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First time overclocking on an R9 270 and I need a little noob help.

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July 10, 2014 11:49:14 PM

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. :pt1cable: 

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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a b K Overclocking
July 11, 2014 6:50:35 AM

Most people will recommend heaven benchmark for stress testing, but I have had alot of problems with heaven even with a stable overclock. Im not quite sure what is happening with vsync on heaven, if you run any other game such as maybe (battlefield or crysis) with vsync on do you get the same crashes?

Also check your driver settings, maybe it is set to force vsync off and somehow is interfering with it.

Also I would try the heaven with vsync on with stock clocks on the gpu, if you get crashes you know it is just heaven messing up (again).
If that's the case resume your overclocking, Also I would suggest testing your overclocks in games and benchmarks to really check stability.

good luck.
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July 11, 2014 11:19:47 PM

Anonymouselite5 said:
Most people will recommend heaven benchmark for stress testing, but I have had alot of problems with heaven even with a stable overclock. Im not quite sure what is happening with vsync on heaven, if you run any other game such as maybe (battlefield or crysis) with vsync on do you get the same crashes?

Also check your driver settings, maybe it is set to force vsync off and somehow is interfering with it.

Also I would try the heaven with vsync on with stock clocks on the gpu, if you get crashes you know it is just heaven messing up (again).
If that's the case resume your overclocking, Also I would suggest testing your overclocks in games and benchmarks to really check stability.

good luck.


Thanks for the tips! I did try with the factory settings and it didn't crash. I'll try the overclocking with a few other benchmarks too just in case. It survived firestrike with demo settings no problem and that seemed much harder on it than heaven was. (shrugs)

Would it be horrible for my card if I ignored the Heaven Vsync Bluescreens so long as it handles everything else without issues? Or is it's ability to run without OCing fine a sign I'm hurting it?

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a b K Overclocking
July 12, 2014 1:55:10 AM

Uberniz said:
Anonymouselite5 said:
Most people will recommend heaven benchmark for stress testing, but I have had alot of problems with heaven even with a stable overclock. Im not quite sure what is happening with vsync on heaven, if you run any other game such as maybe (battlefield or crysis) with vsync on do you get the same crashes?

Also check your driver settings, maybe it is set to force vsync off and somehow is interfering with it.

Also I would try the heaven with vsync on with stock clocks on the gpu, if you get crashes you know it is just heaven messing up (again).
If that's the case resume your overclocking, Also I would suggest testing your overclocks in games and benchmarks to really check stability.

good luck.


Thanks for the tips! I did try with the factory settings and it didn't crash. I'll try the overclocking with a few other benchmarks too just in case. It survived firestrike with demo settings no problem and that seemed much harder on it than heaven was. (shrugs)

Would it be horrible for my card if I ignored the Heaven Vsync Bluescreens so long as it handles everything else without issues? Or is it's ability to run without OCing fine a sign I'm hurting it?



Well personally I would say if you want just ignore heaven, as long as it completely works. Im not sure what others would say but as long as it runs fine and stable it shouldn't be bad.

The main reason we overclock is to have better performance in games, so as long as the games run fine. It should be fine.
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July 12, 2014 2:41:29 AM

Tried with every bench mark I could find and played a couple hours of Skyrim with no Problem. I'll be ignoring the Vsync Heaven Bench. Thanks for your help! Be picking your answer as the solution. But if anyone else has some words of advice to scare me away from running this anymore I'll be happy to give into my paranoia!
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a b K Overclocking
July 12, 2014 2:51:12 AM

Uberniz said:
Tried with every bench mark I could find and played a couple hours of Skyrim with no Problem. I'll be ignoring the Vsync Heaven Bench. Thanks for your help! Be picking your answer as the solution. But if anyone else has some words of advice to scare me away from running this anymore I'll be happy to give into my paranoia!


Good luck, Also I own a overclocked 7850, the card under your 270x. Ill test vsync with heaven too.

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September 21, 2014 3:24:19 PM

The r9 270x are really just the last models like the 7970's but pre overclocked. Don't think it would be all that great to do so
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