Msi 770 ligthning overclock. HELP

[why231]

Hey i just got my new 770 lighthning, and i want to overclock it. i was thinking about using msi afterburner. idon't want to overclcok alot, but a little bit.

and if you guys have some safe overclocks for this card pleas share

Thanks.

[dragosudeki]

Just go up by a bit then unigine valley it or something. If you don't see artifacts you can keep push it further and continue until you do. And then if you would to continue pushing you can increase voltage a bit to go with that.

[why231]

Just go up by a bit then unigine valley it or something. If you don't see artifacts you can keep push it further and continue until you do. And then if you would to continue pushing you can increase voltage a bit to go with that.

What are artifacts? it has been a while since i have heard about that.

[dragosudeki]

Pretty much anything that does not look right (wrong colour and such). Trust me, you should be able to notice them.

[TNA_LoL]

Generally speaking, unless you mess with voltage you won't kill a card.  You'll either lose the driver (flashes black and crashes but recovers), get artifacts, weird color screens w/ or w/o lines.  All this means is, not enough voltage/power to run the frequency so it's unable to display the picture.  While you shouldn't be doing this 100 times a day, it doesn't hurt your card.  GPU manufactures have built it so many fail safes to avoid people frying cards, UNLESS you start to overvolt (and far) or put a custom bios on it.  You only need to worry about temperature (below 85*C while the most intense gaming is preferred) and stability in all your games.

[lachyman]

It's almost guaranteed your card is an OC beast, just turn up the core clock in smaller increments with Valley runs in between. When you lose stability, roll back to the perivous OC or start messing with voltage. I wouldn't care about memory OC.