Did I damage my GPU?

[TheKid870]

I have an XFX RX 480 gtr card and I fear I may have damaged it. It's showing no noticeable signs so I thought I would just get some opinions by asking people more knowledgeable than me. So I've been playing Fallout 4 and in certain parts of the game the frame rate was awful so I looked for tweaks I could make to correct that. One of the suggestions I read said that my card had a power limit in place so I maxed the power and temp targets in wattman. I figured doing a small overclock couldn't hurt and here is where my trouble starts. So I know nothing about overclocking and I did something very stupid, I went to manually change the frequency and not seeing the percent sign in parenthesis I set it to 13.5 thinking it was an abbreviation of 1350 Mhz rather than a 13.5% overclock. I clicked apply and my screen went black for 3-5 seconds but then came back. The video I was watching black-screened but other tabs could still play videos but wattman would not respond afterwards. It was just a blank window of the reddish background color and it would not respond given a few minutes time. I logged off, logged back in and everything seems to be working fine games and watmann included. No performance drop, highest temp I got on fallout was 81c but the black screen has me worried. So my question is could changing the frequency from idle to a 13.5% overclock with one click have damaged my gpu in any way? I didn't touch any power setting besides the allowable amount to be drawn just the frequency.

 

[dontlistentome]

Any kind of overclocking has the potential to damage the component. If it could safely run that much faster, the company would have clocked it that way themselves and sold more cards due to the higher performance than their competitors.

This does not mean you did any permanent damage though. Sometimes when you overclock something, it simply doesn't function correctly until you remove the overclock. I'd test things by putting everything back to the default 'out of the box' settings. Then run a GPU stress test like Furmark. See if you get any anomalies or malfunctions. If not, you should be fine.

 

[_MasterG_]

you havent damaged anything. The driver crashed and the overclock was eliminated, because the driver crash things that use gpu rendering go black ( or white?)