Overclocking Issues

[Judg3]

I have overclocked my GPU (GTX 960 4GB) to 1480Mhz and it worked smoothly after that I bumped it up to 1500Mhz at random he started to cap at 539Mhz. This is the second time it happened, I had to re-install windows to fix this before.

Is there any other way of fixing this limit?

[TheNuzziNuzz]

Thermal Throttling?

[Judg3]

3 minutes ago, TheNuzziNuzz said:

Thermal Throttling?

Why would it throttle just 20Mhz higher?

[TheNuzziNuzz]

1 minute ago, Judg3 said:

Why would it throttle just 20Mhz higher?

Check your temps. What exactly do you mean by "capping"?

[Judg3]

1 minute ago, TheNuzziNuzz said:

Check your temps. What exactly do you mean by "capping"?

The card comes at 1300Mhz standard, so that means it can run at 1300Mhz now mine doesnt want to go over 539Hmz anymore moment.

Temps havent even gone over 50'C

[TheNuzziNuzz]

2 minutes ago, Judg3 said:

The card comes at 1300Mhz standard, so that means it can run at 1300Mhz now mine doesnt want to go over 539Hmz anymore moment.

Temps havent even gone over 50'C

 

Usually cards will have two clocks. A resting, and a boost. They will only increase to the boost speed (The overclock) when the extra performance is needed.

 

Does it return to normal when you remove the overclock entirly?

[martward]

When it's capped at 539 it is probably in safe mode because your overclock made it unstable. Undoing the overclock and rebooting the system should fix the problem. The only way to not get the cap is to not overclock it that high.

[Judg3]

9 minutes ago, TheNuzziNuzz said:

Usually cards will have two clocks. A resting, and a boost. They will only increase to the boost speed (The overclock) when the extra performance is needed.

 

Does it return to normal when you remove the overclock entirly?

No it does not

[TheNuzziNuzz]

 

2 minutes ago, Judg3 said:

No it does not

3 minutes ago, martward said:

When it's capped at 539 it is probably in safe mode because your overclock made it unstable. Undoing the overclock and rebooting the system should fix the problem. The only way to not get the cap is to not overclock it that high.

 

 

 

 

 

Yes I agree. Click "Reset" in MSI afterburner, and apply that. Then actually click restart, don't just click shut down and power on again.

[Judg3]

54 minutes ago, martward said:

When it's capped at 539 it is probably in safe mode because your overclock made it unstable. Undoing the overclock and rebooting the system should fix the problem. The only way to not get the cap is to not overclock it that high.

It worked thank you!

sorry for wasting your time with this thread

[martward]

7 hours ago, Judg3 said:

It worked thank you!

sorry for wasting your time with this thread

NP, glad it worked out