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Trouble overclocking MSI GTX 970

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October 4, 2014 7:40:28 AM

Hi all!

I resently bought an MSI GTX 970 gaming graphics card and I'm pretty happy with it.
My only problem is it doesn't overclock as well I would think it should.

While using MSI afterburner I get an error that says "The nvidia opengl driver detected a problem with the display driver and is unable to continue. The application must close.
Error code:3"


If I play a game (shadow of mordor) while overclocked I get an error that says something like my graphics card got diconected, or something like that.

I tested a bunch of overclock setting, I think the least texing being a plus 200 core overclock and no memory overclock.

It's not a temp issue as the card never goes over 68c.

My specs are:

Motherboard: ga-z77x-ud3h
CPU: i5 3570k @ 4.0
GPU: MSI gtx 970
RAM: Corsiar vengance 8gb
PSU: Ultra 550 watts using 1 6pin and 1 6 to 8 pin. (I think this may be the issue)

Thanks.

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October 4, 2014 7:53:47 AM

It might be the PSU not being able to supply it with enough power , I've never heard of that psu so I am not sure about the quality as well as the i5 is overclocked so it might be eating from the power too.

Nevertheless you might try and reseat the GPU in a different PCIe , see if that does something.
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October 4, 2014 8:54:40 AM

TopLuca said:
It might be the PSU not being able to supply it with enough power , I've never heard of that psu so I am not sure about the quality as well as the i5 is overclocked so it might be eating from the power too.

Nevertheless you might try and reseat the GPU in a different PCIe , see if that does something.


Thats what I was thinking. As for Ultra, I think only tigerdirect sells them. They must be pretty decent as mines been running for around 4 years.

Also, I beleive my other pci-e slot is only 8x.

Thanks!

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October 4, 2014 9:16:38 AM

balgoth17 said:
TopLuca said:
It might be the PSU not being able to supply it with enough power , I've never heard of that psu so I am not sure about the quality as well as the i5 is overclocked so it might be eating from the power too.

Nevertheless you might try and reseat the GPU in a different PCIe , see if that does something.


Thats what I was thinking. As for Ultra, I think only tigerdirect sells them. They must be pretty decent as mines been running for around 4 years.

Also, I beleive my other pci-e slot is only 8x.

Thanks!



The difference between 8x and 16x is only bandwidth related , switched it and you'll have no problems then try to overclock , if it does then it might have been not properly seated.

N.B : The GPU will work in a 8x

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