Hey everyone,
I have a great knowledge of computers but this was my first time attempting to overclock my Sapphire 7870 HD. I may have raised the GPU clock settings and high perfomance memory clock settings a bit too high (1100mhz, default is 975) when I first attempted to overclock the card. I didn't change any of the voltage settings (that I'm aware of) and I was using Catalyst Control Center. What happened was that I was seeing some weird pixels as soon as I overclocked it.. I then reset it back to normal but now when I run WoW, the game is very choppy/spikey and I'm unable to get steady FPS. I was able to run WoW on Ultra with no lag but now I have to run it on low/fair to play it.
What I've noticed now (but didn't notice before) is that my graphics card is almost always running at 99% whenever it is being used. When its idle, the activity is around 10%-64% but the card does not overheat at all and the fan does not reach past 40% ever. The temperatures reach around 50 degrees on idle and maybe 60 while playing a lower end game like WoW. I've attempted to reset my graphics to default, reinstalled up to date drivers and set everything to default in the bios. I feel like I've ran out of things to try but I've seen other people have similar problems with overclocking and I'm not sure now if my whole card is damaged and I should replace it or attempt something else. Please help!
I have a great knowledge of computers but this was my first time attempting to overclock my Sapphire 7870 HD. I may have raised the GPU clock settings and high perfomance memory clock settings a bit too high (1100mhz, default is 975) when I first attempted to overclock the card. I didn't change any of the voltage settings (that I'm aware of) and I was using Catalyst Control Center. What happened was that I was seeing some weird pixels as soon as I overclocked it.. I then reset it back to normal but now when I run WoW, the game is very choppy/spikey and I'm unable to get steady FPS. I was able to run WoW on Ultra with no lag but now I have to run it on low/fair to play it.
What I've noticed now (but didn't notice before) is that my graphics card is almost always running at 99% whenever it is being used. When its idle, the activity is around 10%-64% but the card does not overheat at all and the fan does not reach past 40% ever. The temperatures reach around 50 degrees on idle and maybe 60 while playing a lower end game like WoW. I've attempted to reset my graphics to default, reinstalled up to date drivers and set everything to default in the bios. I feel like I've ran out of things to try but I've seen other people have similar problems with overclocking and I'm not sure now if my whole card is damaged and I should replace it or attempt something else. Please help!
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