Help needed ASAP

[LightTheHedgie]

While overclocking my gtx 970, it dropped performance (in heaven it went from over 60 to under 30) i tried restarting the pc and claering the oc but it didnt work, please help

[TheRandomness]

Double post really not needed.

[Decon]

While overclocking my gtx 970, it dropped performance (in heaven it went from over 60 to under 30) i tried restarting the pc and claering the oc but it didnt work, please help

did you change the MV when OCing?

[LightTheHedgie]

did you change the MV when OCing?

no i didnt

[Lord_Karango17]

did you change the MV when OCing?

Nothing you can do in msi afterburner with a stock bios will harm the card... The whopping 12Mv nvidia lets you play with will do little if anything to the life of the card.

[Lord_Karango17]

Do a fresh install of the newest driver, and see if that helps.

 

Also have tools like gpuz in the background while playing the games to see what the clock speeds are, because when my display driver crashes, it gets stuck at 540 mhz, instead of going to the max 1250 mhz.

[LightTheHedgie]

Do a fresh install of the newest driver, and see if that helps.

 

Also have tools like gpuz in the background while playing the games to see what the clock speeds are, because when my display driver crashes, it gets stuck at 540 mhz, instead of going to the max 1250 mhz.

Thank you so much! The fresh install worked, do you have any tips on overclocking my gtx 970 so it doesnt happen again?

[Lord_Karango17]

Thank you so much! The fresh install worked, do you have any tips on overclocking my gtx 970 so it doesnt happen again?

Did it crash when you were overclocking?

 

I dont see any other reason as to why the clocks would be lower otherwise.

[LightTheHedgie]

Did it crash when you were overclocking?

 

I dont see any other reason as to why the clocks would be lower otherwise.

I was running heaven in a seperate window while changing the speeds, all of a sudden it froze then dropped to 30 fps and wouldnt go higher.

[Lord_Karango17]

I was running heaven in a seperate window while changing the speeds, all of a sudden it froze then dropped to 30 fps and wouldnt go higher.

what core/ memory clocks were you running at?

 

Go in little steps, and change one slider at a time, so you know what is causing instability, and when you reach the limit of the card.

 

Most people seem to be able to reach 1400mhz on the core, so that should be a safe place to start, and work your way up with 20 mhz increments.

 

When it crashes/ becomes unstable, back off by one 20 mhz step, and see if  its stable in games as well as synthetics like heaven/ 3dmark

[LightTheHedgie]

what core/ memory clocks were you running at?

 

Go in little steps, and change one slider at a time, so you know what is causing instability, and when you reach the limit of the card.

 

Most people seem to be able to reach 1400mhz on the core, so that should be a safe place to start, and work your way up with 20 mhz increments.

 

When it crashes/ becomes unstable, back off by one 20 mhz step, and see if  its stable in games as well as synthetics like heaven/ 3dmark

I'll keep that in mind, thank you very much