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GTX 970 overclocking failure

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I did, here are my settings when ever I tried to overclock 

 

http://gyazo.com/3482b101085a8112f50c3a66ec4a2760

 

Driver version: 353.06. That's your issue right there. Last 2 drivers from Nvidia are unstable. I've seen a ton of complaints about them. 

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UPDATE : I have up'd the clock speed by 100+ and so far its stable 

UPDATE : I've added 400+ on the memory clock stable so far

Hello everyone 

 

so basically, I've tried so many times to overclock my MSI gaming 4G GTX 970. but every try ended up with failure, even useing MSI's gaming APP OC mode crashes my PC, and I really don't know why

Here are my specs

 

I run a 3570K, with a gigabyte DS3H-H97 (I know its a waste of CPU with an unoverclockable friendly motherboard, but i will upgrade soon enough)

I also run 32 gigs of corsair vengeance pro @ 1600MHz (the ram sticks are @ 2400Mhz, but since my motherboard doesn't go that far I can only run it at 1600 Mhz)

I also use 2 Storage units, one being a 1 TB HDD from seagate, and another 250 GB SSD from Crucial that I have my OS and some apps and games on

all of these are hooked up with a 650w gigabyte greenmax plus PSU

and my GTX 970 running at stock speeds

 

my motherboard could be the case of this problem, but I'm not sure because I don't have a butt-load of motherboards laying around to trouble shoot and test around, anyways, so I've run GTA 5 mostly 

everything on very high, but I disabled every MSAA setting in the settings menu, and after a while my monitor goes to sleep, and then I have to restart and mess around with some components to get it back and working.

 

the card doesn't run hot at all, 57c is the max it got, and at idle it runs at 41/43c.

 

I'm still not sure on whats the problem here, but I really hope if anyone knows that'd be great

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give me a screenshots of GPUz and afterburner

 

http://gyazo.com/3b710a3ede84dc66493c6f201ed96451

 

http://gyazo.com/6eb12c6d4432f6d6b3fa1f972c0e9936

 

here you go 

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Run Heaven. Better way to benchmark the card.

Then slowly increase the clock speed until it crashes or you see artifacts.

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Run Heaven. Better way to benchmark the card.

Then slowly increase the clock speed until it crashes or you see artifacts.

 

see, the problem is when it crashes, everything crashes with it, so to fix it, I need to turn off my PC and then remove the card, plug it back in, or remove the ram sticks and put them back in, which is a huge pain in the butt considering I use a really horrendous case that isn't very friendly when it comes to that 

Early 2020 Build : Intel i7 8700k // MSI Krait Z370 // Corsair LPX 8x2 16GB // Aorus 5700 XT // NZXT H500 

Early 2019 Build : Ryzen 2600X // Asus Tuff X470 // G.Skill Trident Z RGB 8x2 16GB // MSI RTX 2070 // NZXT H500 

Late 2017 Build : Intel i7 8700k // Asus Prime Z370-A // G.Skill Trident Z 8x2 16GB // EVGA GTX 1080 Ti  // NZXT S320 Elite 

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put your powerlimit to the max and OC them

 

I did, here are my settings when ever I tried to overclock 

 

http://gyazo.com/3482b101085a8112f50c3a66ec4a2760

Early 2020 Build : Intel i7 8700k // MSI Krait Z370 // Corsair LPX 8x2 16GB // Aorus 5700 XT // NZXT H500 

Early 2019 Build : Ryzen 2600X // Asus Tuff X470 // G.Skill Trident Z RGB 8x2 16GB // MSI RTX 2070 // NZXT H500 

Late 2017 Build : Intel i7 8700k // Asus Prime Z370-A // G.Skill Trident Z 8x2 16GB // EVGA GTX 1080 Ti  // NZXT S320 Elite 

Late 2015 Build : Intel i7 6700k // Asus Maximus VI Gene Z170 //  Corsair LPX 8x2 16GB // Gigabyte GTX 970 // Corsair Air 240

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Status :  Currently going to bed, going to check this post later tomorrow, check out the older posts to see Afterburner/GPUz and such

Early 2020 Build : Intel i7 8700k // MSI Krait Z370 // Corsair LPX 8x2 16GB // Aorus 5700 XT // NZXT H500 

Early 2019 Build : Ryzen 2600X // Asus Tuff X470 // G.Skill Trident Z RGB 8x2 16GB // MSI RTX 2070 // NZXT H500 

Late 2017 Build : Intel i7 8700k // Asus Prime Z370-A // G.Skill Trident Z 8x2 16GB // EVGA GTX 1080 Ti  // NZXT S320 Elite 

Late 2015 Build : Intel i7 6700k // Asus Maximus VI Gene Z170 //  Corsair LPX 8x2 16GB // Gigabyte GTX 970 // Corsair Air 240

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I did, here are my settings when ever I tried to overclock 

 

http://gyazo.com/3482b101085a8112f50c3a66ec4a2760

 

Driver version: 353.06. That's your issue right there. Last 2 drivers from Nvidia are unstable. I've seen a ton of complaints about them. 

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Status :  Currently going to bed, going to check this post later tomorrow, check out the older posts to see Afterburner/GPUz and such

I;m not sure if you want to go full out with the voltage.

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is that over clock even stable or did you just put it to that and hope it would work 

 

I've seen so many people use it, and I went even lower than that, it still didn't work 

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Install 350.12

 

I will later today when im home

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Early 2019 Build : Ryzen 2600X // Asus Tuff X470 // G.Skill Trident Z RGB 8x2 16GB // MSI RTX 2070 // NZXT H500 

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I've seen so many people use it, and I went even lower than that, it still didn't work 

just because you have seen so many people does not mean it can even over clock you should all ways keep the voltage as stock and up the core clock by 20Mhz and then bench mark then repeat and the same for the memory but by 50MHz  

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Status :  Currently going to bed, going to check this post later tomorrow, check out the older posts to see Afterburner/GPUz and such

 

You put +210 on the core that's probably why, that's way high even for a golden chip. 

 

Try going at +100 on the core and +400 on them mem with no change in voltage to see if it's stable. if it is increase the core a bit and try again once it's unstable then increase the voltage and rinse/repeat until you find the max on that card.

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You put +210 on the core that's probably why, that's way high even for a golden chip. 

 

Try going at +100 on the core and +400 on them mem with no change in voltage to see if it's stable. if it is increase the core a bit and try again once it's unstable then increase the voltage and rinse/repeat until you find the max on that card.

 

Just did 

Early 2020 Build : Intel i7 8700k // MSI Krait Z370 // Corsair LPX 8x2 16GB // Aorus 5700 XT // NZXT H500 

Early 2019 Build : Ryzen 2600X // Asus Tuff X470 // G.Skill Trident Z RGB 8x2 16GB // MSI RTX 2070 // NZXT H500 

Late 2017 Build : Intel i7 8700k // Asus Prime Z370-A // G.Skill Trident Z 8x2 16GB // EVGA GTX 1080 Ti  // NZXT S320 Elite 

Late 2015 Build : Intel i7 6700k // Asus Maximus VI Gene Z170 //  Corsair LPX 8x2 16GB // Gigabyte GTX 970 // Corsair Air 240

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