Your overclocking checklist, or what you need to set your PC on fire (not literally!) It’s up to you, but you can obviously kiss that guarantee goodbye!
Damaging the GPU will occur, however, if you decide to become a professional GPU overclocker, using LN2 or “shunt mods” to remove voltage limitations so you can feed more power to the GPU… but I wouldn’t touch that with a ten-foot pole! It’s not sustainable and gives you marginal benefits at high risk. If anything goes wrong, the laptop or PC will crash or produce visual artifacts (which is a good warning that your game is about to crash, too), but chances are slim you’ll actually damage your hardware.
Overclocking is relatively safe these days. Note that other GPU-dependent tasks might also benefit from an overclock, including multimedia rendering which is done mostly by the GPU. Without that overclock, I’d have to dial back some visual settings and make sacrifices. For example, only an overclock allows me to play Nier: Automata at 4K resolution, with maximum details at a rock solid 60 FPS. In other cases, an overclock could give you an edge when cranking up the visual details.
Everything above that cost a lot of power to achieve.11800475124 Logo Ameba Icon Security Icon Security White Icon Privacy Icon Performance Icon Privacy Icon Security Icon Performance Icons/45/01 Security/Other-Threats Icons / 32 / Bloatware removal Icons / 32 / Registry Cleaner Icons / 32 / CleanUp Icons / Feature / 32 / Mac Icons / 32 / Browser cleanup Icons/32/01 Security/Malware Icons/32/01 Security/Viruses Icons/32/01 Security/Other-Threats Icons/32/01 Security/Passwords Icons/32/01 Security/Ransomware Icons/32/01 Security/Business Icons/32/02 Privacy/Browser Icons/32/02 Privacy/IP adress Icons/32/02 Privacy/VPN Icons/32/02 Privacy/Proxy Icons/32/02 Privacy/Streaming Icons/32/03 Performance/Celaning Icons/32/03 Performance/Drivers Icons/32/03 Performance/Gaming Icons/32/03 Performance/Hardware Icons/32/03 Performance/Speed Icons / 32 / Bloatware removal Icons / 32 / Registry Cleaner Win Icons / 32 / CleanUp Icons / Feature / 32 / Mac Icons / 32 / Browser cleanup Icons/60/02 Privacy/02_Privacy Icons/60/01 Security/01_Security Icons/60/03 Performance/03_Performance Icons/80/01 Security/IoT Icons/80/01 Security/Malware Icons/80/01 Security/Passwords Icons/80/01 Security/Ransomware Icons/80/01 Security/Viruses Icons/80/01 Security/Other-Threats Icons/80/03 Security/Business Icons/80/02 Privacy/Browser Icons/80/02 Privacy/IP adress Icons/80/02 Privacy/VPN Icons/80/02 Privacy/Proxy Icons/80/02 Privacy/Streaming Icons/80/03 Performance/Celaning Icons/80/03 Performance/Drivers Icons/80/03 Performance/Gaming Icons/80/03 Performance/Hardware Icons/80/03 Performance/Speed Icons/80/03 Performance/03_Performance Icons/80/02 Privacy/02_Privacy I read somewhere that the most gain is around 1400-1450Mhz. I guess the question is, where is the sweet spot between power consumption and added performance. But I do not want to just waste power because I crank up the card to the absolute maximum just to get a few FPS extra out of the system. I am not a hard core gamer and am happy if my card can last 1 year longer with an overclock. So, how should I set up my card? My aim is to get a little bit extra out of my card. It was hard to say exactly by how much thought. Strange that the second is lower than the first.Īlso, the power consumption obviously varied. Strange thing was, that the +120Mhz core clock resulted in different max CPU clocks depending on the voltage -> 1486Mhz (+0mV), 1499Mhz (+20mV), 1512Mhz (+40mV) I tried three settings for the voltage control. I got to +120Mhz core clock and 7.800Mhz memory clock. Click to expand.So, I tested what overclock I can run with my card still stable.