Is it safe if I'm "constantly" changing between two OC profiles?

[CaptEinstein]

Well a brief explanation is. Whenever I'm running a high end game (Eg. Dying Light, Battlefield 3/4, Crysis 3, Far Cry 4 etc) I'll change to my high OC profile which is 1430MHz Boost Clock/1279MHz GPU Clock and 1855MHz Memory clock. And whenever I'm running any low end game (Eg. CS:GO, Garrys Mod, L4D2, TF2 etc) I'll go to another OC profile which is +22MHz on boost and +34MHz on mem clock. So, my question is, is it safe for me to be doing this? Or should I just settle on a OC that'll probably expand the life of my card plus having a good overclock but not too much. If so, how? I'm running a GTX 970 card btw.

 

[BigBadBeef]

Safety and overclocking are a contradiction in terms. There is no such thing as SAFE when talking about OC. But why are you doing this I also don't understand. Its been a long time since I've had nVidia, but I distinctly remember than you can set the clock speeds and voltage per every single application that is direct3D and OpenGL based.

And no matter what card you've got, as longer as its younger than 5 years, it will downclock and downvolt itself when idle, and will only reach OC clock and voltage if and only if your framerate dips below the vSync limit you have on the monitor refresh rate.

TO GIVE A MORE DIRECT ANSWER: its only as dangerous as you push the clock WHEN you oc.