If i overclock my gpu, to high and it crashes my pc can i still start my pc back up ?

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terry4536
If you are actually referring to the GPU, then you would probably experience problems with the video output before it crashed the system. But again if nothing is damaged, you can reduce the graphics card overclock with whatever overclocking utility that you are using (like MSI Afterburer).
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It will either freeze or blue screen/crash if it can't hold the freq at the current voltage. As long as your temps are OK and you're not sending it crazy amounts of voltage at a time...boot back into BIOS, give 'er some more juice, and try again.

Use a notebook and record the freq/volts and pass or fail. If it passes record the temp. Work your way up IN SMALL INCREMENTS to your acceptable temp, then back down 1 step in the notebook of pass/fails and run that OC full time.
 
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Oh crud it says GPU, lol.

From what I recall most GPUs hardcode (as in firmware) a point with voltage/power where they wont let it go past and damage the GPU. Damage is done with prolong temps and volts...not freq's.

Set the power/temp limit to max and up the freq till it fails. Watch the temps. If the temp is good then you can give it some more volts and try the freq again. No crash and good temps (should be hotter since you pushed it more juice) you can try to raise the freq again.

Rinse and repeat.

Do the core first. Then you can worry about the memory clock without having to worry about voltage/power adjustments.
 
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Yep. That's why I made the second comment. The first was because I thought it said CPU. LoL.

If you use the utility you can't do any damage so long as you're not letting the card overheat forever. Even then don't they have temp limits in most?

Last card I used ASUS GPU Tweak and it had a slide for temp that stopped at the danger point, but I never got close to it.
 
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If you are actually referring to the GPU, then you would probably experience problems with the video output before it crashed the system. But again if nothing is damaged, you can reduce the graphics card overclock with whatever overclocking utility that you are using (like MSI Afterburer).
 
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