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Overclocking Sapphire R9 290X Tri-X Help!

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  • Overclocking
  • Tri-X
  • Sapphire
  • R9 290X
  • MSI Afterburner
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September 28, 2014 7:47:55 AM

Hi.
I recently bought a Sapphire Tri-X R9 290X and I'm thinking of overclocking it.
I'm not sure exactly what or how to do it, so please give me tips.
1. What do you think I should overclock with? MSI AfterBurner?
2. How much should I overclock it? How much should I change things?
3. Should I overclock now or wait a while until my GPU is getting old and I need more power?

Thanks in advance ;) 

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a b K Overclocking
September 28, 2014 5:37:25 PM

To overclock I would recommend either sapphire trixx or MSi afterburner. It's basically personal preference between those two.

When overclocking, some people do wait for when their card is not sufficient for what they want, but there is always this feeling that the card always has more potential that' even better than what it is. You may be running 60fps bf4, but why not 70? haha that's how I feel anyway.

Okay the thing that will determine the most performance is overclocking the gpu core, overclocking the memory may add 1-2fps. The core if given enough can actually add 10+ depending on the overclock.
On the Sapphire tri-x I beleive the core clock is currently at 1000mhz, if you increase that by 20mhz and then test the stability of the overclock on a benchmark, such as uniengine. Such as heaven benchmark.
http://unigine.com/products/heaven/

If it crashes or bsod's then your overclock is unstable. Go back down. If it works then continue up in steps and test every single step. Eventually when it crashes that is your highest overclock on stock voltages, back down a little in mhz say 10mhz and test again. If all is fine then go to your favorite games and play full games on that overclock. If all works you're good to go.

WARNING: watch your temperatures while gaming and benchmarking, you don't want anything above 80 degrees.

Now after you've done all this you can actually add more voltage to your card to overclock even higher, warning that over volting can cause damage to your card if not done correctly. Overvolting is the thing that will cause degradation in the life of your card.
Add 0.05v more and test the overclock above, if it crashes add 0.05v more and continue to take steps up. Do not go above 1.25v as most cards can only take that much. THIS STEP PROBABLY IS NOT NESSESARY BUT CAN BE USED WHEN YOUR CARD REALLY NEEDS THAT BOOST LATER ON.

-good luck
-happy overclocking.
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September 28, 2014 6:29:17 PM

Very well said "Anonymouselite5".
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September 29, 2014 1:43:24 AM

Thanks so much ;) 
Just downloaded AfterBurner and gonna try it out now.
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a b K Overclocking
September 29, 2014 2:51:58 AM

SachMcFunny said:
Thanks so much ;) 
Just downloaded AfterBurner and gonna try it out now.


Just ask here if you receive any problems.
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