out of a game for this to happen). The only workaround I have found is to force the memory clock to max out by either disabling Freesync or just using two monitors (the reason why I don't like this workaround is because the temps go a little bit high, which is why I turn off one monitor in the first place). I would like to know if there is any fix to this, this does not happen on Linux so my guess this is just yet another AMD driver issue... I would appreciate any help, thanks.

Hi. Today i noticed my gpu clock and memory clock stays at 1605 mhz and 7000 mhz. It causes the temparature to rise above 60C and afns to spin. After that i restarted my system and it went back to normal. After the restart it jumps to full clock speeds for a 1 second only and it goes back to normal.(Gpu usage is between 3% and 5%) is this jumping normal? And i have some background windows apps working, do i need to close them and how do i do?

Hey everyone So I've been noticing lower fps in games and slightly more stutter. I have been busy with work so haven't had much time to throw myself into single player games. Mostly been playing csgo and LoL. I was wondering why the other day I got lower FPS in csgo roughly 150ish with a GTX 1070 and i7-8700. Today I check MSI afterburner and it seems that my core clock and memory clock are stuck. The memory clock doesn't ever go pas 810Mhz but majority of the time sits at 405Mhz. I wonder if this card is "dead". Anyway if anyone has any ideas why this would randomly happen let me know ! My 3060 will arrive tomorrow but still pretty bummed to find out about the 1070 Thanks in advance !

hi before i start i got a amd gigabyte sniper g1 a88x motherboard with a A10 7580k fm2 cpu, i had two ddr3 4gb (8gb total) hyper x fury working at 2133 (task manager showed 1866 mhz for some reason) and cpu z shows 1072-ish (since ddr i assume that its x2 so 2150-ish), i got two spare modules of gskill sniper 8gb (16gb total) that im using right now because i needed more ram and i didnt want to buy more sticks, so i strip the kingston for the gskill, set up the bios memory multiplier to 21.33 with A.M.P. off and X.M.P. off and cpu z shows the same 1072-ish speed but in the bios and task manager it shows 1333, not even 1866 that i had when the kingston kit was installed, inside the bios the current speed is greyed at 1333 for some reason, turning AMP or XMP on or off, even trying one off and the other on it wont change that, is there any error reading the speed with the apps or my bios isnt working with me? i flashed to the lasted bios i found on the gigabyte web.

I have a Asus Strix r9 380. I am Overclocking it right now and here is my current settings . This is the benchmark of factory to OC I may or may not be OCing the GPU incorrectly, since it is my first time. The problem is when i move the memory clock at 1200 to anything, itll revert back to 1200. But i don't think it is locked.

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

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?

Im using ryzen 5 2400g with APU. My problem is that that my igpu (apu) memory clock is running on 933mhz but im using single 2666mhz stick, not dual but single. help??

rdddwHello everyone. I have been having some issues as of late with my GPU. It gets stuck at 265.5 MHz(GPU-Z), or 278 MHZ (GPU tweak 2 and MSI afterburner) and the Memory clock is Maxed out all the time. This happens Idle and UNDER LOAD. so 17 FPSish in Overwatch and other games. GPU-z says that the PerfCap Reason is PWR(Limited by total Power Limit). I have seemed to try everything I know. Update the drivers, contacted nvidia customer support who were not helpful and thought it was a fan issue???. (the fans work fine BTW) I have searched the Bios looking for something GPU related to enable or disable that is relevant for the GPU and its power. I have edited windows settings enabled all the performance features via control panel and nothin. A few times after changing a number of unrelated Bios settings in relation to the CPU overclock GPU-Z reported that The PerfCap Reason was Idle(like its supposed to when idle). However in these instances the GPU core clock was 550-1400-1450ish and the memory clock was still maxed out. I am literally running out of options. From my testing. It seems to be a windows issue?? but then the bios fixing it for a reboot makes me think it might be something else. I just really hope my card is not dead. Cause it works when it was working on those reboots. Like perfectly fine. so I don't think the card is dead but maybe a sensor died?. I need help though so I have put my GPU-z sensor log, and 2 screenshots of GPU-z to help describe what I am experiencing(I updated GPU-z in-between these pictures btw) SEND HELP ASAP. GPU-Z Sensor Log.txt Edit: Something I did not notice before the VDDC seems to be stuck at that voltage.. Edit 2; Thanks to everyone who replied.:). So in the end it turns out it was just windows not liking the driver install from the first time I installed the newer drivers and then when I went back to the version before that. So on a whim this morning I said screw it, Installed a version from May of this year (397.64) and then restarted and then updated to new newest version of the drivers. (There is something wrong with the driver. It does not like windows AT ALL. and caused the GPU to on occasion under load to say that PWR is the limiting factor for a brief moment whereas the older driver does not seem to. [I have disabled my OC].) In the end Nvidia drivers can and will suck sometimes with a version of windows (10 pro in my case) and cause a number of headaches for the end user. Possibly causing the user to believe its a bad card not bad drivers. (downgrading and upgrading had no effect first time around.) Nvidia FIX YO DRIVERS.

Hey, for some time I haven’t been able to figure out how to have my MSI 1080 Ti clock down when at idle. I’ve searched online and tried a few things but it never works. I just want it to clock down because its unnecessarily at 62c at idle, then the fan kicks in, drops to 57 then goes back up to 62 and the cycle restarts. GPU usage is always between 1-5%. Here are some observations/things I’ve tried: · Default resolution 1440p 60hz · 1 monitor · When installing GPU driver perform clean install · Nvidia control panel > manage 3D settings > power management > Optimal Power/ Adaptive (tried both) · use MSI afterburner no overclock I had the same problem with my GTX 970 but sometimes it would get fixed for some reason and wouldnt have high clocks at idle. Does anyone know how to help? Thanks guys

Hey Guys I got G-Skill Trident Z RGB Ram 3000Mhz 15 16 16 35 on my Asus z170 A Mainboard with an 6700k Processor. I can overclock my processor up to 4.7 ghz without anny issues. But my Ram wont go faster than 1000 Mhz, no matter if XMP is enabled or disabled. I also tried to manually overclock it but it does not work. Please help me im Frustrated and dont know what to do anymore.

