How to overclock an MSI R9 380 4 GB GDDR5?

[MultiGamerClub]

How do i even start to begin with at all.. Mostly zero experience with overclocking exept some friends fried their laptops while on the school.

 

Or else i havent really overclocked anything at all.

 

How do i even begin to overclock something and not frying the pc entirely?

 

So many questions..

[Dresta]

Get MSI Afterburner and try to get a stable clock with a normal temp (80c-85c is the maximum but you can go for 90c but i dont recommend it)

[RuLeZ]

Just use the AMD overdrive on the Crimson driver, just put the clock up until it remains stable, and increase the power control, there are no way to frie a GPU like that, unless you are changing the voltage of the core, but most cards dont even support it.

[MultiGamerClub]

Currently i just found something called "MSI | Intel(r) Extreme Tuning Utility" and it seems quite interesting..

 

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[awesomeness10120]

4 minutes ago, MultiGamerClub said:

Currently i just found something called "MSI | Intel(r) Extreme Tuning Utility" and it seems quite interesting..

 

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That's for CPU mostly. If you want to overclock the GPU, download MSI Afterburner.

[MultiGamerClub]

7 minutes ago, awesomeness10120 said:

That's for CPU mostly. If you want to overclock the GPU, download MSI Afterburner.

I'll try, as long as i just kills my cpu and increase fps on some games like Rust/World of tanks im happy x)

[SeanAngelo]

24 minutes ago, MultiGamerClub said:

How do i even start to begin with at all.. Mostly zero experience with overclocking exept some friends fried their laptops while on the school.

 

Or else i havent really overclocked anything at all.

 

How do i even begin to overclock something and not frying the pc entirely?

 

So many questions..

really is no point of overclocking amd gpus... they wont go far.

[MultiGamerClub]

3 minutes ago, SeanAngelo said:

really is no point of overclocking amd gpus... they wont go far.

Just found out this.. and im kinda afraid and at the same time exited.. Ive known it for decades, but ive already seen 1 main pc of a friend go up in flames, 4 laptops dying while smoking the classrooms and 2 laptops dying because the gpu inside the laptops shut down completely x)

 

 

[Sakkura]

Overclocking laptops is dangerous, desktop hardware is another story because you can have far better cooling.

 

And don't listen to the fanboy, overclocking an AMD card is perfectly viable.

[MultiGamerClub]

3 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

Overclocking laptops is dangerous, desktop hardware is another story because you can have far better cooling.

 

And don't listen to the fanboy, overclocking an AMD card is perfectly viable.

Listening to anyone wont do anything but laughing.. but seeing the MSI Afterburner im kinda scared atm x)

[SeanAngelo]

10 minutes ago, MultiGamerClub said:

Just found out this.. and im kinda afraid and at the same time exited.. Ive known it for decades, but ive already seen 1 main pc of a friend go up in flames, 4 laptops dying while smoking the classrooms and 2 laptops dying because the gpu inside the laptops shut down completely x)

 

 

well, if you research into it, you'll be fine. as long as you don't push voltages too far or start putting in random values.

 

6 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

Overclocking laptops is dangerous, desktop hardware is another story because you can have far better cooling.

 

And don't listen to the fanboy, overclocking an AMD card is perfectly viable.

LOL "fanboy" hahahha! @ me though. its true, AMD gpu's are terrible at overclocking. im not saying you can't but you're perfectly fine to overclock it but don't be surprised if you only get +25mhz on the core  

[MultiGamerClub]

4 minutes ago, SeanAngelo said:

well, if you research into it, you'll be fine. as long as you don't push voltages too far or start putting in random values.

 

LOL "fanboy" hahahha! @ me though. its true, AMD gpu's are terrible at overclocking. im not saying you can't but you're perfectly fine to overclock it but don't be surprised if you only get +25mhz on the core  

Voltages? 

[SeanAngelo]

4 minutes ago, MultiGamerClub said:

Voltages? 

the core voltage slider in MSI Afterburner at the top...

[MultiGamerClub]

4 minutes ago, SeanAngelo said:

the core voltage slider in MSI Afterburner at the top...

The feeling when u have no idea what to do with the software x)

[Sakkura]

24 minutes ago, SeanAngelo said:

LOL "fanboy" hahahha! @ me though. its true, AMD gpu's are terrible at overclocking. im not saying you can't but you're perfectly fine to overclock it but don't be surprised if you only get +25mhz on the core  

Nonsense. That's completely ridiculous, of course you can get more than 25 MHz in the vast majority of cases. My card's overclocked by 153 MHz without even adjusting voltage. And it's worth noting that you generally get significantly more performance per MHz with an AMD card than an Nvidia card.

