Getting different clock speeds and is my card dying?

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First I apologize for the wall of text

I'm getting two different clock speeds for my graphic card. In Asus GPU Tweak I set the clock speed to 1200, nothing else was changed. When I run Valley Benchmark on the top right it says GPU Clock 1343 MHZ, the memory clock is also lower than what the GPU tweak says, it says something like 3004 I believe. I wasn't able to get a screenshot from the benchmark, it would only give me a screenshot of my desktop. They're suppose to be the same right? I'm fairly new at this so I could be wrong.

A few more questions if anyone can answer them, just wondering if I could be doing something wrong when overclocking.

When I originally started overclocking my card was when I first installed watercooling into my PC, about 3-4 months ago. I was able to clock the clock speeds up to 1358 (the max speed on my settings) and it was stable for a couple days. After that my games would crash and I started to get artifacts. So I turned it down to 1250 MHZ and it became stable again but this time for a couple months until now. I had to turn it down to 1200 MHZ to be stable and sometimes not it even be stable then. I have gotten but I can only suppose to be errors in the GPU Tweak Graph because it says my clock speeds are 300MHZ and my memory clocks are also very low, same with the voltage going to about 800. When I restart my computer everything goes back to normal and I can run at 1200 MHZ and it's stable again. Is my card slowly dying? In the past in the first 2 days I had all max settings because it was working with no problem so I thought why not? My card is watercooled so it not going to fry or anything, it stays under 50c at all times.I read that the Tweak settings are only harmful if you go to the advanced settings and you can clock to very high speeds, 1600MHZ.

I also want to mention I did install Windows 8.1 Preview, It was for the performance increase in BF4 Beta. However I was having this problem on Windows 7 and Windows 8 before.

I attached a few screenshots below

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My settings at 1200MHZ
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GPU-Z
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Max Tweak Settings (What I ran the few couple days.)
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GPU Temperature and Voltage
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Valley Benchmark Results

 
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The memory will not always run at what it is set to. For example, my 3GB vRam card run at about 1.5 on 1080p for most games on single monitor. So if there isn't much need, then the memory will be lower. And I'm guessing you have a nVidia card. So they this thing called Boost. It saves you power in a sense. When you start using your card, boost kicks in OC'ing it a little. My 660ti at 967Mhz run at about 1050 when gaming because of boost stock, when I raise the clock speed, the boost speed raises.
I personally prefer MSI Afterburner because it's more stable for a program overclock. Asus GPU tweak seems a bit buggy to me. But the best overclock and most dangerous of course, would be flashing your BIOS on the card. I don't recommend it if you're new and not willing to take a risk. (I take no responsibility in what you do or damage).

Also, if you want to overclock with nVidia cards-If you open the control panel for nvidia (right click desktop, nvidia control panel), you can set power management settings to max performance. This should help a little as well.

And the low reading is from the Driver crash, when you restart your PC, it opens the driver and the settings are reverted. When the driver crashes-there isn't any settings in the computer-nothing telling it how to run, hard for me to explain since I'm not to knowledgeable of how drivers work.
But this is normal for a driver crash.
 
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Forgot to mention, every card and CPU is different, one may have a stable Overclock with certain settings, where another with the same settings and card will not be so stable.
And you might want to try increasing you voltage in GPU tweak a little-if you're experiencing artifacts or crashing or driver crashes and other problems.
Driver updates, windows updates, Bios updates and time itself will change what is 'Stable"" or not. What is stable now, can be unstable tomorrow, in a week, or a year. Varies.
Hope this helped.
 
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Unigine is a good benchmark and can offer alot of DirectX 11 tests. If you do custom settings while the programs running. You can alter the tessellation and other options which will really stress your GPUY out. And it's definitely a good program. But I would recommend running another test as well-3D mark, there's a free version.
Maybe catzilla if you're willing to be 5 bucks for 1080p. And if you want to see if your RAM-CPU overclock is stable, prime95 torture test. (If you're overclocking your GPU, chances are, you're overclocking other components-maybe to points of which arent to stable either maybe?) Just an assumption though ;)
 
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So I uninstalled the Asus GPU Tweak and installed MSI After burner, Im still getting the same problems with stability but I did notice when it crashes now it will start the first few frames fine and after a couple seconds it will go black then back and load a couple more frames and then black again. I tried uping the voltage but it still crashes. Also now when I first start my computer up and try the benchmark the first time it will show my GPU Clock at 1202MHZ. My stock clock is 1006 with 1056 boost. So somehow my clock speed is being changed when I boot up but I did not set MSI Afterburner to change anything on startup so it should startup with the stock speeds. Any idea why?

Also I have two questions about the MSI Afterburner settings, under general settings it gives me an option between Kernel mode or User Mode, Should I use user mode or kernel mode? I tried both and there was no difference, just wondering. There is also an option for "Force Constant Voltage", Should I check that too or leave that alone?
 
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That's strange, you might want to talk to someone with more experience in the graphics department. It almost seems like the BIOS within the card was altered or the Asus program kept it's settings to load on windows startup.
If the card is still under warranty, yo might want to ask for a replacement...but it may jsut be the program. However I am not 100% certain,m so please ask one of the experts on the site for more information-sorry I was unable to assist you.
 
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Didn't bother reading too much, I'm outside in about a foot of snow at the moment but i can offer a few quick things. 1) yes memory will and should always run at what it's set at. No exceptions. 2) depending on gpu (assuming it's newer via the referenced clockspeeds, if 1300 is the boosted speed it will fluctuate based on temp/TDP/ and to a lesser degree voltage and load (based on the aforementioned)

I hate to ask but you do have the "sync all cards" button checked right? Also if your not full screen then SLI doesn't work (wish they'd fix this) so go full screen and enable the SLI indicator to ensure it's working.

After all that if it still isn't working increase your voltage and TDP. If your already at max then either your clockspeeds are too high and have inadequate power which can only be fixed via modded bios or SLI simply isn't working.

Easiest way to start is probably to lower your clocks and see if they stay.

As far as 1300mhz I know of no card out right now that can sustain that speed without a modded bios so.....
 
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Next time read the post because you answered nothing.
 
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