Overclocking memory for Ethereum mining. Is It safe?

[Hullwood2]

So I bought an RTX 2060 Ventus OC around the middle of 2020 and wanted to try Ethereum mining for fun and to test my OC abilities. I found that decreasing the core clock and increasing the mem clock allowed for some insane hashrates. I was getting 27 mh/s with stock settings. Then when moving up to +1300 mem and -502 core I got 33.5 mh/s. If I wanted to leave my rig mining overnight would it be safe to leave the clocks that high on the memory? Would it overheat?

[Daniel Z.]

You should be fine, but that is pretty high.

[Hullwood2]

1 minute ago, Daniel Z. said:

You should be fine, but that is pretty high.

How high would you recommend for a balance of performance and... not breaking or stressing the card too much?

[Mick Naughty]

Did you check how high it needed to be to achieve that rate? Can prolly be a lot lower. 
Stress is stress, all that matters are the temps. If the card doesn’t have probes, prolly just best to go off the core temp and under volt. 

[Czargasm]

You should also (while watching the hash rate) lower your power limit percent in afterburner. You should be able to get it under 80% before your hash rate starts to drop.

 

I have done this on 5 different GPUs and they can all come way down below 100% without losing hash rate.

 

The star was my 5500 XT in my plex machine. 100% it was using like 103 W at stock. I turned it allllll the way down and now it uses 62 watts to do the same.

 

Nvidia cards don't seem to do as well but still power and heat to be saved.