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Started by cynicoren | | 5 answers
OC a Sapphire HD 7850 GPU with stock cooling
Hello,

Do you think stock cooling fan is enough to oc this card ( with the catalyst software) ?

How much oc "can it take" using stock cooling ?

What are normal temps for this card after oc ?

Thank you
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a c 167 K Overclocking
October 15, 2014 11:41:11 AM

Main thing is the clock rates, increasing volts will able stability on higher clocks and so on. Your temp is good and if you are happy with performance no need to mess with volts.
October 15, 2014 10:57:13 AM

There are a few options to play with in afterburner - core voltage, power limit, core clock and memory clock, while in catalyst there are only the last 3 options. What do they mean? Are moving them all up increase performance ( I took memory +core clock to the limit, played Borderland, temp was 60 max so I guess these 2 are ok.) .Should I monitor the motherboard too ? BTW I'm using a 19" screen, are these setting are overkill for such a (relatively) small screen ?

Thanks again, and again, and again...

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a c 167 K Overclocking
October 15, 2014 7:58:51 AM

MSI afterburner has all the functions to monitor everything and OC the card. I use coretemp on all my rigs just to monitor. GPU-z is another popular one.
October 15, 2014 7:55:50 AM

rolli59 said:
Should be fine, just monitor temps. Goal is not to exceed 85°C under load max temp is around mid 90° and 10% OC should be achievable if not more.


Thank you. Can you please recommend a GPU temperature monitoring software ?
a c 167 K Overclocking
October 15, 2014 6:15:36 AM

Should be fine, just monitor temps. Goal is not to exceed 85°C under load max temp is around mid 90° and 10% OC should be achievable if not more.

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