Safe overclock?

[JakLawrence]

Evening

 

Been tinkering with my GPU again now my PC is on Windows 10 - I had some stability issues in other areas that are now sorted, so after turning off all my overclocking for a while I'm starting to dial it back in.

 

My card is an MSI R9 270X that I've had since the end of last year.

 

 

I was wondering if you all could help me decipher whether it is running within safe parameters. I'm OCing using Afterburner and the following are my settings:-

 

Core Voltage (mv): +100

Power Limit (%): +20

Core Clock (MHz): 1250

Memory Clock (MHz): 1425

+ Custom Fan curve (I've got a custom fan curve that increments roughly 1-2% per Degree centigrade)

 

After running Valley for about an hour and running the Benchmark test roughly 4 times with no crashes, I believe it to be stable with these settings. I've been looking through the monitors on GPU-Z while Valley is running and I want to confirm that the readouts are within safe limits. These are what I'm seeing:-

 

GPU Core Clock maxes at 1250MHz

Memory clock maxes at 1425MHz

Maximum VDDC shown was 1.323V (usually hung around 1.281V but it jumped to 1.323 right at the end of the benchmark series)

Maximum VRM temperature was 63C whilst the GPU was hovering around 74-75C spiking to 76 and 77 on one occasion each.

 

would you consider that VDDC and VRM temperature to be safe?

 

Thanks,

J

[Overkilled]

I don't know much about how that card OCs but +100mhz is pretty mild

[JakLawrence]

I don't know much about how that card OCs but +100mhz is pretty mild

 

I ask mainly because people tend to say they struggle to get over 1200 on a lot of AMD cards - GPU-Z rates this as 75% ASIC quality though so maybe it's just luck haha