- Apr 12, 2013
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Hello, I recently tried pushing my small OC a little further on my rig.
I was trying out a better overclock on my GPU at 1200Mhz on the boost clock but the screen flashed between purple and the normal colour on 3DMark Fire Storm followed by a frozen desktop including the mouse on pressing the escape button. I'm wondering if increasing the voltage from 1000mV will help with the overclock at all. And if so, how would if affect the life span of my card. I'm thinking of upping it to 1100mV. I do have a good fan profile set up and the heat was under 70 Celsius at the time of testing.
Current Stable Gaming OC Settings:
1035Mhz Core / 1100Mhz Boost
Min. GPU Voltage: 1000mV (Pushed slightly from 987mV to stop power savings etc messing with my OC)
Memory clock: 6100
Power target: 115%
I'm aware that my CPU is currently limiting me in some games (I'm currently saving up the money for an MSI GD65 Motherboard + i7 4770k).
Specs:
Full PCPartPicker part list
CPU: AMD FX-4170 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£108.23 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£36.88 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£112.94 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 840 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (Purchased For £74.99)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For £69.00)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 670 2GB Video Card (Purchased For £310.00)
Case: CiT Vantage ATX Mid Tower Case (£32.98 @ Ebuyer)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Full (32/64-bit) (Purchased For £100.00)
Other: Cooler Master GX-Series 650W 80 Plus PSU (Purchased For £54.99)
I was trying out a better overclock on my GPU at 1200Mhz on the boost clock but the screen flashed between purple and the normal colour on 3DMark Fire Storm followed by a frozen desktop including the mouse on pressing the escape button. I'm wondering if increasing the voltage from 1000mV will help with the overclock at all. And if so, how would if affect the life span of my card. I'm thinking of upping it to 1100mV. I do have a good fan profile set up and the heat was under 70 Celsius at the time of testing.
Current Stable Gaming OC Settings:
1035Mhz Core / 1100Mhz Boost
Min. GPU Voltage: 1000mV (Pushed slightly from 987mV to stop power savings etc messing with my OC)
Memory clock: 6100
Power target: 115%
I'm aware that my CPU is currently limiting me in some games (I'm currently saving up the money for an MSI GD65 Motherboard + i7 4770k).
Specs:
Full PCPartPicker part list
CPU: AMD FX-4170 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£108.23 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£36.88 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£112.94 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 840 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (Purchased For £74.99)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For £69.00)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 670 2GB Video Card (Purchased For £310.00)
Case: CiT Vantage ATX Mid Tower Case (£32.98 @ Ebuyer)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Full (32/64-bit) (Purchased For £100.00)
Other: Cooler Master GX-Series 650W 80 Plus PSU (Purchased For £54.99)
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