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Amazingasian
By Amazingasian
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I decided to overclock my GPU today.  I have an  MSI GTX 970.  The card passed the OCCT stress tests and ran perfectly fine until I decided to run a 3Dmark test on it to see how much it improved.  The score ended up being nearly 3000 points lower than my scores at a stock speed.  What did I do wrong?

 

Stock Speed - http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/8565305

Overclock Speed - http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/8565320

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was the card turboing up all the way? any thermal limits?

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was the card turboing up all the way? any thermal limits?

 

Nope.  It was stuck at 540mhz.  Temps were also pretty low.

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When my core clocks get stuck at low MHz, it means my drivers crashed and recovered. Usually, adjusting the core clock will fix it. If not, reset and try for a lower overclock. It's probably not stable.

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+455 mhz is insane. It's probably throttling like crazy in OCCT so it was stable at the lower clocks, but once the encountered 3dmark's variable load, it showed the issues. 

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Nope.  It was stuck at 540mhz.  Temps were also pretty low.

When in a benchmark the dirvers crash and recover, they lock up at 540mhz, try rebooting your system and it should be fine

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When in a benchmark the dirvers crash and recover, they lock up at 540mhz, try rebooting your system and it should be fine

No.  That wasn't the problem.  The stress test I used (OCCT) only works when the stress test window is in the foreground.  When I was stress testing, I was doing other things at the same time.  Somehow, I thought that it was stable and I let it be.  My bad.

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