How do I validate an "extreme" overclock

monkeyman5943 · February 19, 2014

my current rig is an intel 4670k

msi z87-GD65 Gaming

Asus HD7950 DirectCuII V2

Corsair HX 750 PSU

patriot memmory at 1600Mhz

Ok now the story goes I overclocked my 7950 to the max afterburner would do which was core clock of 1100 Mhz and I can't remember what the stock OC on the memory was but was at the max at that point. I got curious. I decided to go beyond the limits. I decided to overclock to 1440 Mhz on the core clock, which happens the resolution of my monitor ^-^. I also am putting the mem clock at 1500Mhz. The Voltage is at 1275 mV.

This doesn't work quite like i thought it would. it likes to idle at around 1100 Mhz on core (I am only focusing on the core clock for now. The memory I might focus on later if I get bored). After I run it slowly climbs in clock speed. The highest I have seen it go is 1538 Mhz playing tomb raider. It is late in the night so I haven't tested it extensively and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on how to validate this overclock.