I just finished assembling my upgradable RYZEN pc everything is snappy and smooth but i noticed that my ram is being read at 2133. In the bios i changed the ram speed to 3200 (there was an option for it i didnt type it in)>pc restarted being read as 3200mhz now cool> installed drivers>updated bios >downloaded CPUZ . When i select memory tab the DRAM frequency is fluctuating around 1600mhz is that right? Is there an app i can use to see pc stats while playing games oh and how do you OC IGPU in asus x470 prime MB ( i found out how to alocate VRAM this morning and set to 2 gb. PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/y8mdD2 Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/y8mdD2/by_merchant/ CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($94.59 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: Asus - Prime X470-Pro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($177.39 @ Amazon) Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($212.45 @ Amazon) Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($72.89 @ OutletPC) Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($82.16 @ OutletPC) Case: Corsair - SPEC-02 ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Newegg) Power Supply: EVGA - BT 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($24.99 @ Amazon) Total: $714.46 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-05-20 08:22 EDT-0400

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.

Is VRAM the same as memory clock? im kinda a newbie when it comes the Graphics Cards so a little help would be appreciated/ Thanks

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:

Hi, I have a reference GTX 970 and I am planning to overclock in MSI Afterburner but I have a few questions. 1) I understand that as you increase the core clock it requires more core voltage to keep it stable but there is no memory voltage slider. Does this mean that you just push the memory clock as far as it will go without artifacts or crashing? Or does it inherently become more stable as the core voltage is increased? Or is there actually a memory voltage slider which I can't find And what are the artifacts associated with an unstable memory clock. 2) I have posted this question before but the answers were rather...vague. I have a reference GTX 970 and am wondering what the difference voltage control modes are in my afterburner settings.I have the option between reference design, standard msi. and extended msi. Which should I use, and what's the difference between them? Cheers, Ben SPECS: i5 4690K GTX 970 Reference from OCUK Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1886Mhz Asus Maximus VII Hero Corsair AX760i WD Black 1TB

Is lower memory clock better? Like the Asus - GeForce GT 740's 5k MHz memory clock and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770's 400 MHz memory clock.

Soo i can't overclock my memory on my msi gtx 970. I'm increasing the memory up and it jumps right back to +zero when hitting the apply button. Settings in afterburner: Power Limit: 101% Temp Limit 80 Core clock: +212 Memory clock +0 because i can't change it. Fan speed 0 (Auto) How can i fix this? I want to be able to oc my memory. Thanks in advance.

hello. i recently just got a 144hz monitor and i noticed whenever i set the refresh rate to 144hz my gpu's memory clock becomes maxed out cause my idle temps to rise from 33c to about 45c doing absolutely nothing graphic intense, just sitting on my desktop. whenever i set it to 120hz and lower the clocks go back down to normal. i googled this and found no solution on old threads. it seems like this is an old problem that never got a fix? is there any solution to this problem? i would like to run 144hz all the time if possible and not having to switch to 144hz when i want to game. thanks

This question is mostly focussed on OC'ing GPU's. There are a lot of variations of the same GPU when you get a stock one. But when OC'ing, what is the effect of buying a card with a higher BCLK than others? (which are usually more expensive than the others). Also what is the effect of the Boost Clock? Image above are Stats from Stock Retail GPU's, Not Overclocked

The problem that i am having with this graphics card (EVGA gtx 560ti) is that when i load up any sort of game or do any stress test to the gpu the computer will shut down. i thought this could of been a temperature problem but the cpu runs at 60 - 70 degrees c under load and the graphics card runs at 50 - 60 degrees c under load. However to get this result on the gpu i had to downgrade the memory clock from 1053MHz to 527Mhz however i can keep the core clock the same at 900MHz. is there anyway to get the memory clock back at 1053MHz without the computer crashing so that the graphics card can run at optimal performance. i know that the graphics card has enough power as the specification asks for 500w. Any feedback would be great been trying to fix this problem for a while now.

I have recently built a computer with a Gigabyte 7950 in it and I have been playing with the clock speeds, voltages, and fan speeds to get that perfect balance between speed, heat, and noise (from fans).I was wondering what speed every one else is running their 7950 at for their personal rig. I would like this topic to be a nice resource for new overclockers to quicky see what everyone is running and I would like everyone who posts to follow this general format below. Also, add a reason for the speeds that you choose. Gigabyte Windforce 7950 Voltage- 1075 mV Core Clock- 950 MHz Memory Clock- 1425 MHz For my rig, this setup allows me to keep the fans at about 40% while ensuring that the card does not reach 70 C. I know this is a very small overclock but, I wanted a quiet rig. The windforce fans got too loud after 42% so, I overclocked from there.

I was thinking about overclocking my Radeon 6950 nearly to its limits (While remaining stable of course), but I'm most certainly no expert with overclocking. Right now the overclock is at 6970 specs (880 core/1375 mem), how should I prioritize the overclock? Will a higher core clock prove more useful than a higher memory clock speed? If so, then would it be a good idea to lower my memory clock speed in order to achieve a higher core clock speed, or vice versa? Any tips for overclocking are welcome.

Guys can any one help me i own a gtx 670 dcuII it's not the top model and i am willing to overclock it with it's stock asus cooler as much as possible. please help me i am new to overclocking field so guide me.