PLEASE HELP

[ExceLerate]

I bought my new PC yesterday and went straight to overclocking my ASUS GTX 970 Strix OC. I was going through the process perfectly until my system went all buggy and started freezing, so reset the computer like the video told me to and dialed the core-clock from 250 too 200(when it was stable). But i had the same problem except from the freezing. The FPS rocket to below 30 when before it was 65-75. i noticed that the memory clock went down from 3505 to 3000. Does anyone know how to fix this? i've tried resetting the settings on MSI afterburner but it didn't do anything. Please help

[Firestrike]

What do you mean "200" ? 200% ?

[Nacho Marco Segui]

4 minutes ago, Firestrike said:

What do you mean "200" ? 200% ?

200 Mhz offset for the core clock

[ExceLerate]

Yeah i mean 200Mhz offset on the core clock. Do you have any ideas on how to help me, i'm sort of new to all of this and i don't want to have to pay for a replacement a day after i get the card 

[ExceLerate]

8 minutes ago, Firestrike said:

What do you mean "200" ? 200% ?

+200mhz offset

[App4that]

What are your at load clock speeds now?

[ExceLerate]

7 minutes ago, App4that said:

What are your at load clock speeds now?

I reset the coreclock back to whatever default is on the ASUS GTX 970 strix oc. (1253mhz boost clock)

[App4that]

But are you monitoring your clock speeds?

[ExceLerate]

Yeah, i haven't got that PC running at the moment but i can check in a little bit, if i remember then its around 1450mhz 

[App4that]

Watch your GPU load, CPU load, GPU clock speed, Memory clock speed

 

If you have high CPU load but low GPU load, that's a bottleneck

If you have Low CPU load and High GPU load but dropped frames, what's you core and memory speed? If both are normal, then you have an issue.

[ExceLerate]

8 minutes ago, App4that said:

Watch your GPU load, CPU load, GPU clock speed, Memory clock speed

 

If you have high CPU load but low GPU load, that's a bottleneck

If you have Low CPU load and High GPU load but dropped frames, what's you core and memory speed? If both are normal, then you have an issue.

My memory speed has dropped from 3505mhz to 3000mhz and i don't know how to get it back up to its original state that's what i believe to be the problem because that's the only thing that changed when i rebooted my PC

[App4that]

No, that drop in memory speed won't cut your frames in half. Shouldn't anyway. What's the load percentage on your GPU when you're getting these lower frames?

[ExceLerate]

33 minutes ago, App4that said:

No, that drop in memory speed won't cut your frames in half. Shouldn't anyway. What's the load percentage on your GPU when you're getting these lower frames?

Could you tell me everything I should monitor and then ill run a benchmark so that you can what I got so you can see the problem? It would be very highly appreciated

[ExceLerate]

36 minutes ago, App4that said:

No, that drop in memory speed won't cut your frames in half. Shouldn't anyway. What's the load percentage on your GPU when you're getting these lower frames?

99% GPU usage,Core-clock 540MHz, memory clock 3005mhz. Why has my core clock dropped to 540mhz when in the benchmark it said it was 1450?

[App4that]

Are you running Valley? It's usually wrong. I would restart the computer, if that doesn't fix it then uninstall Afterburner, make sure not to click on "save settings" when doing so. Then reinstall Afterburner. See if that works.

[ExceLerate]

2 minutes ago, App4that said:

Are you running Valley? It's usually wrong. I would restart the computer, if that doesn't fix it then uninstall Afterburner, make sure not to click on "save settings" when doing so. Then reinstall Afterburner. See if that works.

Yeah I was running Valley, what do you suggest instead? I will come back to you afterwards and tell you If it worked or not, I appreciate everything you're doing to try and resolve my problem thank you!

[IoWii]

What about reinstalling drivers with DDU? Maybe drivers bugged or something.

[ExceLerate]

Just now, IoWii said:

What about reinstalling drivers with DDU? Maybe drivers bugged or something.

DDU? How would I go about doing that?

[App4that]

I like 3D Mark's Firestrike 1.1

 

There is a free version available on Steam.

[IoWii]

Just now, ExceLerate said:

DDU? How would I go about doing that?

Display Driver Uninstaller http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html 
When u open up the program it will ask you to go into safe mode, just click continue or okay, it will go to safemode all by itself. Then you have an option "Clean and Restart". Press that and when u boot up again reinstall drivers from nVidia's site.

[ExceLerate]

Just now, App4that said:

I like 3D Mark's Firestrike 1.1

 

There is a free version available on Steam.

Ok I will download that

[ExceLerate]

Just now, IoWii said:

Display Driver Uninstaller http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html 
When u open up the program it will ask you to go into safe mode, just click continue or okay, it will go to safemode all by itself. Then you have an option "Clean and Restart". Press that and when u boot up again reinstall drivers from nVidia's site.

Cheers

[SecretAuthor]

The software could be reporting the clock speeds wrong. HWmonitor says that my gpu clock speed is 500ish mhz under load.

[ExceLerate]

16 minutes ago, ExceLerate said:

18 minutes ago, App4that said:

I like 3D Mark's Firestrike 1.1

 

There is a free version available on Steam.

 

It wouldn't allow me to get the free Firestrike 1.1, it says I have to buy 3D mark

[ExceLerate]

17 minutes ago, SecretAuthor said:

The software could be reporting the clock speeds wrong. HWmonitor says that my gpu clock speed is 500ish mhz under load.

Besides the point, I can visually see that the FPS has dropped massively