Can Afterburner harm the GPU

[Drewblue]

As long as I don't change the voltage, would messing around damage the gpu? And what do you think the max safe clock is for the msi gtx 950 is? I got to 1588 and Im worried I went to high? Advice? Thanks

 

[cdabc123]

nope get it as high as you can. run a test like unigine heaven to test its stability

 

[Drewblue]

I am using heaven to test and with max settings and arent getting artifacts/crashes. Should I try bumbing it to 1600 mhz? I dont want to risk anything. .-.

 

[cdabc123]

I am using heaven to test and with max settings and arent getting artifacts/crashes. Should I try bumbing it to 1600 mhz? I dont want to risk anything. .-.

you wont hurt the chip if your not messing with voltages and it wont hurt even if you did bump the voltage by abit. are your temps good?

 

[Drewblue]

my temps are around 64-65 Celsius

 

[cdabc123]

my temps are around 64-65 Celsius

ok you should continue you can get to the mid 80s and still have headroom

 

[Drewblue]

So maybe stop at 1600 mhz and when I try playing a game such as Minecraft, it seems to only go to the boost clock max and fluctuates a lot, yet in Heaven I get that 1588, it seems capped. any ideas how to fix sorta?

 

[cdabc123]

go into afterburner settings and enable extended overclocking limits. use gpu-z to see the freq when playing

 

[Drewblue]

Thanks mate, it's getting late with me attempting stuff at night. I'll try this tomorrow, again thanks a lot. If I have any more questions could I pm you?

 

[cdabc123]

Thanks mate, it's getting late with me attempting stuff at night. I'll try this tomorrow, again thanks a lot. If I have any more questions could I pm you?

sure

 

[Drewblue]

Back today, the setting doesn't seem to stay put, all the others do, but after pressing okay and checking the settings, it becomes unset. Any ideas? There isn't an apply button for settings. This is the prntscr of my settings+overclock

 

[cdabc123]

oh thats strange afterburner is showing performance state 1 (the one it uses when idling) instead of the under load clock. it says gpu 5 at the top do you have 5 gpus in this rig?

 

[Drewblue]

That was a mistake but it considers r5 integrates as 4, probably a bug. It doesn't seem limited even though it didnt stay checked though.