Graphics card

[Graeme-1]

Hey guys thanks for all your help.i have purchased evga gtx 960 ssc. I was wondering if it's possible to overclock clock and is so how I do that and what is it safe to put it to

 

[AdamTheSlave]

Overclocking is a lot like drinking... Some people can drink more and some people are light weights. Basically, your gpu might be capable of a huge overclock, or it might not overclock at all. Slowly step up your speed by small amounts (say, 25mhz) until it runs unstable in benchmarks (like unigine heaven or kombustor or unigine superposition), then try to up the voltage a bit and see if that becomes stable without overheating the card causing thermal throttling. Granted I have never overclocked a radeon (I've owned nvidia's since 3dfx went under), but that's usually the process for cpu's and gpu's. [edit: god, you aren't using a radeon, I'm sorry, coffee hasn't kicked in yet] Expect to spend some real time on it. Once you think you got it dialed in, do an extended test, looking out for artifacts and instability by running a benchmark for hours, then play your favorite demanding games for a while. If it starts wonking out on you it's time to back off settings a little bit.

 

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The Tools you would use to overclock would be MSI Afterburner or Precision XOC. You can find Precision X on steam, and you can download MSI Afterburner from msi. I personally use Afterburner. To overclock with that, first start by just setting an aggresive fan curve, maxing out the power limit and heat limit. Then that should give you a nice little overclock alone. Then you want to bump up your core by incriments of 25 or so, and test on the fly while running heaven benchmark in a window.