gpu overclock lowering my fps

[mightymc]

ok so i was following a youtube tutorial on overclocking my gpu so i was slowly increasing my core clock and my mem clock while running heaven until it crashed then i would lower the clocks so i didnt freeze so i kept doing this back and forth trying to fin the perfect clock after i found it i was getting 60-110 fps on heaven after that i saved it restarted my computor then destiny 2 the game i wanted to play wasnt donloading i dont think that was related though so i restarted it again and it loaded but i was hiting 0-30 fps in the menu i normaly hit 100-200 in the menu so i tried to load into the actual game but it wouldnt so i checked it on csgo my norm fps 144-300 i was hitting 60-130 i had reset all my overclocks and tried again but nothing changed before i did all of this i downloaded aorus civ cos i was upping my fan speeds i was using msi afterburner to oc my gpu btw the exact gpu is the palit rtx 3060 storm x idk how to fix it can anyone help please i tried ddu and reinstalling drivers didnt work

 

[Zmimgo]

Very normal. Modern GPUs are smart and can dynamically tune their power usage and clocks and by extent - the temprature.

 

So basically the better cooling capacity the higher clock speeds.

 

I would reset everything and just stick with that - OCing would only apply for anything that has as much or more cooling capacity as something as a Strix. Watercooling and LN2 would be the most obious reasons for overclocking.

[Mando772004]

13 minutes ago, mightymc said:

ok so i was following a youtube tutorial on overclocking my gpu so i was slowly increasing my core clock and my mem clock while running heaven until it crashed then i would lower the clocks so i didnt freeze so i kept doing this back and forth trying to fin the perfect clock after i found it i was getting 60-110 fps on heaven after that i saved it restarted my computor then destiny 2 the game i wanted to play wasnt donloading i dont think that was related though so i restarted it again and it loaded but i was hiting 0-30 fps in the menu i normaly hit 100-200 in the menu so i tried to load into the actual game but it wouldnt so i checked it on csgo my norm fps 144-300 i was hitting 60-130 i had reset all my overclocks and tried again but nothing changed before i did all of this i downloaded aorus civ cos i was upping my fan speeds i was using msi afterburner to oc my gpu btw the exact gpu is the palit rtx 3060 storm x idk how to fix it can anyone help please

a 3060 is very good for any game, why overclock in the first place? also you're probably getting lower frames cuz the OC is unstable

[mightymc]

destiny 2 is not an easy game to run i was hitting frames worse than people with a worse gpu and he said he oc so i gave it a try like the idiot i am 

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Use ddu and reinstall drivers

[LIGISTX]

2 hours ago, mightymc said:

ok so i was following a youtube tutorial on overclocking my gpu so i was slowly increasing my core clock and my mem clock while running heaven until it crashed then i would lower the clocks so i didnt freeze so i kept doing this back and forth trying to fin the perfect clock after i found it i was getting 60-110 fps on heaven after that i saved it restarted my computor then destiny 2 the game i wanted to play wasnt donloading i dont think that was related though so i restarted it again and it loaded but i was hiting 0-30 fps in the menu i normaly hit 100-200 in the menu so i tried to load into the actual game but it wouldnt so i checked it on csgo my norm fps 144-300 i was hitting 60-130 i had reset all my overclocks and tried again but nothing changed before i did all of this i downloaded aorus civ cos i was upping my fan speeds i was using msi afterburner to oc my gpu btw the exact gpu is the palit rtx 3060 storm x idk how to fix it can anyone help please

Modern GPU’s employ a lot a memory error correction. So just because it’s stable doesn’t mean it’s faster. 
 

If you push the memory too far, it will dynamically increase timings to help stabilize it, AND it will increase the amount of error correction needed which has a performance penalty. This is why you need to test before and after OC’s to see if things actually improved. Try testing with lower GPU memory speeds and see if performance returns. That won’t fix your current issues though, so do as others said use use DDU (display driver uninstaller) and remove old drivers and reinstall. Then…. Overclock the GPU the correct way, but just going for max and turning it back down, you have to actually check and validate performance improvements. 

[Noah0302]

2 hours ago, InfernalClaw said:

a 3060 is very good for any game, why overclock in the first place? also you're probably getting lower frames cuz the OC is unstable

Well, me OCing my 3090 on the first day I got it would beg to differ

 

If you do multiple game benchmarks before and after OC with frametime comparison, you can get a whole lot more FPS.

I got about 5-10% more performance in most games OCing my GPU like that.

[Mando772004]

18 minutes ago, Noah0302 said:

Well, me OCing my 3090 on the first day I got it would beg to differ

 

If you do multiple game benchmarks before and after OC with frametime comparison, you can get a whole lot more FPS.

I got about 5-10% more performance in most games OCing my GPU like that.

i never said it doesnt give you better performance, but why do so? unless you want high scores in 3dmark, then sure go for it

[Ebony Falcon]

Everyone saying don’t oc sorry but my 2080ti ftw3 gets me 15 percent more performance 

2115mhz average and 8200mhz memory 

[Noah0302]

On 8/23/2021 at 9:14 AM, InfernalClaw said:

i never said it doesnt give you better performance, but why do so? unless you want high scores in 3dmark, then sure go for it

Playing games at 1440p max settings 165hz.

A lot of games actually dip below 165FPS at max, even with a 3090.
In some cases it does make sense

[Mando772004]

1 hour ago, Noah0302 said:

Playing games at 1440p max settings 165hz.

A lot of games actually dip below 165FPS at max, even with a 3090.
In some cases it does make sense

a way simpler solution in my opinion is getting a gsync/freesync monitor. with these you could be running at say 120 fps instead of 165 and itll still feel smooth. however yes itll cost you but in my opinion its better than having an unstable overclock