Hi guys, yester I build my first rig...
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £187.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 530W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £66.95
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CW) - Blue Light £59.99
1 x Zalman Z9 USB 3.0 Midi Tower Case - Black £54.98
1 x Thermalright Macho 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £29.99
Total : £743.98 (includes shipping : £11.75).
and today i'm gonna overclock for the first time.
I've managed to overclock my cpu, that was pretty simple. Although I've only upped it from 3.4GHz to a steady 4.2GHz without adjusting the voltages and coretemp says it reaches about 53C max on a full load.
But i've been trying to OC my GPU and i'm a bit stumped, I don't to damage it.
At stock level my GPU clock is 1000MHz and memory clock is 1250 (is this the situation where people use 1000/1250 for the values?).
I managed to up it to 1100/1350 and it did a full banchmark test on Heaven without changing the voltage and it seemed to run ok.
I then tried to push it a step further by increasing the values to 1200/1450 and tried to run another heaven benchmark.
A couple of seconds in, the screen went fully grey verticle lines. I could still hear the music from heaven in the background and I had to hold the power button to turn off my pc.
Is that a bad thing? Or is that just my GPU not being able to handle the overclock without my increasing the voltage?
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £187.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 530W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £66.95
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CW) - Blue Light £59.99
1 x Zalman Z9 USB 3.0 Midi Tower Case - Black £54.98
1 x Thermalright Macho 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £29.99
Total : £743.98 (includes shipping : £11.75).
and today i'm gonna overclock for the first time.
I've managed to overclock my cpu, that was pretty simple. Although I've only upped it from 3.4GHz to a steady 4.2GHz without adjusting the voltages and coretemp says it reaches about 53C max on a full load.
But i've been trying to OC my GPU and i'm a bit stumped, I don't to damage it.
At stock level my GPU clock is 1000MHz and memory clock is 1250 (is this the situation where people use 1000/1250 for the values?).
I managed to up it to 1100/1350 and it did a full banchmark test on Heaven without changing the voltage and it seemed to run ok.
I then tried to push it a step further by increasing the values to 1200/1450 and tried to run another heaven benchmark.
A couple of seconds in, the screen went fully grey verticle lines. I could still hear the music from heaven in the background and I had to hold the power button to turn off my pc.
Is that a bad thing? Or is that just my GPU not being able to handle the overclock without my increasing the voltage?
