OCed GTX 970 G1 Gaming game crashing and got a BSOD

[adawa]

I may have done something really stupid with my card. I was OCing with Afterburner with +175Core and +400Memory. However, I did not increase my Vcore (stock voltage) but I did set my power limit to 112%. I was able to play yesterday without any hiccups yesterday. However, when I played today, my games were crashing and the second instance was a BSOD.

I immediately went back to stock settings and everything went back to normal. Now, I'm a bit paranoid that I may have damaged something in my PC components (Specially the GPU).

I was not able to get the code on BSOD, but it mentioned about a Memory dump and restarted normally back to windows.

Any feedback or advice?

 

[SkylerJacobs]

Please post full computer specs =)

 

[adawa]

Intel Core i5-4690 up to 3.90GHz (Quad Core) Haswell Refresh
Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H
Gskill Ripjaws X 8GB 4gbx2 DDR3 1600 CL9 (F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL)
Western Digital WD Caviar Blue 1TB 64MB WD10EZEX
Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming 4GB 256bit ddr5 (GV-N970G1 GAMING-4GD)
FSP Raider 550watts 80Plus SILVER Power Supply

I'm using a non K i5 4690 and stock HFS. I am also using an N200 Clear side Case with only it's stock fans (looking to add two more this weekend for intake and exhaust).

 

[adawa]

anyone?

 

[SkylerJacobs]

Did you test your overclock to check if it was completely stable? The overclock seems to be the obvious issue if everything went back to normal after changing everything back to stock.

 

[adawa]

I was only using the built in benchmark for the Dragon Age inquisition. The day that it was stable, I was able to push the memory clock to 500. However, I was already getting artifacts and went back to 400 memory clock and 175 core. I went back to gaming with no issues for about 4 hours that day.

Come next day, (same settings) that's when I encountered the crash and BSOD and realized my setting from yesterday wasn't stable.