Does overclocking GPU (without touching voltage) reduces it's life span?

[PATENT]

Just asking, increasing only mem clock and core clock without touching voltage.

[Malygos]

No and depending on the gpu voltage wont either unless you increase it a good amount

[PATENT]

Originally posted by jefedemuchanina:

No and depending on the gpu voltage wont either unless you increase it a good amount

So I can easily OC my 970 and not worry about anything?

[TehSpoopyKitteh]

Originally posted by Deval:

Originally posted by jefedemuchanina:

No and depending on the gpu voltage wont either unless you increase it a good amount

So I can easily OC my 970 and not worry about anything?

Yes and no. It depends on who made it and what model they used. ASUS Strix is ideal, but other manufacturers have different/variable factory OC's on their GTX970's as well.

The best thing to do is to run the fans at 100% and then slowly and incrementally increase milliamps until unstable, then dial back to the last stable setting, then do the same for the GPU clock. The VRAM memory clock really isn't that much of a performance gain, so you really don't need to worry about it.

[PATENT]

Originally posted by The Spoopy Kitteh:

Originally posted by Deval:

So I can easily OC my 970 and not worry about anything?

Yes and no. It depends on who made it and what model they used. ASUS Strix is ideal, but other manufacturers have different/variable factory OC's on their GTX970's as well.

The best thing to do is to run the fans at 100% and then slowly and incrementally increase milliamps until unstable, then dial back to the last stable setting, then do the same for the GPU clock. The VRAM memory clock really isn't that much of a performance gain, so you really don't need to worry about it.

I have MSI gaming 970, earlier I had 1060 3gb but damn it hated being overclock. Some games were running on 1060 insanely well with +150 on core and +500 on mem but few games were crashing after few minutes even with +50 on core. I wasn't afraid because pascal has locked voltage but maxwell doesn't. I just wanted to ask if I can do like +125 on core and +300 on memory without touching voltage and worrying that it may reduce my GPU life span.

[Malygos]

Originally posted by Deval:

Originally posted by The Spoopy Kitteh:

Yes and no. It depends on who made it and what model they used. ASUS Strix is ideal, but other manufacturers have different/variable factory OC's on their GTX970's as well.

The best thing to do is to run the fans at 100% and then slowly and incrementally increase milliamps until unstable, then dial back to the last stable setting, then do the same for the GPU clock. The VRAM memory clock really isn't that much of a performance gain, so you really don't need to worry about it.

I have MSI gaming 970, earlier I had 1060 3gb but damn it hated being overclock. Some games were running on 1060 insanely well with +150 on core and +500 on mem but few games were crashing after few minutes even with +50 on core. I wasn't afraid because pascal has locked voltage but maxwell doesn't. I just wanted to ask if I can do like +125 on core and +300 on memory without touching voltage and worrying that it may reduce my GPU life span.

Games handle overclocks differently my 1080 will only take 137 in overwrach and 144 in battlefield 1 but every other game 160+ boltage doesnt hold pascal back unless ypu are trying to push ridiculous overclocks then theres ways around it. Best thing you can do is set a conservative overclock like 100-115 and see if it crashes if it doesnt up by 10-25mhz until you find your unstable point. If you start getting artifacts back off some and stay there

[Monk]

There is all but zero risk or reduction in usable lifespan of the card, I have over clocked every card for the past 15 years.
The quick and easy approach I use, before dialing in afinal clocks is ...

Step one, in MSI afterburner turn the power and temp limit to max,.

Step two max out voltage control, it won't let it go anywhere near high enough to cause any damage.

Step 3, boot up unigine heaven benchmark, set to windowed and max settings, have it running a loop, at each increase ensure it continues to run cleanly.

Step 4, gradually increase the core clock 10MHz at a time until it crashes or you see issues, at which point pull it back 5-10MHz.

Step 5, with step 3 still running gradually increase the memory speed, you can do this in steps of 50MHz, again, repeat this process until you begin to see artifacting or crashes, at which point pull it back 50-100MHz.

Congratulations you now have an over clocked GPU, adjust the fan curve to suit your ears, as long as the card stays under 90c it's pretty much fine, cooler is better, but Maxwell doesn't auto boost so being warmer won't cause any slow down, cooler is better as always.

At this point, I would go into fine tuning and more detailed testing across multiple benchmarks and games, any issues that aren't a one off I will pull the clocks back a bit.

