970 overclock help

[TinTin700]

I overclocked my MSI GTX 970 with afterburner core clock +200 and memory +220 and ran valley and did benchmark and it was fine but then 10 minutes later while on desktop windows says my gpu driver failed and then was recovered so what should I do now?

 

[Mugglensu1984]

That means your OC is not stable. Did you increase the voltage and the power limit? If not you may want to do so. If you did and still the display driver crashed then you have to lower the OC a bit and try again.

 

[TinTin700]

I increased the power limit to max which was 110, didn't touch the voltage though as I read increasing voltage would shorten the life span of the GPU

 

[mrhippo900]

Sometimes high overclocks require you to raise voltages. It is recommended you get an overclock where you don't have to increase the voltages. Otherwise if you want the highest OC voltages will need to increase. When overclocking I strongly suggest you increase your clock speed in intervals of 10-15 MHz this way it will be easier to correct problems or underclock if need be.