Salutations,
As the title suggests I'm interesting in learning the best way in which to overclock my graphics cards. Currently I am using a mixture of EVGA Precision X and Kombuster but I'm having trouble finding a stable overclock. Firstly I'd like to point out that at the moment I'm using the stock voltages and currently want to get the best possible overclock out of my cards with the stock voltages. I'm using a combinations of MSI Lightning which is at 1.2v and a Zotac which is 1.1v.
So here's what's happened so far, I started by running Kombusters stress test setting panel with the stock rock like formation that spins around. I then un-synced my cards and overclocked each one manually until I noticed some artifacts. I started by overclocking the memory clock first then the gpu core, I did this because if you go too high with the core the drivers will most likely crash meaning I have to restart my PC so it was easier for me to use the memory clock first. Anyway after about 30 minutes of trial and error I managed to overclock both cards without any artifacting or problems at least I believed. Yesterday I played Battlefield 3 for about 50 minutes without any issues using my overclock however later yesterday evening my drivers crashed three times whilst playing BF3 so I had to restart my PC three times and each time I slowly lowered each cards overclock both memory and core. Anyway it just wouldn't have it and I've had to put them both back down to their stock values.
So that's really it, I don't understand how it worked perfectly fine one day but the next it just all went downhill, what am I doing wrong?
regards -Skeng
As the title suggests I'm interesting in learning the best way in which to overclock my graphics cards. Currently I am using a mixture of EVGA Precision X and Kombuster but I'm having trouble finding a stable overclock. Firstly I'd like to point out that at the moment I'm using the stock voltages and currently want to get the best possible overclock out of my cards with the stock voltages. I'm using a combinations of MSI Lightning which is at 1.2v and a Zotac which is 1.1v.
So here's what's happened so far, I started by running Kombusters stress test setting panel with the stock rock like formation that spins around. I then un-synced my cards and overclocked each one manually until I noticed some artifacts. I started by overclocking the memory clock first then the gpu core, I did this because if you go too high with the core the drivers will most likely crash meaning I have to restart my PC so it was easier for me to use the memory clock first. Anyway after about 30 minutes of trial and error I managed to overclock both cards without any artifacting or problems at least I believed. Yesterday I played Battlefield 3 for about 50 minutes without any issues using my overclock however later yesterday evening my drivers crashed three times whilst playing BF3 so I had to restart my PC three times and each time I slowly lowered each cards overclock both memory and core. Anyway it just wouldn't have it and I've had to put them both back down to their stock values.
So that's really it, I don't understand how it worked perfectly fine one day but the next it just all went downhill, what am I doing wrong?
regards -Skeng
