Overclocking with stock cooling

Gaminator11

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Hello, I just finished building my first PC a couple weeks ago, and was a bit curious about something. I have a humble GTX 970, because I wanted to stick to Nvidia and this was the best I could get for my budget, and I haven't done anything special to cool it besides the standard fan that comes preplaced on the GPU, and the 3 fans preinstalled in my case (1 large front, 1 medium top, 1 medium rear). I was thinking of overclocking, but I can't afford another type of cooling right now. Do you think my 970 would be okay and not overheat with just the stock cooling I have, or is it at high risk of malfunctioning under these conditions. Thanks-

(PS: My computer is in a room that is room temperature, so not too hot but not really cool either. Also, the air coming out of my rear fan is warm, but not really warm/hot)
 
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You have some room for overclocking certainly.

That's not a lowly card; for what reason do you think you need to overclock?

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Some AMD users on Reddit lecturing me on how their 390 is much better than my 970 and how my card sucks because of the 3.5+5 gab vram issue
 

Simran Jeet

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run some gpu benchmarks (gpu stress test are better) and keep tracking ur gpu temperatures if gpu temperatures are low than oc it (do not reach more than 75 or 80 degree more temperature causes shorter lifespan nomatter its a gpu or a cpu) over clock ur gpu every time a little and again do this process
 

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