Buying a GTX Titan X, thinking of overclocking.. is it dangerous?

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HadySoliman

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So I should receive my GTX Titan X within the next week (hopefully) :love:

I've never done GPU overclocking. Heck I don't even know how to do it, I'll learn it tho. My question is, is overclocking hard? is it dangerous?

Say I make a mistake while adjusting settings etc, will it harm my GPU or potentially my PC?

I need your advice guys, this forum has been great so far.

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Should be fine as long as you don't go crazy with it. With nvidia restriction I don't now if you can push the clock and voltage to the point where it can damage the gpu.
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What are you going to do with your Titan X? What CPU do you have? You very likely won't need to overclock it. It will only reduce the lifespan of such an expensive GPU. It won't harm your PC (except if your PSU sucks) but it will definitely harm your $1200 GPU.
 
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HadySoliman

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I will do alot of gaming, and in the future i will do movie rendering/twitch streaming. My CPU is i7 4820k 3.70GHz. my PSU is 875W
 
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OCing is neither hard nor dangerous but it does make the card run hotter than usual. Which in turn, as fliger5 mentioned, reduces the lifespan of the card. On a card like Titan X, it's highly unlikely that you'll need to OC. Unless you're playing at 4k res. Even then the performance gain would be minimal and not worth OCing for. I suggest you keep the card as cool as possible to maximize its lifespan.
 
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Reaper_7799

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I agree with renz. Maybe try to get it under water at some point, that way you can keep the temps way down, should help negate any lifespan degredation, if that even occurs. And if you run 4K now, oc does help...every little bit helps in 4K with the demanding games.

The overclocking itself is really easy. Just download msi afterburner, turn the power limiter up to 110% (not the voltage) and adjust the sliders for coreclock and memory up by 50mhz at a time, then go run a benchmark and make sure you don't crash or get any artifacts. Then you can keep upping that till you find your max overclock and start getting driver crashes. Then just pick a spot somewhere inbetween.
 
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