Overclock Too much?

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Ethan_Liem

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Hi, I just recently OC'ed my GPu which is a gtx 1060 3gb. I might have done too much. Temp was at 58 C, and the voltage was a bit high. My pc did not freeze, it hesitated once, but that is it. problem is that my Core speed and memory is now VERY low. Much lower than it used to be. I rebooted pc to find that it starts out normal, but within minutes it goes back down. Please help, i'm very scared that my GPU might've died. Also i was using Afterburner. I have not uninstalled it yet.

Edit: I opened Benchmark and The speeds went back to normal, I don't know if thats supposed to happen, but Sweet! the speeds and memory go back down when I'm not doing anything.
 
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ShadyHamster
The clock speeds are meant to go down while the card is idle, that's normal, this also happens for the CPU too.

It's near impossible to damage the card using software unless you use a modified bios, but even then voltage control is still fairly limited.
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Remove after burner after setting everything to default. No reason to OC your card probably having voltage issues with your PSU at the moment and that might be why it's jumping around like that. Some motherboards/PSU's aren't really good with OCing.
 
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The clock speeds are meant to go down while the card is idle, that's normal, this also happens for the CPU too.

It's near impossible to damage the card using software unless you use a modified bios, but even then voltage control is still fairly limited.
 
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Yup, they're supposed to do that - the GPU underclocks itself when not requiring extra speed. It's all normal, you don't have to worry :).
 
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Also if you OCed your GPU and increase the voltages manually (they are static and not on automatic) you could have the opposite effect, to avoid overheating the newer GPUs adjust the core speeds lowering then to generate less heat, and you have fixed and increased voltage and that alone generate a lot more more heat the final effect is a lower core speed under load.
 
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