1st Time Overclocking my 7900 GRE but I cant Find Any Video with MSI Afterburner

[FCBoi]

1st Time Overclocking my 7900 GRE but I cant Find Any Video with MSI Afterburner! 

 

If you say that I just use the adrenaline, it has the annoying thing that always reset to a default setting every now and then. I wanna find a tutorial but on a MSI Afterburner but cant find any. Any suggestions?

 

My GPU is a AMD RX 7900 GRE Gigabyte OC Edition

 

 

[hollyh88]

9 hours ago, FCBoi said:

1st Time Overclocking my 7900 GRE but I cant Find Any Video with MSI Afterburner! 

 

If you say that I just use the adrenaline, it has the annoying thing that always reset to a default setting every now and then. I wanna find a tutorial but on a MSI Afterburner but cant find any. Any suggestions?

 

My GPU is a AMD RX 7900 GRE Gigabyte OC Edition

 

 

it resets to default because your oc is unstable, it does this if it finds an issue. it no longer does this if it is stable. At least it shouldnt.
I have the same oc on my 9070xt now for about 2 weeks and it hasnt once reset itself.

There is 0 reason to use afterburner unless it is for a more detailed look in an overlay. else, simply use the radeon software. and find a better more stable setting. 

[Salted Spinach]

Core offset -100mV

Power limit 115%

Memory OC to 2600Mhz

 

Do these one at a time and dial back if you encounter instability or crash.

 

Overall you should see a substantial boost in performance

[Ottoman420]

6 hours ago, hollyh88 said:

it resets to default because your oc is unstable, it does this if it finds an issue. it no longer does this if it is stable. At least it shouldnt.
I have the same oc on my 9070xt now for about 2 weeks and it hasnt once reset itself.

There is 0 reason to use afterburner unless it is for a more detailed look in an overlay. else, simply use the radeon software. and find a better more stable setting. 

thats not what OP is asking imo.

 

I have a 7800xt any oc i dial in the adrenline software however small (settings i have heavily benchmarked or stress tested) or even if its just a custom fan curve gets wiped out when the AMD drivers time out and reset and you have to re input the same settings over and over again every couple weeks.

 

TBH ive never saved a profile coz im lazy like that im wondering if its time i do.

 

Anyway sorry if im wrong about what OP is asking but i think they are asking if their is a way to use afterburner or another software to have no driver timeout issues.

 

 

 

[FCBoi]

9 hours ago, hollyh88 said:

it resets to default because your oc is unstable, it does this if it finds an issue. it no longer does this if it is stable. At least it shouldnt.
I have the same oc on my 9070xt now for about 2 weeks and it hasnt once reset itself.

There is 0 reason to use afterburner unless it is for a more detailed look in an overlay. else, simply use the radeon software. and find a better more stable setting. 

I just use the one click memory OC and even if its not any OC, Just adjustment on the settings, it always goes back to default 

 

And I cant fix it and its annoying 

[FCBoi]

3 hours ago, Ottoman420 said:

thats not what OP is asking imo.

 

I have a 7800xt any oc i dial in the adrenline software however small (settings i have heavily benchmarked or stress tested) or even if its just a custom fan curve gets wiped out when the AMD drivers time out and reset and you have to re input the same settings over and over again every couple weeks.

 

TBH ive never saved a profile coz im lazy like that im wondering if its time i do.

 

Anyway sorry if im wrong about what OP is asking but i think they are asking if their is a way to use afterburner or another software to have no driver timeout issues.

 

 

 

Yeah I wanna use the MSI AB cuz adrenaline aint saving any shit that I tune.

[FCBoi]

8 hours ago, Salted Spinach said:

Core offset -100mV

Power limit 115%

Memory OC to 2600Mhz

 

Do these one at a time and dial back if you encounter instability or crash.

 

Overall you should see a substantial boost in performance

Okay thanks! I will try these later. What benchmark software is great? I mainly game on CS2 which has a benchmark workshop or 3DMark Time Spy? 

[FCBoi]

I will update yall later or some other day on how well will my overclock goes

[Salted Spinach]

4 hours ago, FCBoi said:

What benchmark software is great? I mainly game on CS2 which has a benchmark workshop or 3DMark Time Spy? 

