I tried overclocking my gpu now my pc won't work

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Zrezlorez

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Okay folks so i have a custom built pc with a gtx 980 in it.. I've had it for a while and recently wanted to try overclocking using msi afterburner.. i wstched a youtube video from jayztwocents and this asshat goes, "it's totally safe to slide that bar all the way to the right"... well considering this article thats not 100% true.. i was using low increments to oc at first and heard that and decided to try.. then my screen when all rainbow spazzy and whatnot.. now everytime i boot it up because of afterburner it automatically does the same thing. Anyone have any suggestions?


Full specs if it helps:

Msi z97 gaming 5 motherboars
Msi 980 gpu
I7 4970k cpu
Windows 10
 
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Use the iGPU of your 4790K (disable the PCI-e slot or take out the GPU), reset MSI Afterburner, turn off PC and put the card back in (or restart and re-enable the PCI-e slot) and you're good to go.

The POWER LIMIT slider can go all the way to the right if you have a decent PSU, the MHz you have to test in increments (however most cards will allow you to go all the way to the right).

What is strange though, is that a modern card like that should throttle if it doesn't have enough power to reach the overclock, even my measly R9 270 does that, as does any card from the last 7 years or so. So if you try again and it fails again, you're out of luck, best leave it alone if that's the case.
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Use the iGPU of your 4790K (disable the PCI-e slot or take out the GPU), reset MSI Afterburner, turn off PC and put the card back in (or restart and re-enable the PCI-e slot) and you're good to go.

The POWER LIMIT slider can go all the way to the right if you have a decent PSU, the MHz you have to test in increments (however most cards will allow you to go all the way to the right).

What is strange though, is that a modern card like that should throttle if it doesn't have enough power to reach the overclock, even my measly R9 270 does that, as does any card from the last 7 years or so. So if you try again and it fails again, you're out of luck, best leave it alone if that's the case.
 
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