Should i Overclock my MSI R9-280X?

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absolutely. your card is a rebranded 7970 and you would be hard pressed under any circumstance to break 350 watts of usage out of your GPU

your CPU is an 84 watt CPU and the rest off you system will not use more than that so you have the head room and you could easily see a 10-20% increase in framerate.

use MSI afterburner to overclock.

http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm

trust me you are fine. your PSU is made by seasonic which is the best PS manufacturer in the world and it will deliver all the power you need while also having all of the failsafes that you want to have just in case something were to go wrong.

first thing to do is raise the power limit as high as it will go.

then start moving that core clock up...

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absolutely. your card is a rebranded 7970 and you would be hard pressed under any circumstance to break 350 watts of usage out of your GPU

your CPU is an 84 watt CPU and the rest off you system will not use more than that so you have the head room and you could easily see a 10-20% increase in framerate.

use MSI afterburner to overclock.

http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm

trust me you are fine. your PSU is made by seasonic which is the best PS manufacturer in the world and it will deliver all the power you need while also having all of the failsafes that you want to have just in case something were to go wrong.

first thing to do is raise the power limit as high as it will go.

then start moving that core clock up by 10MHz at a time while running the heaven benchmark in windowed mode

https://unigine.com/products/heaven/download/

once the screen freezes just restart and use your last setting minus about 10-20MHz then start overclocking your memory by 10 MHz at a time until the same thing happens and the screen goes black then restart and use a setting that is about 10-20 less than when it failed.
 
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