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Help Overclocking An Xfx 7870

fallingpizza11
By fallingpizza11
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Hey I got an xfx 7870 and just found out that it is voltage locked, is there any other possoble way I could OC it even with the voltage locked?

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Use a program like MSI Afterburner to push your core/mem in baby step of 5-10mhz at most, see where you land on default voltage. I believe even with the voltage locked, it can be OC'ed, just not very high I guess.

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It's one of the reasons I stopped recommending XFX cards.
Use MSI Afterburner and overclock on the stock voltage, you can also to try and dig up some vBIOS profiles for your card that have a higher default voltage.

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