So I thought everything was going fine. I was using the Heaven benchmark and furmark. Heaven wants to lock up and bluescreen with my OC while furmark has no problems. Heaven has no problems either so long as I don't enable Vsync. Here's the story..
So I started by slowly raising it to 1050 gpu clock and 1500 mem clock running it on furmark for 15mins at a time. No problem... So I ran Heaven.. Went fine! I turned on Vsync and ran it again just to see it without any flickering. Bluescreened.. Lowered both by 10 and tried again and everything worked fine once more. Someone told me to up the volts a bit and lower the ram clock to get it not to Bluescreen so I tried that with 1200v, 1050core and 1460mem. Worked fine again so I got a little chip on my shoulder and tried 1065core and 1450mem clock. Again.. It worked great! Ran it on furmark for 15mins and two loops of the heaven demo. No prob!. I checked heaven's settings and it turned out that vsync had disabled itself after the last Bluescreen without me noticing. So I enabled it again and ran another loop... Bluescreen. Repeated this process of no vsync fallowed by vsync on and then a bluescreen again just to make sure it was the Vsync.
Now I'm a little confused on where to go with this. Everyone said "Furmark is great. Furmark will find any problems with the config!" blah blah.. But this heaven demo with vsync wants to bluescreen every time!
Is this a an issue with my rig not liking heaven's vsync or is this a sign I can't even get my GPU past the most basic OC?
Please feel free to throw lots of noob advice at me because I'm really starting to feel in over my head.
Specs...
CPU: i5 2400 quad sandybridge 3.1ghz - 3.2ghz
GPU: Sapphire Dual-x R9 270
Ram: 2 sticks, 8gb of DDR3
PSU: EVGA Bronze 600w
So I started by slowly raising it to 1050 gpu clock and 1500 mem clock running it on furmark for 15mins at a time. No problem... So I ran Heaven.. Went fine! I turned on Vsync and ran it again just to see it without any flickering. Bluescreened.. Lowered both by 10 and tried again and everything worked fine once more. Someone told me to up the volts a bit and lower the ram clock to get it not to Bluescreen so I tried that with 1200v, 1050core and 1460mem. Worked fine again so I got a little chip on my shoulder and tried 1065core and 1450mem clock. Again.. It worked great! Ran it on furmark for 15mins and two loops of the heaven demo. No prob!. I checked heaven's settings and it turned out that vsync had disabled itself after the last Bluescreen without me noticing. So I enabled it again and ran another loop... Bluescreen. Repeated this process of no vsync fallowed by vsync on and then a bluescreen again just to make sure it was the Vsync.
Now I'm a little confused on where to go with this. Everyone said "Furmark is great. Furmark will find any problems with the config!" blah blah.. But this heaven demo with vsync wants to bluescreen every time!
Is this a an issue with my rig not liking heaven's vsync or is this a sign I can't even get my GPU past the most basic OC?
Please feel free to throw lots of noob advice at me because I'm really starting to feel in over my head.
Specs...
CPU: i5 2400 quad sandybridge 3.1ghz - 3.2ghz
GPU: Sapphire Dual-x R9 270
Ram: 2 sticks, 8gb of DDR3
PSU: EVGA Bronze 600w
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