Will it die?

[CowsGoRoar]

Pls no h8, I moved the slider on my GPU Clock Tool for my GTX 770 to 1260 MHz, and it crashed. Will it die any sooner?

And how fast did it eat up? Will a PC not crash if it stays cool?

I only moved the MHz slider, I don't think I moved the voltage.

[DoubleY]

I doubt you did anything bad to it. Voltage is what REALLY kills a GPU (even then, it's still minuscule) 

 

If you did hurt it, you might have reduced it's 3-10year life span by about 3 days

[jscho]

It just means that the card either:
1: The card wasn't able to hit x clock speed and crashed
or
2: The card got too hot to be comfortable and crashed/shut the PC down to prevent any damage from occuring.

The cards will crash/shut down to protect themselves, they won't keep going (like they used to many years ago) and burn themselves out.

Drag the slider back down and overclock and steadily raise the clock.
 

[CowsGoRoar]

I doubt you did anything bad to it. Voltage is what REALLY kills a GPU (even then, it's still minuscule) 

 

If you did hurt it, you might have reduced it's 3-10year life span by about 3 days

Should I underclock it to the Ref. cooled speed? I don't find OCing very beneficial anyway.

[CowsGoRoar]

It just means that the card either:

1: The card wasn't able to hit x clock speed and crashed

or

2: The card got too hot to be comfortable and crashed/shut the PC down to prevent any damage from occuring.

The cards will crash/shut down to protect themselves, they won't keep going (like they used to many years ago) and burn themselves out.

Drag the slider back down and overclock and steadily raise the clock.

 

Once I hit "Save", it crashed so probably #1.

#2 usually happens when you're stress testing it and then it crashes.

[DoubleY]

Should I underclock it to the Ref. cooled speed? I don't find OCing very beneficial anyway.

If you don't think the performance increase is worth it, go ahead and return to stock speeds. I personally keep my GTX 780 at stock speeds even though it's a decent overclocker. I too don't care about the performance gains of overclocking  

[CowsGoRoar]

I'm slowly pulling the slider, 3 MHz at a time, and blasting the fan to 50%.

[CowsGoRoar]

If you don't think the performance increase is worth it, go ahead and return to stock speeds. I personally keep my GTX 780 at stock speeds even though it's a decent overclocker. I too don't care about the performance gains of overclocking

It's a ASUS GTX 770 DCU II OC Edition, clocked at 1110 MHz.

[Moosie]

Don't worry about the question. It's not a stupid one, and there's probably 100 other people that have wondered the same thing but never asked. Before you learn something, you don't know it. Crazy, right?

As for whether or not it's going to die sooner: no. Unless you're running it super high and it's getting crazy hot consistently, I wouldn't worry about it. Trial and error is part of overclocking, and cards shut down for various reasons to protect themselves when you haven't gotten a stable overclock. If every time a card failed a benchmark it lost a year of life, no one would even try.

And as TheDoubleYGamer said, voltage is what really fries things, so you're fine. You likely lost less life from the failed overclock than you consumed running the card to set it up.

[Moosie]

It's a ASUS GTX 770 DCU II OC Edition, clocked at 1110 MHz.

That's a pretty high stock clock. You could probably get a little more out of it, but it might not even be worth it. It might be like 50MHz.

[CowsGoRoar]

Thanks to all of you for your help. Time to grab a barrel of LN2 and stress it at 6969 MHz. 

[helping]

rather poor OC, up your voltage?

 

Don't worry about it, just raise the voltage.

 

These cards and the software are literally screw up proof. You will have to try to kill a 770. 

[Guest Generallee]

but did you die ?