[PATENT]

Originally posted by jefedemuchanina:

Originally posted by Deval:

I have MSI gaming 970, earlier I had 1060 3gb but damn it hated being overclock. Some games were running on 1060 insanely well with +150 on core and +500 on mem but few games were crashing after few minutes even with +50 on core. I wasn't afraid because pascal has locked voltage but maxwell doesn't. I just wanted to ask if I can do like +125 on core and +300 on memory without touching voltage and worrying that it may reduce my GPU life span.

Games handle overclocks differently my 1080 will only take 137 in overwrach and 144 in battlefield 1 but every other game 160+ boltage doesnt hold pascal back unless ypu are trying to push ridiculous overclocks then theres ways around it. Best thing you can do is set a conservative overclock like 100-115 and see if it crashes if it doesnt up by 10-25mhz until you find your unstable point. If you start getting artifacts back off some and stay there

Overwatch really hates overclocked cards

[TehSpoopyKitteh]

Originally posted by Deval:

Originally posted by jefedemuchanina:

Games handle overclocks differently my 1080 will only take 137 in overwrach and 144 in battlefield 1 but every other game 160+ boltage doesnt hold pascal back unless ypu are trying to push ridiculous overclocks then theres ways around it. Best thing you can do is set a conservative overclock like 100-115 and see if it crashes if it doesnt up by 10-25mhz until you find your unstable point. If you start getting artifacts back off some and stay there

Overwatch really hates overclocked cards

So does StarCraft II.

[Malygos]

Originally posted by Deval:

Originally posted by jefedemuchanina:

Games handle overclocks differently my 1080 will only take 137 in overwrach and 144 in battlefield 1 but every other game 160+ boltage doesnt hold pascal back unless ypu are trying to push ridiculous overclocks then theres ways around it. Best thing you can do is set a conservative overclock like 100-115 and see if it crashes if it doesnt up by 10-25mhz until you find your unstable point. If you start getting artifacts back off some and stay there

Overwatch really hates overclocked cards

Its built in the game there post on there forums about it mods said it detects overclocks and crashes the game to avoid insatbility during ranked matches causing crashes. Which is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ i told them people stress test their rigs to prevent that and they said its just a precautionary

[PATENT]

Originally posted by jefedemuchanina:

Originally posted by Deval:

Overwatch really hates overclocked cards

Its built in the game there post on there forums about it mods said it detects overclocks and crashes the game to avoid insatbility during ranked matches causing crashes. Which is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ i told them people stress test their rigs to prevent that and they said its just a precautionary

I got few bans and lost about 150 points due to crashes...

the funniest thing is when overwatch crash you instantly lose points and can't rejoin match, that;s ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥t

[Malygos]

Originally posted by Deval:

Originally posted by jefedemuchanina:

Its built in the game there post on there forums about it mods said it detects overclocks and crashes the game to avoid insatbility during ranked matches causing crashes. Which is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ i told them people stress test their rigs to prevent that and they said its just a precautionary

the funniest thing is when overwatch crash you instantly lose points and can't rejoin match, that;s ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Yep i deleted the game its not cheating in anyway i dont want them telling me what to do with my pc ive seen quite a few people saying the game was crashing with cpu only overclocks as well which is even more bs

[PATENT]

Originally posted by jefedemuchanina:

Originally posted by Deval:

the funniest thing is when overwatch crash you instantly lose points and can't rejoin match, that;s ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Yep i deleted the game its not cheating in anyway i dont want them telling me what to do with my pc ive seen quite a few people saying the game was crashing with cpu only overclocks as well which is even more bs

it's retarded, I had 3 crashes 1 with gpu oc, 1 with ram oc and 1 with CPU oc to 4.8ghz after losing 150points I gave up and restored default settings

only in this game...

[Double Deez Nuts]

u will never have to worry about the lifespan of your CPU (if ur a gamer), as you will most likely end up buy a better one anyway within the next 2 years.

[Malygos]

Originally posted by Deval:

only in this game...

Yeah its better to run default for that game or very slight overclocks

[PATENT]

Originally posted by 🌋↪ToƦcH↩🌋:

u will never have to worry about the lifespan of your CPU (if ur a gamer), as you will most likely end up buy a better one anyway within the next 2 years.

Money is the only barrier my friend.

Originally posted by jefedemuchanina:

Originally posted by Deval:

only in this game...

Yeah its better to run default for that game or very slight overclocks

yea but it's annoying that I have to restore default clocks when I want to play 1 match in this game. And if I forget to do it oh boy -50 points incoming