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Will over-volting damage my card?

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Unless you want a really high overclock, you don't really want or need to touch the voltage. And yes it can damage the card if you go too far.

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I'm pretty new to overclocking so please take some of this with a grain of salt.

 

Ok so i downloaded MSI afterburner wanting to take the plunge in to overclocking with my R9 380 but i looked into it for some time and I had seen about over-volting. Can this permanently damage your card? Is it necessary for overclocking?

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Unless you want a really high overclock, you don't really want or need to touch the voltage. And yes it can damage the card if you go too far.

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1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

Unless you want a really high overclock, you don't really want or need to touch the voltage. And yes it can damage the card if you go too far.

Thank you for the really quick answer! I'm only after a moderate overclock anyway.

PC - CPU  Ryzen 7 2700X - GPU AMD Radeon RX570 - Motherboard Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite - RAM 16GB Corsair Vengeace PRO RGB 3200MHz - Storage 480GB Sandisk Ultra II SSD - 1TB WD Blue (X2) - PSU Corsair TX650M - Cooling AMD Wraith PRISM - Case Fractal Design Define R5

 

Peripherals - Keyboard  Razer Blackwidow Chroma V2 - Mouse Logitech G402/G403/G305 - Mouse Pad Steelseries Qck+/Glorious XL White  - Displays Acer XF240H 144Hz

 

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