OC gtx 660 is driving me mad

aspri

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Hello

I never OC a GPU before but I tried to do so for having more fps in Crysis 3. I know that it's bad beginning since Crysis3 is hard to handle for most mid entry GPUs.
But I managed to unlock the bios and here's the weird thing, I use GPUTweak to increase clocks, I do that like +50mhz for both Core and Memory, any game I have are running fine but Crysis 3 just keep on crashing.
Please let me know if there's a workaround.
 

Chaoss

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If you bought the card and it was factory OC'd then I doubt you'd get much more out of it, it sounds like it's either getting too hot or there isn't enough voltage. I'd highly recommend NOT messing with the voltage settings as you can shorten the life of and/or damage your GPU.

If you want more FPS then your gonna have to buy either a better GPU, or a second GTX 660 to SLI
 

aspri

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Ok little improvements, I managed to OC the card but without touching the voltages. Very little gain so far (maybe fan speed that I should manage but still..there's hope). So the OC doesn't make Crysis 3 crash because no voltages unlocked nor touched.
Isn't there any backdoor solution (hopefully not hardware).