Asus GTX 1070 Dual

[MarkTheDead]

I've been trying to carefully overclock my card, moving at the slightest increments and making sure it's a stable overclock, no artifacts or any tearing and in the middle of oc'ing a game like GTA V my screen will checker, flash colors, and crash. Am I just unable to period?

I had the core clock at +150, and mem clock at +300 and still got crashing.
Aside from the GPU, I'm running a Coolermaster 550w Elite, i7 4770, and 12 GB Ripjaw ram.
I replaced the PSU and eliminated that possibility.


On an important side note, I forgot to include temps. CPU was running at peak 60c, and GPU was never higher than 74c.

Thanks in advance!

 

[oobymach]

Try the gpu at 125 and the ram at 233, power limit 107%, that's my stable zone with sli 1070's. Also make your own fan curve with your oc software, I have just 2 points on my curve, 40% @ 40 degrees and 80% @ 60 degrees. It runs when it's needed but not at full blast so it's not noisy.

 

[amtseung]

One thing to keep in mind with overclocking is that just because it's stable running one program doesn't mean it's stable running all programs.

For example, I could reach absurdly high stable core clock speeds with my old HD7950 (flashed to an HD7970 GHZ edition) while running Unigine Valley, but on the same settings, Unigine Heaven would crash every time. After retuning the settings to run Heaven stable, it would crash when I ran Blade and Soul. After reretuning the settings to run Blade and Soul stable, it would crash every time I got past the menus in Planetside 2. After rereretuning the settings to run stable in Planetside 2, it would crash every time I ran TERA.

And after that card gave up the ghost and I got this 380x, it was a whole other animal. It liked Heaven more than valley, hated anything using ambient occlusion, ran TERA better than Heaven...

 

[MarkTheDead]

One thing to keep in mind with overclocking is that just because it's stable running one program doesn't mean it's stable running all programs.

For example, I could reach absurdly high stable core clock speeds with my old HD7950 (flashed to an HD7970 GHZ edition) while running Unigine Valley, but on the same settings, Unigine Heaven would crash every time. After retuning the settings to run Heaven stable, it would crash when I ran Blade and Soul. After reretuning the settings to run Blade and Soul stable, it would crash every time I got past the menus in Planetside 2. After rereretuning the settings to run stable in Planetside 2, it would crash every time I ran TERA.

And after that card gave up the ghost and I got this 380x, it was a whole other animal. It liked Heaven more than valley, hated anything using ambient occlusion, ran TERA better than Heaven...

That makes sense, but from what I understand the card is Overclocked out of the box. It would work and just randomly crash on nearly anything. Pulling down the core to ~50 and from there it stayed at a stable level.
Thanks for the reply!! I was just confused, new card I got about a week ago.

 

[amtseung]

This is probably a GPU Boost 3.0 issue. You have to tune the curve correctly, so as it attempts to ramp up its own clock speeds, it's getting enough voltage. You might have a core that just needs more voltage to run happily (no one can predict Vdroop).

Either this, or I'd take a look at your power supply. What make/model is it, and what is in the rest of your system?