How i do overclock safe on a gtx 550 ti cyclone 2 oc ver

[Hyper92]

I want to now how change the cpu and voltage on msi afterburner without killing my gpu and not cut the time of life. Before i changed somenthing and it crash my pc two times, so i want more fps in my games but without crashing.

Sorry for my very bad english :c

[r.linder]

Overclocking is basically trial and error until you find the right clocks and voltages, and going above the default settings will lower the lifespan of the card because you're forcing higher voltage through the card when you're overclocking, especially since 550 Ti cards don't really have amazing cooling to begin with as it's an ancient budget card.

If the card gets fried, it's not much of a loss because it's only a 550 Ti, which is surpassed by the iGPUs in Ryzen desktop APUs by a pretty significant margin, and any overclock you can pull off will not make it much better at all. They're a dime a dozen.

[𝔇ave]

don't mess with the voltage. you would be lucky if you get more than 910mhz on the core without it crashing. i got my old 560 to 935mhz but from what i read back in the day that was a pretty high clock that not many reached. you won't be getting much extra performance in modern games with that gpu

[Ralf]

Originally posted by Dave:

you would be lucky if you get more than 910mhz on the core without it crashing. i got my old 560 to 935mhz but from what i read back in the day that was a pretty high clock that not many reached.

Well OP must be extremely lucky since Cyclone II comes with 950MHz : https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/N550GTXTi_Cyclone_II_1GD5OC/Specification
Techpowerup reached 1058MHz : https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GeForce_GTX_550_Ti_Cyclone_II/26.html

GTX550Ti baseclock is 900MHz while GTX560 is 810MHz, so you cant really compare it.

[𝔇ave]

Originally posted by Ralf:

Originally posted by Dave:

you would be lucky if you get more than 910mhz on the core without it crashing. i got my old 560 to 935mhz but from what i read back in the day that was a pretty high clock that not many reached.

Well OP must be extremely lucky since Cyclone II comes with 950MHz : https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/N550GTXTi_Cyclone_II_1GD5OC/Specification
Techpowerup reached 1058MHz : https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GeForce_GTX_550_Ti_Cyclone_II/26.html

GTX550Ti baseclock is 900MHz while GTX560 is 810MHz, so you cant really compare it.

yea ok fair enough. shoulda done my research.. i assumed it would have a similair clock to the 560. even still overclocking the snot out of it won't yield much of a performance boost