Is overclocking a GPU hard?

[OnionRings]

Is it harder then a CPU? As long as it has enough fans and the fans are good high quality, can you do it no problem? I'm asking because I wanna get the MSI GTX 1070 and it comes with an app where you can just click OC mode and bam done, is it safe or would you need to do anything else?

[Zyndo]

Largely speaking, so long as you do it responsibly, overclocking will never damage your components. If you want to download MSI's app and click the OC button, it will OC to their preconfigured standards and will operate just fine. You could also maybe squeeze a bit more performance out of the card if you overclock it manually yourself.

 

But no, overclocking a GPU is no harder to do than a CPU. its largely the same in fact. bump up the MHz until it becomes unstable, then bump up the voltage until its stable again, then bump up the MHz and so on. Don't be afraid to tinker =) There are tons and tons of guides online for this sort of thing. JayzTwoCents just did a complete pascal overclocking guide on youtube a few days ago. go check it out if you want to learn more.

[OnionRings]

Just now, Zyndo said:

Largely speaking, so long as you do it responsibly, overclocking will never damage your components. If you want to download MSI's app and click the OC button, it will OC to their preconfigured standards and will operate just fine. You could also maybe squeeze a bit more performance out of the card if you overclock it manually yourself.

 

But no, overclocking a GPU is no harder to do than a CPU. its largely the same in fact. bump up the MHz until it becomes unstable, then bump up the voltage until its stable again, then bump up the MHz and so on. Don't be afraid to tinker =)

Ok thanks, if I do get one I think their standard OC mode would do me fine though since I won't do any 4k and it already dominates 1080

[Techicolors]

5 minutes ago, OnionRings said:

Is it harder then a CPU? As long as it has enough fans and the fans are good high quality, can you do it no problem? I'm asking because I wanna get the MSI GTX 1070 and it comes with an app where you can just click OC mode and bam done, is it safe or would you need to do anything else?

1. in some ways easier than overclocking the CPU. you still need to be careful and overclock a little at a time

2. yes. watch your temps and voltage, and in some cases you'll need to be aggressive with fan speed

3. the pascal cards use gpu boost 3.0, which does some of the heavy-lifting for you, but you have to define the OC first. 

4. you can use one-click OC methods, but i'd rather dive in yourself and test things out