Overclocking your GPU and Power consumption

Seabass101 · May 18, 2016

Hi, I wanted to know if you put the power limit to max lets say its 120% and you don't change the voltage or another thing else could that ruin your Gpu card? So is setting you power limit only allowing your Gpu to grab more power when needed or is it forcing it to grab more power?

Any Answer is much appreciated

Thanks

Math Geek · May 18, 2016

it only allows it to get more if it needs it. the card will only pull the power it needs and will idle nice and low like it always does.

JackNaylorPE · May 18, 2016

There is nothing yo0u can do with MSI Afterburner or similar tools which can break anything, without:

a) Physically modifying the card
b) Putting in a hacked BIOS
c) Starving it of air flow.

While competitive overclockers use a set fixed voltage on the CPus in the hopes of moving up a notch or 2 on website leader boards, practical overclockers who use their machines 24/7 normally won't do this. Instead they will use an offset or adaptive method in whioch in idle, your CPU is sitting at 800 Hz and only climbes to the OC level when the load placed on the CPU can use it.

GPU overclocking, normally, works the same way. Yes, you can lick the voltage on a GPU, but it has no practical value. When you slide the voltage bar up to max and the power up to max, it will on;y 'go there" when you have the GPU under max load. nVidia has loicked their cards down so hard, both legally and physically as to what can be done overclocking wise, that you would really have to make a very special effort to damage today's cards.

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