Overclocking and the stability.

[im_not_200iq]

I'm new to overclocking and I have an AMD Radeon r7 200series.

I tried overclocking it but it had some stability issues, not full on bsod, but more like graphical glitches in Minecraft.

The thermal's aren't an issue.

Are there just stability issues with overclocking on some cards?

Or could it maybe be some thermal stuff, I get like 80 degrees.

I really don't know so any help would be much appreciated.

[YoungBlade]

Stability issues are going to happen with overclocking if you push the card too far. If you go way too far, you'll get a full-on system crash. If you go a little too far, you'll get some glitches. You just need to dial it back a bit - try dropping 10 MHz and see if the glitches go away.

 

When you're overclocking, you should have a benchmark application like Heaven running in windowed mode while you're trying out the numbers. Don't start the benchmark itself, just let the visuals play - they'll loop endlessly. If the benchmark causes issues, you know you've gone too far, and need to dial it back a bit.

 

But even if the benchmark is fine, it doesn't prove that you're stable. The only way to fully test stability is to run the card in all the situations you typically use it in. If you find problems, lower the frequency until the problems go away. And even if you think it's stable, a new application might present a problem.

 

For my card, I'm able to do +125 MHz and have it be stable in all the games I play, but at even just 5 more, +130 MHz, I'll crash at random points when playing the game Control. So I know that +130 MHz is not truly stable, even though I can run Heaven or Kombustor or even some other games like Minecraft and have no problems.

[im_not_200iq]

3 minutes ago, YoungBlade said:

Stability issues are going to happen with overclocking if you push the card too far. If you go way too far, you'll get a full-on system crash. If you go a little too far, you'll get some glitches. You just need to dial it back a bit - try dropping 10 MHz and see if the glitches go away.

 

When you're overclocking, you should have a benchmark application like Heaven running in windowed mode while you're trying out the numbers. Don't start the benchmark itself, just let the visuals play - they'll loop endlessly. If the benchmark causes issues, you know you've gone too far, and need to dial it back a bit.

 

But even if the benchmark is fine, it doesn't prove that you're stable. The only way to fully test stability is to run the card in all the situations you typically use it in. If you find problems, lower the frequency until the problems go away. And even if you think it's stable, a new application might present a problem.

 

For my card, I'm able to do +125 MHz and have it be stable in all the games I play, but at even just 5 more, +130 MHz, I'll crash at random points when playing the game Control. So I know that +130 MHz is not truly stable, even though I can run Heaven or Kombustor or even some other games like Minecraft and have no problems.

Thanks, I really appreciate the help.