New to overclocking- 980 ti

[Lordofstags]

Hello, 

      I recently did a small overclock to my CPU before upgrading and it did marvels for my i7-4790k. I've never done the process with a GPU and was wondering about if it's safe to do in an air cooled system. Unfamiliar waters here so I know there's always an inherent risk, but I don't know if it's at the level that this overclock will fry my card in a year or something crazy. Just trying to gauge how taxing it will be. I don't want to be looking for a card in this climate; damn scalpers. Thanks for taking the time for my newbie questions/ concerns and if you have any overclocking tips much appreciated.

 

New System Specs

i5-12600K

MSI 980 ti gaming 6g golden edition

ROG STRIX Z690-A 

G.SKILL 32GB 2X16 D4 3600

BEQUIET DARK ROCK PRO 4 COOLER

CORSAIR RMX750X FM 80+G ATX PSU

 

Thanks for your time,

Justin

 

[LIGISTX]

1 minute ago, Lordofstags said:

Hello, 

      I recently did a small overclock to my CPU before upgrading and it did marvels for my i7-4790k. I've never done the process with a GPU and was wondering about if it's safe to do in an air cooled system. Unfamiliar waters here so I know there's always an inherent risk, but I don't know if it's at the level that this overclock will fry my card in a year or something crazy. Just trying to gauge how taxing it will be. I don't want to be looking for a card in this climate; damn scalpers. Thanks for taking the time for my newbie questions/ concerns and if you have any overclocking tips much appreciated.

 

New System Specs

i5-12600K

MSI 980 ti gaming 6g golden edition

ROG STRIX Z690-A 

G.SKILL 32GB 2X16 D4 3600

BEQUIET DARK ROCK PRO 4 COOLER

CORSAIR RMX750X FM 80+G ATX PSU

 

Thanks for your time,

Justin

 

Is google some YouTube videos for how to use afterburner or EVGA precision. It’s very simple. All you really need to do is the auto OC in EVGA precision (is what I use these days) and it will set voltage curves automatically. It gets ridiculously close to what someone spending an hour would be able to get, my 2080 comes within 1 boost bin of what I can do myself with a lot of work…

 

Just up the temp target, up the power limit to max, and do the auto OC in precision. And then for RAM once GPU clock is good, increase it 100Mhz at a time monitoring performance and stability. Typically you will end up losing performance before it becomes unstable or you get artifacting due to GPU’s memory error correction. It will do error correction to keep it stable, but this reduces latencies so you start losing performance; this is why you have to actually test to make sure things are not getting slower or starting the same. Basically increase 100Mhz at a time until FPS stops going up.

[HQuan]

Overclocking GPU is more more easier than GPU. In case anything goes wrong, the system will likely not shutdown, but instead not display image, 

There's third party program that let you overclocking it. But I better recommend you to watch some Youtube video for further information. I can't explain it here.

[RONOTHAN##]

15 minutes ago, Lordofstags said:

if it's safe to do in an air cooled system.

Completely safe. Unless you do things like vBIOS flashing, GPU overclocking is completely safe, with the biggest risk being that you have to go into safe mode and uninstall your overclocking utility.

17 minutes ago, Lordofstags said:

if it's at the level that this overclock will fry my card in a year or something crazy.

Only if you do something crazy and flash the vBIOS.

 

To do it, first install a stress test. Heaven and Furmark are two big ones. Then, install a program like MSI Afterburner in order to overclock the card. Increase the core clock by 25MHz and test for stability. If it crashes/artifacts, lower it. If it's stable, increase it by 25. Repeat. Do the same thing with memory, but increase by 50MHz at a time. Once you think it's good, run a bunch of games to verify that the card is stable. If it's not, tweak the numbers until it's stable

[thrasher_565]

26 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Completely safe. Unless you do things like vBIOS flashing, GPU overclocking is completely safe, with the biggest risk being that you have to go into safe mode and uninstall your overclocking utility.

Only if you do something crazy and flash the vBIOS.

 

To do it, first install a stress test. Heaven and Furmark are two big ones. Then, install a program like MSI Afterburner in order to overclock the card. Increase the core clock by 25MHz and test for stability. If it crashes/artifacts, lower it. If it's stable, increase it by 25. Repeat. Do the same thing with memory, but increase by 50MHz at a time. Once you think it's good, run a bunch of games to verify that the card is stable. If it's not, tweak the numbers until it's stable

i herd Furmark can destroy your gpu?

[Dimondminer11]

I mean you CAN overclock a GPU and it is much easier than overclocking a GPU but on a 980 Ti (speaking from experience here) they don't really overclock that high. You'd be looking at maybe 200mhz on core max and 300mhz on mem.

Edit: which would give you maybe 4%-6% more performance

[Brooksie359]

58 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Completely safe. Unless you do things like vBIOS flashing, GPU overclocking is completely safe, with the biggest risk being that you have to go into safe mode and uninstall your overclocking utility.

Only if you do something crazy and flash the vBIOS.

 

To do it, first install a stress test. Heaven and Furmark are two big ones. Then, install a program like MSI Afterburner in order to overclock the card. Increase the core clock by 25MHz and test for stability. If it crashes/artifacts, lower it. If it's stable, increase it by 25. Repeat. Do the same thing with memory, but increase by 50MHz at a time. Once you think it's good, run a bunch of games to verify that the card is stable. If it's not, tweak the numbers until it's stable

I wouldn't say it's completely safe as overclocking memory can cause issues even when you reverse the overclock. Then again that is if you get super aggressive with the memory overclock. 

[RONOTHAN##]

36 minutes ago, thrasher_565 said:

i herd Furmark can destroy your gpu?

With old cards, yes, but with any card made in the past decade, they have protections in place to make it so it doesn't fry. 

[Lordofstags]

Alright freaking out a little bit tried to do as I was told an now my screen looks like so. Any ideas?

 

[-rascal-]

14 minutes ago, Lordofstags said:

Alright freaking out a little bit tried to do as I was told an now my screen looks like so. Any ideas?

 

 

Unstable / too aggressive overclock.

Restore to defaults, or dial the overclock back a bit, and try again.

[Lordofstags]

Sorry but how do I do that?

 

[Lordofstags]

It comes up as 0 for all the metrics

 

[Lordofstags]

Well this is truly horrible I think this killed my graphics card. Not safe at all

 

[HQuan]

1 hour ago, Lordofstags said:

Alright freaking out a little bit tried to do as I was told an now my screen looks like so. Any ideas?

 

 

 

You overclock it tooooooo much. Please reduce the clock/voltage until it disappear.

[Lordofstags]

How and where do I do that please

 

[Lordofstags]

GPU is officially borked and dead. What perfect timing. For sure never overclocking a GPU again

[Montana One-Six]

I have been running a 980ti for years with an OC in my old system. It still works perfectly fine. A friend is using it in is racing sim.

 

Was it your card or did you buy it?

How was it used before you tried overclocking?

What 980ti was it exactly?

 

If I had to guess you either pushed it way too hard from the get go or the card was near it's end anyway (because of how it was used prior) and the OC just pushed it there.