Overclocking issues with my MSI RTX 3090

[Scott103]

Hi all,

 

I've been trying to overclock my MSI RTX 3090 to have higher FPS in Warzone using MSI Afterburner.

 

First off, I've been unable to increase the power limit % to anything higher than 100%. I have read things about it and it seems like it could be locked in the BIOS (for a potentially valid reason), so I guess I shouldn't mess with it.

 

Also, I have been unable to increase the core clock to anything higher than 60MHz with my memory clocks set to +0MHz for Warzone otherwise the game crashes. I've read that the game is pretty sensitive so crashes with an overclocked GPU can be frequent, however I have been reading a lot of threads with people successfully overclocking their 3090 (not MSI) to easily reach values like Core clock +200 and Memory clock +400 and even higher and experiencing no crashes in Warzone.

 

Do you guys think it is related to the fact that I cant increase my power limit? Is there a way for me to safely overclock my GPU?

[Kilrah]

Which MSI card is it? If it's got a factory overclock it's normal to not go much higher than 50 or so. If it's a low end card it could also have a chip that binned low and can't do more.

Overclock is out of spec, every single unit will behave differently.