Time Spy will do.

 

I don't think CS2 is appropriate as it is unlikely to push the GPU to its limits, is known to be CPU freuquency sensitive and in actual gameplay the CPU might be a bottleneck.

 

VRAM intensive games will really flesh out the performance increase from the memory OC

[hollyh88]

12 hours ago, Ottoman420 said:

thats not what OP is asking imo.

 

I have a 7800xt any oc i dial in the adrenline software however small (settings i have heavily benchmarked or stress tested) or even if its just a custom fan curve gets wiped out when the AMD drivers time out and reset and you have to re input the same settings over and over again every couple weeks.

 

TBH ive never saved a profile coz im lazy like that im wondering if its time i do.

 

Anyway sorry if im wrong about what OP is asking but i think they are asking if their is a way to use afterburner or another software to have no driver timeout issues.

 

 

 

op wants to use afterburner because it isnt saving his settings, im telling that it doesnt do that because if it detects instabilities it will reset itself every time the app is closed and or your pc restarts to avoid issues, so im simply explaining that the reason its doing that is because it isnt stable. the driver times out if there is an issue with what you did, i havent had it crash for no reason yet. only when i tweaked an oc that went to far. 

saving a profile is also smart to do yes if you do find a stable setting. it will continuously boot that up. 

 

 

8 hours ago, FCBoi said:

I just use the one click memory OC and even if its not any OC, Just adjustment on the settings, it always goes back to default 

And I cant fix it and its annoying 

it is weird that it even does it during that, are you using a beta driver? 
could be that a simple reinstall of the driver will fix your issues,

else you can use afterburner, just keep in mind that its not officially supported and it can cause issues as well. I used it all the time when i had my nvidia gpus in the system, but with amd there really is no need. 

as for benchmarking, artificial ones are good but its better if you seek to test stability  to just use furmark. let it run for 20-30 minutes or an hour if you got other stuff to do. benchmarks like timespy or steel nomad are more for seeing how high you score artificially than to test performance. most games tend to see higher performance increases then such benchmarks.

for example, stock i get around 72 fps, with oc i get 79 in steel nomad, while in cyberpunk i get an increase of 15-20 fps. 

[FCBoi]

Okay guys update, there was only 1 setting that was stable enough, -20mv, 2350mhz and +5%. The previous score of my Timespy was around 22300. After the OC it was around 23500+! GPU intensive games that I tried such as Space Marine 2 and Ready or not was hovering around 200-220+ FPS that was previously below 200 FPS! 

But since this was my 1st manual overclock, I'm wondering, why are there other RX 7900 GRE that can be pushed up to 2600mhz or +15% on power and such without crashing? I mean I am happy cuz a huge FPS Gain but I'm wondering why my GPU are far from others in terms of OC? 

 

Edit: Should I try -30mv, 2375mhz and +6% with +10MHz on Core Clock Offset? 

 

anyways, thanks yall! 

[Salted Spinach]

17 hours ago, FCBoi said:

...there was only 1 setting that was stable enough, -20mv, 2350mhz and +5%...

Did you a manage to OC the memory to 2600Mhz?

 

I would rather limit the core boost to 2250Mhz, max out the power limit, and attempt a bigger undervolt.

 

Overclocking the core usually only result in minimal gains and it reduces the undervolt you can apply without crashing

[FCBoi]

On 4/17/2025 at 1:50 AM, Salted Spinach said:

Did you a manage to OC the memory to 2600Mhz?

 

I would rather limit the core boost to 2250Mhz, max out the power limit, and attempt a bigger undervolt.

 

Overclocking the core usually only result in minimal gains and it reduces the undervolt you can apply without crashing

I did hit 2600mhz and all but only at time spy. Any other game/benchmark always crashes out 

 

[Salted Spinach]

5 hours ago, FCBoi said:

I did hit 2600mhz and all but only at time spy. Any other game/benchmark always crashes out 

 

Try 2550 on the memory then

[FCBoi]

On 4/22/2025 at 1:21 PM, Salted Spinach said:

Try 2550 on the memory then

naaah, did not work. Crashed.

2550
2500
2525
 

I am stable on -30mv, 2375mhz and +6% with +10MHz on Core Clock