I decided to be stupid and set my clock settings to maximum. I launched Crysis, and a few seconds into the first cutscene, the screen went black. The music kept on playing for a while, then the computer froze. I am at 60% fan speed. I seriously doubt it could have overheated this quickly... what went wrong?
[QUOTE=halofreak472;27888388]decided to be stupid[/QUOTE]
too high clocks make it unstable, it's not a question of heat.
[QUOTE=halofreak472;27888388]I decided to be stupid and set my clock settings to maximum. I launched Crysis, and a few seconds into the first cutscene, the screen went black. The music kept on playing for a while, then the computer froze. I am at 60% fan speed. I seriously doubt it could have overheated this quickly... what went wrong?[/QUOTE]
you really need to know what your doing when overclocking. you will end up destroying your computer that way
[QUOTE=confinedUser;27889215]you really need to know what your doing when overclocking. you will end up destroying your computer that way[/QUOTE]
Will that one-time freeze do much harm?
[QUOTE=halofreak472;27897074]Will that one-time freeze do much harm?[/QUOTE]
Probably not.
[QUOTE=halofreak472;27897074]Will that one-time freeze do much harm?[/QUOTE]
no
[editline]6th February 2011[/editline]
well what your doing when your overclocking is basicly telling the processors to run at a faster speed but in which case is stressing them if you overclock too much it does what just happened to you so if i was you I'd reset it to default and figure out what a safe oc is for your computer
Just keep going up by 10mhz then retrying until you crash. Wherever you crashed at, bump it down 15mhz then stay there. Best rule of thumb for video cards.
[QUOTE=halofreak472;27897074]Will that one-time freeze do much harm?[/QUOTE]
You can make it more stable by increasing the coltage it gets. This however really uincreases the temperature generated alot.
To do this properly get Furmark first.
Then keep increasing the clock speed by 10mhz until you cant pass the furmark benchmark annymore, make sure your temperature stays under 90C.
At this point you can increase the voltage a little to make it more stable (forgot which programm I used for this but google is your friend)
Do this until you can pass furmark again and then go ahead and increase the clockspeed again.
After a while you reach a point where no matter what you do it stays unstable or overheats.
Persoanlly I dont think its worth it to overclock a GPU and increased temperatures will shorten its life.
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