Graphics Card Overclock Stable?

[L15T3R]

Hey was just wondering, i have a GTS 450 1gb GDDR5 GFX card with a stock 783/1566/1804 and i have it overclocked using msi afterburner to 930/1860/1850 its running at 66 degrees max with furmark 3D and there is no artefacts, do you think this is stable enough and are the temperatures okay?
Is this a good overclock?

Thanks Chris

 

[kevbiss1]

Best thing to do is load up a game and see how you get on,if you get no freezing or artifacts then your good,keep an eye on temps,games are always a better test than furmark

 

[L15T3R]

Okay I loaded up skyrim and its increased in performance quite a bit from 40fps to 55-60 the temps also don't go above 52 degrees in game, so could you say its stable enough? No artifacts or anything at all and no freezes.
Thanks Chris

 

[arc@css]

Test the overclock with at least a couple more games, if you consisently see the same performance in other titles then you can safely say that is a great overclock!

 

[xsistor]

Furmark isn't good for testing stability of newer cards -- at least not the last time I checked which was earlier this year. DX11 cards need to be tested with DX11 games and the Heaven benchmark.

Also OCCT is good for testing if it produces errors at a particular benchmark -- but OCCT is also a lot more stressful on the GPU and can report errors when you would have no errors running any game. The primary reason being, the GPU temps will rise well beyond normal on an OCCT test. What I do is test if OCCT reports errors at the highest temps I see in the games I play. e.g. my card peaks at around 53C on the most taxing games. So I test if OCCt reports errors upto 55C. I find that for some of my extreme OCs, OCCT starts reporting errors at around 58C but that's a temp my card never rises to.

 

[L15T3R]

Okay ill try a few more games out and see what i get, and then i hopefully try out OCCT up to around 60c and hopefuly i get no errors!
Thanks Chris