GTX 970 graphic driver crash on overclock

[bullbearings]

So I overclocked my GTX 970 (+10mv voltage, +125 core clock, +150 memory) and it was stable testing it on Furmark for a solid half an hour at 1080P. I go to play on The Division and it crashes and then the game crashes, the same happens when I try to play Arma - the graphics driver just stops working for some reason.

Is this something wrong with my graphics card, driver or what?

Details -
Graphics Card - GTX 970 G1 Gaming Gigabyte
Driver version - 364.51
OS - Windows 10 Home Premium

I don't think any more information is relevant, but if I'm wrong then just ask for more.

 

[mcnumpty23]

i think the card throttles on furmark

test your overclock on unigine heaven or valley benchmark

 

[chris987]

your psu is relevant info , what is it.? also furmark if for thermal stability! what temps are you reading after half a hour? benchmarks are good tests for driver stability but in the end real word gaming performance is the ultimate test. as you fail looks like your not stable with such o/c.

 

[bullbearings]

your psu is relevant info , what is it.? also furmark if for thermal stability! what temps are you reading after half a hour? benchmarks are good tests for driver stability but in the end real word gaming performance is the ultimate test. as you fail looks like your not stable with such o/c.

(another quote thing idk how to do it)
i think the card throttles on furmark

test your overclock on unigine heaven or valley benchmark

I will try those benchmarks when I have the time to.
My PSU is the something like RM 650X or I not sure it's the silver one with a gold rating.

 

[mcnumpty23]

So I overclocked my GTX 970 (+10mv voltage, +125 core clock, +150 memory) and it was stable testing it on Furmark for a solid half an hour at 1080P. I go to play on The Division and it crashes and then the game crashes, the same happens when I try to play Arma - the graphics driver just stops working for some reason.

Is this something wrong with my graphics card, driver or what?

Details -
Graphics Card - GTX 970 G1 Gaming Gigabyte
Driver version - 364.51
OS - Windows 10 Home Premium

I don't think any more information is relevant, but if I'm wrong then just ask for more.

your psu is relevant info , what is it.? also furmark if for thermal stability! what temps are you reading after half a hour? benchmarks are good tests for driver stability but in the end real word gaming performance is the ultimate test. as you fail looks like your not stable with such o/c.

(another quote thing idk how to do it)
i think the card throttles on furmark

test your overclock on unigine heaven or valley benchmark

I will try those benchmarks when I have the time to.
My PSU is the something like RM 650X or I not sure it's the silver one with a gold rating.

just press the reply to button to quote

 

[chris987]

RM 650X is a very good unit , no problems there. get a track on your temps and adjust your o/c as it is necessary.

 

[djreedj]

run RealBench and 3d Mark Firestrike for testing also to help with more real world applications. if it crashes during games your gpu more than likely cant handle that high of an overclock, all gpus overclock differently.

 

[bullbearings]

Alright so I used 3D Mark firestrike to do some benchmarking here are the results at various OC's -

Stock

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/11287014?
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/11287049?

No artifacts temps at 100% were about 70 deg.

Just went onto the wit her 3 and it seems fine and so does arma... maybe its just something happened randomly.

 

[djreedj]

I cant see your results but those temps are fine

 

[azzazel_99]

When you go to play games the voltages and clock speeds will fluctuate in games. You maybe stable when pushing it at 100% all the time during stability tests but once you do real world applications that put a completely different load on your card it will behave differently which is why synthetic benchmarking is IMO stupid and worthless. Unless you build your pc for benchmark results its worthless is you're a gamer. Try adding a tad more voltage or you may just not be able to hit that clock. With the overclock you're adding whats the total or what should be the total mhz speed? My wifes evga superclocked 970 is like 1350'ish mhz and thats pretty high outta the box. Doesnt leave much room for much more overclocking than that.

Edit: 1568 core clock?!?!?! Dude thats why you're crashing. I know people running water cooled loops on their 970's that can't break 1400-1450mhz. You are way past your cards limits thats why its crashing. The game ramping up and down your clock speeds when its starting and or running is probably whats crashing the game. You card just isnt stable at those clocks. Anything past 1400mhz you should consider yourself lucky but you're running at 1500+.

 

[bullbearings]

When you go to play games the voltages and clock speeds will fluctuate in games. You maybe stable when pushing it at 100% all the time during stability tests but once you do real world applications that put a completely different load on your card it will behave differently which is why synthetic benchmarking is IMO stupid and worthless. Unless you build your pc for benchmark results its worthless is you're a gamer. Try adding a tad more voltage or you may just not be able to hit that clock. With the overclock you're adding whats the total or what should be the total mhz speed? My wifes evga superclocked 970 is like 1350'ish mhz and thats pretty high outta the box. Doesnt leave much room for much more overclocking than that.

Edit: 1568 core clock?!?!?! Dude thats why you're crashing. I know people running water cooled loops on their 970's that can't break 1400-1450mhz. You are way past your cards limits thats why its crashing. The game ramping up and down your clock speeds when its starting and or running is probably whats crashing the game. You card just isnt stable at those clocks. Anything past 1400mhz you should consider yourself lucky but you're running at 1500+.

I think I've somehow messed up with this overclock.

Uhhh so my core clock shouldn't be +125?


If only GPU overclocking was as easy as CPU overclocking -
Click overclock
Choose your type of cooler and what you're gonna use it for and bam stable overclock.

 

[azzazel_99]

No really your boost clock which kicks in automatically when gaming and the gpu load hits a high enough load to enable it is 1328mhz i believe on the g1 gaming. If you add +72mhz to the core when your boost kicks in it will put you at 1400mhz when gaming or benchmarking the gpu. Thats a really good overclock. In my honest opinion i would not add more than that to the core and maybe 100-150 on the memory. The card factory overclocks itself so its already doing overclocking without you adding any extra.