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Getting ready to overclock my GTX980 soon. I am wondering what possibly ways I could damage the card, I obviously want to be careful. Can you still damage your card if you don't touch the voltage? Honestly I probably just want to overclock as far as I can without increasing the voltage. I'm wondering if that is pretty much gauranteed safe or if I could still do some damage if I am not careful enough. I have never overclocked a GPU before so I'm pretty paranoid.

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Getting ready to overclock my GTX980 soon. I am wondering what possibly ways I could damage the card, I obviously want to be careful. Can you still damage your card if you don't touch the voltage? Honestly I probably just want to overclock as far as I can without increasing the voltage. I'm wondering if that is pretty much gauranteed safe or if I could still do some damage if I am not careful enough. I have never overclocked a GPU before so I'm pretty paranoid.

You can't damage the card without touching the voltage.

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This is the process I used on my Windforce 970. Increase clock offsets by 10-15MHz; stress test; repeat. I would keep doing that until either my overclock became unstable or my GPU wouldn't boost up anymore. After that, I slowly bumped up my voltage, stress testing each time I did it. You may as well turn up the power limit to whatever the limit is on the 980 you're getting.

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Ya, see how far you can increase the core and memory without adding voltage.  Thing is, those Maxwell GPUs really take off once you add voltage because of their ultra low TDP.

 

Just don't run Kombustor/Furmark and you should be fine.  Use things like Unigine Heaven, Valley, Cinebench's GPU test, or built-in game benchmark utilities.

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