Cannot overclock-Games crash.

[Crispy Donut]

So, I recently tried to overclock my GPU. Playing Modern warfare I noticed I was dropping down to 50-60 frames when playing, which was weird. I have a 2080 Super, and I didn't know what was going on. I used MSI Afterburner to try and raise those frames, but whenever I follow the stress test and everything seems fine, I crash my games. Im just confused on what I need to do in order to get more frames. The picture I'm showing is without any games running. Please help, and Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[Revioli]

There's really not much else to say, other than lower the core until it doesn't crash anymore.

[Mark Kaine]

Try core +50 memory +200, if it still crashes lower core in steps of 5 or 10 do *not* put it higher lol.

 

If its not crashing do the opposite +5 steps on the core, until it crashes,  then -5 and you're good. 

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving 2 u 2!

[jones177]

Benches can usually handle more of an overclock.

My FTW3 Ultra 2080 ti could do +175 in Fire Strike, +150 in Time Spy but all I could do in games it +117. For RT games it was +110. 

 

You can usually do more with memory so my 2080 tis did +800 for games and +1100 for benches.

I started with +200 and went up from there. +1100 would heat soak the card without fans at 100% but +800 was good even with the default fan curve.

 

To monitor vram temps I used GPUZ/sensors.

 

 

[Mark Kaine]

10 minutes ago, jones177 said:

Benches can usually handle more of an overclock.

My FTW3 Ultra 2080 ti could do +175 in Fire Strike, +150 in Time Spy but all I could do in games it +117. For RT games it was +110. 

 

Honestly its lottery... neither my 1050ti 1060 or 1070 did over +50, +75 on core (the 1050ti did maybe 100...)

 

I think similar with the 3070... but i don't touch these sliders,  just undervolt with a custom voltage curve, 2010mhz all day , that's 195mhz above default "boost clock"... i can do 2030 for benchmarks or low usage stuff like old games, but its not stable... also p sure 2010mhz gives better performance. 

[jones177]

5 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

Honestly its lottery... neither my 1050ti 1060 or 1070 did over +50, +75 on core (the 1050ti did maybe 100...)

 

I think similar with the 3070... but i don't touch these sliders,  just undervolt with a custom voltage curve, 2010mhz all day , that's 195mhz above default "boost clock"... i can do 2030 for benchmarks or low usage stuff like old games, but its not stable... also p sure 2010mhz gives better performance. 

The 10 series was a bit different for me. 

My EVGA 1080 ti SCs would only do +50 in a bench and only stock in a game.  I had 3 of them and they were all the same. 

 

The 20 series were lots of fun and +117 on a FTW3 Ultra 2080 ti was 2040mhz with +150 at 2115mhz.  At that a 3080 was not an upgrade since stock was only 10 frames away.

 

I have not used overclocks in games with the 30 series but in a benches it is memory that can go high so my FTW3 Does +150 on the cores and +1400 on memory. 

 

I only needed an overclock on RT titles like Control with the 2080 ti and I have not used RT in a game since. 

 

[dilpickle]

Every game handles overclocking differently. This is why the overclocking apps let you have multiple profiles.