Overclocking, General Radeon Setting and Stability question.

[jk441]

So have a weird problem going on right now, and was wandering if some one could help me out with some Qs.

 

Try to keep it short, I was able to overclock my 6700xt with various changes to my min/max clocks, undervolting, vram timing (fast mode) and clock speed to a state where I thought it was stable, as it ran for a few weeks playing games (Genshin, Wildlands, the Long Dark) without any issues. Today I, for some dumb reason, went into the AMD Radeon S/W and decided what else I can tinker around and changed 2 settings:

• Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
• Radeon Boost (RB)

I have no idea y I turned VSR on, since I always usually have those kind of "super/over scaling resolution" stuff off, whether nvidia or amd, but I think my mind just auto-piloted to a "super" setting late at night.

As for RB I did wanted to give it a try, since I did want better frame rate/smoothness in Wildlands. I load up Wildlands and lo-and behold. HARD CRASH (I needed to restart the pc)

 

I tinkered around with my overclock setting for two, or three trys and decided things weren't worth, and I was pretty scared at this point, so turned both VSR, and RB off and went back to my original OC setting, and went to load Wildlands and well... another crash. I even change my setting to a minimalistic OC setting, where I only changed a few settings (clock setting+undervolt+Vram Fast Timing) but even that crashed.

For now I reverted into only having the Power Limit setting to max, and left everything be "stock" since I am scared to touch anything, but I'm now getting some micro stutters even in a game like Genshin, which isn't that hard to run.

 

Have I some how managed to 'damage' my card during this fiasco, or would it be more of stressing my GPU too much so it's acting weird?

Would I be able to re-use my old OC setting where everything was seemingly stable before my whole VSR/RB change fiasco, or would I need to re-overclock and try new settings?

Can I, and is it, even safe to try and re-attempt to over clock at all now?

 

Right now, it's late for me (past 11.30pm in NZ), so if there's any other details you guys might need to help me out I'll answer them in the morning.