[SeanAngelo]

2 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

Nonsense. That's completely ridiculous, of course you can get more than 25 MHz in the vast majority of cases. My card's overclocked by 153 MHz without even adjusting voltage. And it's worth noting that you generally get significantly more performance per MHz with an AMD card than an Nvidia card.

well duh... you get more performance per MHz because they're cheaper

[Sakkura]

24 minutes ago, MultiGamerClub said:

The feeling when u have no idea what to do with the software x)

The core clock, where it says 980, you'd type in maybe 985 or 990, then hit apply on the lower right side. Then test stability with a benchmark - usually I just run Unigine Valley alongside MSI Afterburner while overclocking. Then if that setting looks stable (no visual artifacts or error messages etc), you dial the clocks up another step. Eventually you hit a point where it isn't stable, then you can dial it back a little. Then repeat the process for the memory clock. Keep an eye on temperatures along the way (don't go past maybe 85C).

 

In addition to this, it's a good idea to increase the power limit, usually just to the maximum.

 

The last thing you can do is increase voltage, though that setting needs to be enabled in MSI Afterburner, and is disabled on some cards. Higher voltage will (normally) allow you to push the core clock higher. But it increases power consumption and the card will run hotter.

7 minutes ago, SeanAngelo said:

well duh... you get more performance per MHz because they're cheaper

What? That makes no sense.

[App4that]

9 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

Nonsense. That's completely ridiculous, of course you can get more than 25 MHz in the vast majority of cases. My card's overclocked by 153 MHz without even adjusting voltage. And it's worth noting that you generally get significantly more performance per MHz with an AMD card than an Nvidia card.

My Radeon cards have never overclocked that well, not when compared to Nvidia anyways. Never got over 100MHz, ever.

[Sakkura]

2 minutes ago, App4that said:

My Radeon cards have never overclocked that well, not when compared to Nvidia anyways. Never got over 100MHz, ever.

Random luck of the draw is a factor, plus each MHz usually means more on AMD cards. You should compare percentage overclock instead of MHz. Still, current Nvidia cards do generally overclock very well. That doesn't mean it's not worth overclocking AMD cards though.

[App4that]

1 minute ago, Sakkura said:

Random luck of the draw is a factor, plus each MHz usually means more on AMD cards. You should compare percentage overclock instead of MHz. Still, current Nvidia cards do generally overclock very well. That doesn't mean it's not worth overclocking AMD cards though.

Totally agree, AMD scales way better than Nvidia when overclocking.

[MultiGamerClub]

2 hours ago, Sakkura said:

The core clock, where it says 980, you'd type in maybe 985 or 990, then hit apply on the lower right side. Then test stability with a benchmark - usually I just run Unigine Valley alongside MSI Afterburner while overclocking. Then if that setting looks stable (no visual artifacts or error messages etc), you dial the clocks up another step. Eventually you hit a point where it isn't stable, then you can dial it back a little. Then repeat the process for the memory clock. Keep an eye on temperatures along the way (don't go past maybe 85C).

 

In addition to this, it's a good idea to increase the power limit, usually just to the maximum.

 

The last thing you can do is increase voltage, though that setting needs to be enabled in MSI Afterburner, and is disabled on some cards. Higher voltage will (normally) allow you to push the core clock higher. But it increases power consumption and the card will run hotter.

What? That makes no sense.

"Test stability" ?

 

Ive got no clue what to test or check my ... wait.. I think i know CPU-ID could check CPU, CPU and everything with the pc..

 

But unless i get so specific instructions that it looks stupid i wont be able to do anything because im too afraid to kill anything with my pc, talked about this some months ago with my uncle (IT expert) and he just said i should stay out of it.. But now im too curious x)

[MultiGamerClub]

Also, found this toturial but i tried chaning my fan speed to 55% as shown in the video, and i can hear it clear.. its not noisy.. just clear..

 

When its 30-35 its alot more silent, cant possibly dear to put it to 70-80 >_>

 

Vid; (Stopped watching due to fear of killing gpu >_<)

 

[Ryujin2003]

On 07/18/2016 at 4:23 PM, MultiGamerClub said:

Also, found this toturial but i tried chaning my fan speed to 55% as shown in the video, and i can hear it clear.. its not noisy.. just clear..

 

When its 30-35 its alot more silent, cant possibly dear to put it to 70-80 >_>

 

Vid; (Stopped watching due to fear of killing gpu >_<)

 

I overclocked my 380 as well. For at OC ever. You won't fry it. I used Kombustor to test my GPU. I overclock ed to 1100, slight change in voltage (+5), and my FPS has increased, and can handle ultra in most of my game now. I don't have heat issues.

 

Create a fan profile. I use 25% default, 50% at 45 degrees, 80 at 60 degrees and 100 at 70. It never gets close to 60.

 

Play and round with it, you'll be fine. I plan on more OC when I have time to and rounding down  for more than 10 minutes.

 

I love my 380.