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AlexCom
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I`ve had two 980 for some time now and about a month ago I did some watercooling on them as well.

 

In this situation I want to overclock.. and I did for about 250 mhz extra on the GPU and on the memory, all good, no artefacting or any problems, temps stay at 50-55 in gaming for long sessions (Dragon age, Dying light and so on...) 

 

I did the overclock in EVGA`s Precision software.

 

Now, the question is... do I have to keep the OC on at all times? Or just when I game? I work on this computer as well, and the viewports of the 3d softwares I`m using don`t really benefit from the OC.

 

TL:DR is it ok to enable the OC once/twice a day then when I stop gaming to go to stock again? Will it damage the cards in the long run?(all the switching)

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TL:DR is it ok to enable the OC once/twice a day then when I stop gaming to go to stock again? Will it damage the cards in the long run?(all the switching)

I do it all the time, nothing has broke yet xD

BF4 I have to underclock my RAM 50MHz, but most other games I can overclock the hell out of it 

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They automatically clock down when you don't need all that extra power so you have nothing to worry about

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The switching shouldn't damage anything :)

It would be perfectly safe to keep that overclock running all the time i rekon

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I dont know about the software you use but on msi afterburner you can have different profiles for different overclocks/underclocks.

however you don't really need to worry as modern gpus just scale back when they're not in demand. so the overclock will only come into play when it's being stressed.

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