help! Overclocking gone bad?

raghav_xd · August 23, 2020

system specs- ryzen 2600 4.2ghz, rtx 2060 6gb,8x2 3200mhz,nvme ssd

On heaven benchmark i used to get 113fps , i oc'd my card without increasing power and got +70 oc on core clock and +800 on memory clock boosting my average fps to 127 from 113.

Was playing around with afterburner and i accidentally put too much memory oc and the pc went into boot loop because afterburner was selected to start with windows ,so as soon as i boot into main screen the pc used to crash again.

Fixed it by going into safe mode and uninstalling the afterburner and installing it again after booting into normal mode.

Since this happened i've been noticing low performance on all the gpu related stuff.i've been brainstorming the shit out of it and finally noticed that without any oc on stock settings am getting same 113 fps score but when i apply oc the score only goes up to 115 or even dips down to 110.

Now 15fps is not much but its causing stability issues when gaming.

I reinstalled afterburner ,also reinstalled nvidia drivers with ddu but nothing seems to fix it ,i can see oc settings on afterburner OSD but i dont think its applying it to card or there is some conflict in software.

i reset the system last night without deleting personal files and using local windows image,but to my surprise it didnt changed anything and am getting same results. after reset all latest drivers were already installed automatically.

stability issues are as follows; 99% gpu usage in all tests with temps under 70 degree,cpu never reached 50% usage+

1) 3d mark dx 12 score went down from 7.5k to 7k, cpu score is same as before but gpu score is down.

2) cod modern warfare works fine 144fps but when i switch to warzone i cant even maintain 60fps on lowest settings 1080p even dips to 35fps, earlier i used to maintain 100-120 fps at all times in warzone. (my friend with i3 and rx580 got 60fps stable)

3) avengers beta even on medium settings i couldnt maintain stable 45fps (my friend with i3 and rx580 got 60fps stable)

4) horizon zero dawn cant even maintain stable 45fps on lowest settings(my friend with i3 and rx580 got 60fps stable high+ultra settings)

when i check results on youtube with same hardware as me , i see others have 30-70% better fps than me , ran sfc scanow and malware bytes and didnt found any problem.

these instabilities came with my oc fail+windows 2004 update , before my system was working normal.

things to note; in some games my pc is working normal as it should.

i have downloaded windows 10 on my pendrive and am ready to install it again by completely wiping all data. just here to check if anyone knows any other work arounds?it will save me alot of trouble and hundreds of gb's of download .

Bombastinator · August 23, 2020

So you overclocked a machine to the gills, went too far, and something crashed. You removed one of the overclocks but are still having problems. I suggest removing ALL of the overclocks and see if there are still problems. Reset the CMOS. Revert everything to stock. If there are still problems you may have broken something.

raghav_xd · August 23, 2020

7 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

So you overclocked a machine to the gills, went too far, and something crashed. You removed one of the overclocks but are still having problems. I suggest removing ALL of the overclocks and see if there are still problems. Reset the CMOS. Revert everything to stock. If there are still problems you may have broken something.

problem is i cant restore everything to stock as 10 days have past and windows doesnt allows us to roll back to old updates. i have intuition the problem is 2004 update itself.