Overclocking Trouble

[Starelementpoke]

yes

and if you don't have any stresful games worth benchmarking...

 

are you overclocking for sport??

Pretty much. Thought'd I'd get it off my things to do list.

[DXMember]

Pretty much. Thought'd I'd get it off my things to do list.

can you share on how exactly does it crash?

Like do you get one of the following:

 

Unexpected system reboot

Blue screen

Black screen

Driver stopped responding but has been recovered message

System locks up

Display corruption

[Starelementpoke]

can you share on how exactly does it crash?

Like do you get one of the following:

 

Unexpected system reboot

Blue screen

Black screen

Driver stopped responding but has been recovered message

System locks up

Display corruption

Blue Screen or a Brown Screen

[DXMember]

Blue Screen or a Brown Screen

have you tried increasing voltage?

[angrymoose]

Blue Screen or a Brown Screen

Your whole PC crashes? That's not your GPU then.

 

When your overclock fails due to your GPU, you get a display driver crash. Your PC shouldn't lock up.

 

Have you tried that 3DMark demo or what?

[Starelementpoke]

Your whole PC crashes? That's not your GPU then.

 

When your overclock fails due to your GPU, you get a display driver crash. Your PC shouldn't lock up.

 

Have you tried that 3DMark demo or what?

Um, my internet my be really bad and according to the download est. it says it'll take 18 hours...

[Starelementpoke]

have you tried increasing voltage?

No, what should I up it by?

[Starelementpoke]

Something interesting just happened. Tried only raising the core clock and left the memory clock alone, and it worked. Furmark ran without any issues. Does this mean anything?

[DXMember]

Something interesting just happened. Tried only raising the core clock and left the memory clock alone, and it worked. Furmark ran without any issues. Does this mean anything?

mean you probably have sk hynix chips and not samsung

[Starelementpoke]

mean you probably have sk hynix chips and not samsung

The memory chips? GPUZ says they're elpida.

[DXMember]

The memory chips? GPUZ says they're elpida.

eitherway it ain't no samsung

 

just bump voltage, power Target and work on your core clock

 

amd cards already have cray cray bandwith and mem clocks don't do much

[Starelementpoke]

eitherway it ain't no samsung

 

just bump voltage, power Target and work on your core clock

 

amd cards already have cray cray bandwith and mem clocks don't do much

Sweet, good to know. Well that solves my problem.

[EpIcPoNaGe]

What I'm thinking is that his psu isn't good enough either quality wise or just overall wattage. I experienced crashing before when overclocking when I had a psu that didn't give them enough juice.

[angrymoose]

Sweet, good to know. Well that solves my problem.

You shouldn't be upping your clocks at the same rate while OC'ing anyhow. DXMember is right though, I have a 7970 and increasing memory clock speed does literally nothing for performance.