Did my overclock damage my GPU?

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HoboJoe527

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So i recently got a Asus Strix 1060 6GB and went to the ASUS official app and customized the voltage and other stuff to the maximum possible (meaning i overclocked) not being aware of the maximum it can handle, but when i applied the changes, the screen went black and there was no signal on the monitor, so i had to force shut down with the power button so i rebooted there was a little freeze and it was back to normal. Because this happened, would it do any major damages to the gpu? or was it just a temporary thing? So the thing i want to know is will the cause of this make any permanent major damages or did it not affect me at all and was just a momentarily thing that happened?
 
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Gpu Tweak, just like Evga Precision X or MSI Afterburner or Gigabyte Firestorm is all generic. They aren't tailored for 1 card specifically. So you'll get a very high range on the possible settings. The software has to be able to OC a 1080ti or a 960. So pinning the sliders to max (not the best idea) you just over-overclocked the card into a range that made it totally unstable and it pretty much gave you the finger and shut down. Once that happened, the gpus bios reset to last known good configuration and allowed the reboot.

What you'll find is that the sliders go way beyond the cards ability to remain stable, so if you do choose to retry OC, look at the default settings first. Then use the built-in OC profiles and see what changes...
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TechyInAZ

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Nvidia specifically set a hard voltage lock at 1.93v, so there is absolutely no way you could of damaged your card for such a short period of time at max voltage. It was probably caused by instability.

However, I wouldn't recommend running 1.93v for 24/7 use. But for short amounts of time, it's harmless.

Correction: It's 1.093v. Thx Vellinious
 
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Karadjgne

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Gpu Tweak, just like Evga Precision X or MSI Afterburner or Gigabyte Firestorm is all generic. They aren't tailored for 1 card specifically. So you'll get a very high range on the possible settings. The software has to be able to OC a 1080ti or a 960. So pinning the sliders to max (not the best idea) you just over-overclocked the card into a range that made it totally unstable and it pretty much gave you the finger and shut down. Once that happened, the gpus bios reset to last known good configuration and allowed the reboot.

What you'll find is that the sliders go way beyond the cards ability to remain stable, so if you do choose to retry OC, look at the default settings first. Then use the built-in OC profiles and see what changes were made, and by how much. If you go further, do it in very small increments, and test between each.

My Strix both default to 100%. Gaming mode is 106%. OC mode is 108%. Silent mode is 92%. My personal OC on both my 660ti and 970 is 124%. Took 2 full days of testing to get that level, mixing voltages, power limits, memory and base clocks. None of the sliders is anywhere close to max except for the power limits.

So don't do that again.
 
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HoboJoe527

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Thats good to know, thanks a lot!

 
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Vellinious

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You forgot a 0....it's 1.093v.

 
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