Can't overclock my AMD card!!! What the heck?

[MCsumz]

I just can't overclock my AMD card, It is almos fully new, I have bought it appr. 2 1-2 weeks ago, I didn't try to do it yet, just recently. (I have got a new monitor which is full HD, and before that I had an 1440x900 resolution one, but also I haven't tried overclocking on that monitor.) So I have an AMD r9 270x OC, It runs on 1120Mhz, but I could make it to 1400MHz, I have 8Gbs of ram, and my CPU is definetly not holding the thing back. So the problem is that, It doesn"t matter whether I try to do it from Asus Gpu tweak, or AMD Catalyst program, when I overclock It, at first nothing happens and It seems to work, then when I start the game the same situation remains, but when I get in the game, like when the hard graphichal part comes, It immediately dies, the monitor blink once, then the game freezes, and windows says: "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered". And also my chrome breaks too when this happens. In some other cases, If I overclock it to the max, the whole Pc dies and I have to restart it. I've also tried adjusting the Gpu voltage according to the Core clock speed, but It doesn't make any sense. I checked the PCI-e connectors and reconnected the video card, but no changes. Everything worked propely until now, I was able to overclock my previous card to something like 1200Mhz, but this one doesn't seem to be working. I tried software fixes, from Microsoft too, still nothing. So I'm starting to think that I'ts a hardware problem, I don't think my GPU is broken, and I have come across a site that says, I don't have enough ram for this. (My ram is definetly properly connected) Soo what do you think? Can the problem be the ram, or Is it something else?

[Alex704]

I think it would be related to your graphics card. When you overclock it are you going up in small amounts or just maxing it out? You need to take it slow to see what your card can hadle. Remember that there is some degree of luck with your GPU and your overclocking headroom.

[MCsumz]

Well, honestly I was just maxing it out, but then I will watch a video about it on youtube!

By the way thanks for your reply!

[VanGoghComplex]

Just "going to max" right off the bat is dangerous. There's a small chance you might fry your card, ESPECIALLY if you're messing with voltage settings!

Return your card to stock settings and spend some time reading about overclocking before you touch it again. You're lucky nothing burned, friend; you'd be SOL, as AMD will not replace a card that got fried from overclocking too aggressively.

[videogames]

Don't overclock if you don't know how to do it.
Download MSI Afterburner. Max out power limit, set a target temp for the GPU and prioritize that (recommended 80C max). Then you raise your clocks slowly (+25Mhz or so at most) and test. You can test by running various benchmarks, Furmark, Valley, Heaven, Firestrike. Run it for a bit, and if you don't have any driver crashes or weird artifacts (random squares / colored blocks or blobs / screen flashes), raise the clocks a bit further and test again. When artifacts or crashes start happening, dial it back to a safe point. Monitor your temps closely, if your GPU hits the target temperature and starts throttling you'll either want a more aggressive fan profile or dial the clocks back; there's no use in overclocking if it's going to throttle and run worse than before.
After you finish tuning test for an extended period of time; run Furmark for half an hour or so, do a few runs of Unigine Heaven and Valley, and 3DMark Firestrike. If it's unstable, dial it back again and repeat. Then go play some games to make sure.
Leave your voltages unchanged; you absolutely don't want to mess with this if you don't know what you're doing. If you have a crap power supply you shouldn't touch the power limit settings at all.

[yberkurko]

The overclocking settings these days about always go way higher than any real life overclock you can achieve... so maxing oc settings right away isn't way to go; some old cards you couldn't change oc much so you usualy could just max it without problems.

[MCsumz]

Ok! I will keep in mind!:)

[Long Ago [Linux]]

Watching videos can sometimes be misleading if something changed since then. For example I saw a video about using Afterburner with my GTX 750 Ti and in the video he just ran the GPU clock slider all the way up. So I tried that, but oops, had to do a hard shutdown. An Afterburner update changed the GPU clock slider from +135 max to +1000 max. My card will run +220 GPU clock no problem, but not +1000.

[MCsumz]

Thanks for the advice!:) I will try videogames' tutorial, that seems safe.