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RedneckFirework

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i decided to try overclocking and when i was doing this i go my memory up to 550 and it was all stable and then i decided to take the clock speed and start working on that and i got up to 240 and then my graphics drivers crashed and windows said that they rebooted but my system won't recognize my card and when i load up a game it works perfectly fine so i know my card is working just fine. i need help from someone who knows how to overclock. please tell me how to do this right because i looked up online and i saw most people get a lot more than 200 on their clock speed and it is confusing me, do i just have a bad card for overclocking? or am i doing something wrong? in the mean time i am just gonna try to get my system to at least recognize that i have a card installed in my system. thanks for any help i can get

i have a gtx 980
 
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Hi, for overclocking the general principle is to do it in small increments, then test the system with a heavy load.

This might be 10 or 15mhz increments with a 5 or 10 minute stress test for your GPU. Make absolutely sure your temperatures are within an acceptable range.

In your case the 980 should never reach 80c. If you encounter a crash you've gone too far, and you just need to take a step back and run a much more comprehensive stress test (several hours if you can) in order to determine your system stability.

Temperatures need monitored regularly during this period as well, to limit the chances of damage to your components.

Overclocking comes with some risk, like you encountered- your driver may have corrupted as a result of a...
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Can we get some system specs and a better phrased post?
Difficult to understand with a large text dump with very questionable sentence structure ^.^ <3.
 
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sorry. my specs are
i5 4690k
asrock b85 anniversary mobo
gtx 980
8gb ram
the problem i am having is that i tried overclocking my card and windows told me the display drivers crashed and everything started going weird and now my system won't recognize my card. it boots fine and runs games fine but no software will detect my card
 
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Hi, for overclocking the general principle is to do it in small increments, then test the system with a heavy load.

This might be 10 or 15mhz increments with a 5 or 10 minute stress test for your GPU. Make absolutely sure your temperatures are within an acceptable range.

In your case the 980 should never reach 80c. If you encounter a crash you've gone too far, and you just need to take a step back and run a much more comprehensive stress test (several hours if you can) in order to determine your system stability.

Temperatures need monitored regularly during this period as well, to limit the chances of damage to your components.

Overclocking comes with some risk, like you encountered- your driver may have corrupted as a result of a crash. Don't look at the people boasting about their high overclock- a lot of them aren't stable and will have aftermarket cooling.

Good luck
 
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Haha nice.
Next time you overclock if you have an issue where you've pushed up the clocks too far and you can't boot, use your motherboard's CMOS button to reset all your clocks on your graphics card.
It typically has a button or a jumper you can use for this.
 
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