I think I accidentally killed my card with this.

[Ja]

Might have made a horribly stupid mistake. Was trying to get the achievements, and turned the "GPU clock offset" slider all the way to the right. My screen suddenly turned a solid brown color and had to hard shutdown. After rebooting, it did the same thing after a couple seconds after logging into windows. I didn't know much about this program and was just trying to get the achievements. Now I'm scared I might have broken my gtx 770. Does anyone know if this is fixable? Thanks

[teemu92]

I have no idea what clock offset is and i hope your card did not suffer any damage, wait until somebody responds with info.

Only thing i have changed is fan curve, thats probably the only thing i understand completely.

[Roflmaou]

/facepalm

[Ja]

Originally posted by Roflmaou:

/facepalm

I know. And the thought of having to spend another $400 isn't making it better.

[Hyuga]

You don't even need to hit apply.

[WOLF PACIFIER]

Originally posted by Ja:

Might have made a horribly stupid mistake. Was trying to get the achievements, and turned the "GPU clock offset" slider all the way to the right. My screen suddenly turned a solid brown color and had to hard shutdown. After rebooting, it did the same thing after a couple seconds after logging into windows. I didn't know much about this program and was just trying to get the achievements. Now I'm scared I might have broken my gtx 770. Does anyone know if this is fixable? Thanks

I guess you saved profile with maxed clocks. When Windows starts, system probably launching EVGA PrecisionX at startup.
If so - you must boot your OS under Windows safe mode http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/what-is-safe-mode#1TC=windows-7

If you have Windows 7, then just hit F8 key untill you will see OS boot options, then pick a safe mode and uninstall PrecisionX WITHOUT saving PrecisionX settings.
Right after you can restart your PC.

Try it.

[RedLightning]

I did not see any notice on the store page that this can break cards and also void your graphics card warrenty.. should be in BIG BOLD LETTERS on the storefront.

[Yanahma]

Originally posted by RedLightning:

I did not see any notice on the store page that this can break cards and also void your graphics card warrenty.. should be in BIG BOLD LETTERS on the storefront.

Its an overclocking tool - if those two things aren't immediately obvious to you, don't use the tool.

[Ja]

Originally posted by Rocket Scientist:

Originally posted by Ja:

Might have made a horribly stupid mistake. Was trying to get the achievements, and turned the "GPU clock offset" slider all the way to the right. My screen suddenly turned a solid brown color and had to hard shutdown. After rebooting, it did the same thing after a couple seconds after logging into windows. I didn't know much about this program and was just trying to get the achievements. Now I'm scared I might have broken my gtx 770. Does anyone know if this is fixable? Thanks

I guess you saved profile with maxed clocks. When Windows starts, system probably launching EVGA PrecisionX at startup.
If so - you must boot your OS under Windows safe mode http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/what-is-safe-mode#1TC=windows-7

If you have Windows 7, then just hit F8 key untill you will see OS boot options, then pick a safe mode and uninstall PrecisionX WITHOUT saving PrecisionX settings.
Right after you can restart your PC.

Try it.

That fixed it! Thank you! That's a relief.

[WOLF PACIFIER]

Originally posted by Ja:

Originally posted by Rocket Scientist:

I guess you saved profile with maxed clocks. When Windows starts, system probably launching EVGA PrecisionX at startup.
If so - you must boot your OS under Windows safe mode http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/what-is-safe-mode#1TC=windows-7

If you have Windows 7, then just hit F8 key untill you will see OS boot options, then pick a safe mode and uninstall PrecisionX WITHOUT saving PrecisionX settings.
Right after you can restart your PC.

Try it.

That fixed it! Thank you! That's a relief.

Now you can reinstall PrecisionX and give us another shoot
If seriously - you can reinstall this app and use it more carefully.

[Ja]

Originally posted by Rocket Scientist:

Originally posted by Ja:

That fixed it! Thank you! That's a relief.

Now you can reinstall PrecisionX and give us another shoot :D:
If seriously - you can reinstall this app and use it more carefully.

Yeah lesson learned. I'll have to research the program, before pushing random buttons, hoping for achievements. Thanks again.

[Biggles]

Originally posted by Yanahma:

Originally posted by RedLightning:

I did not see any notice on the store page that this can break cards and also void your graphics card warrenty.. should be in BIG BOLD LETTERS on the storefront.

Its an overclocking tool - if those two things aren't immediately obvious to you, don't use the tool.

The fact is, people will pick this tool up not understanding that, as no warning is provided. There are, I'd wager, a lot of people who overclock without actually understanding the purpose and dangers of doing it. Actually, I don't have to wager at all. I have close friends who've overclocked their systems into oblivion because of a lack of the fundamental knowledge required to safely do it.

So far, none of this is a knock against this tool specifically.

My issue with this release of Precision X is that its achievements page actively encourages excessive, dangerous overclocking. One in particular encourages setting your GPU's clock to 2 GHz, which is a terrible idea for all but a handful of existing cards.

The fact is, this is a release that promotes dangerous modification of a GPU's function, and only warns against its danger within its own fine print. For a company as traditionally user-focused as EVGA, this is a glaring oversight. I don't imagine the topic creator's story to be a unique one if this tool remains downloadable as-is.

And for the record, I say this as a proud owner of an EVGA card, and a happy user of their non-steam release of the Precision X tool.

[dementedlullaby]

I agree, this isn't a great tool to throw on the store without any warnings and the achievements make it worse for those "OCD" people.

For a 2 GHz oc don't you need to run on LN2? I can't imagine even a high end water cooling system will be able to keep a decent temp at that speed =/. I did download the product out of interest but was already running it prior to the Steam release.

EVGA GTX 780 SC 6gb owner here. Thinking about buying another one for SLI.

[Biggles]

Temperature at that speed is barely even an important factor anymore, stability is. Something will go wrong far before it heats to a ridiculous level. These cards are pretty carefully timed. A clock rate of 2GHz isn't going to be possible without also significantly upping the memory bus, and the 700-series cards are pushing it already in terms of what the GDDR5 specification can do. And honestly, it's a pretty silly concept anyway, you're not actually getting better performance if you've maxed out a bus, the cached backlog will cripple your GPU, HDD transfer, and even system RAM.

The only 2GHz overclock that I'm aware of required the user to solder a total of 16GB of additional VRAM onto the PCB of his card to account for memory clock limitations, in addition to using an LN2 system. Very, very few people are going to care enough to do this. I certainly don't, and I tweak my system an embarrassing amount.

I should help everyone who happens upon this, honestly, since this thread is getting some posts.

The average user never has to overclock. Getting a real benefit from it requires a solid background in the relationship between your GPU's core clock and memory bandwidth, as well as caching behavior between the two.

But let's say you're really stoked on overclocking because you want that couple frames extra per second. Please, everyone new to overclocking who finds this post, promise me you'll do two things.

1) Practice on cards that didn't cost you $300 or more first. An old gpu is fine. Overclocking effectively is a skill that takes practice and research.

2) NEVER EVER EVER EVER modify your card's firmware. If you're going to overclock, use software. Modifying the firmware, I can almost guarantee, will void your warranty.

[Stexred]

just moving that slider and apply wont do anything untill you actualy run a game or benchmark

the most dangerous thing is probably the voltage slider

but if you want achievs just go for the lowest increase

also the left and right arrow will decrease/increase with -1/+1 on the gpu/mem sliders

[KungFuFishy]

lul