Overclocking advice for my system

[crazytlingit]

System Specs:
i5 4570
ASUS m87z motherboard
ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 TURBO-GTX1070-8G 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
16gb Corsair vengeance ram
EVGA 550 GS Gold PSU
Standard harddrive

I have a medium at best system at best and I'm new to the overclocking system, been crashing my games until I find a sweet spot of my overclocking numbers that won't crash the game. I was wondering what I should watch out for, can I cause damage, why sometimes my driver gets completely corrupt and I have to re-install (haven't done this in awhile, did it with my gtx 960, seemed to happen when I adjusted my voltage meter), any advise on overclocking. Thanks.

 

[Jayhawker32]

If you are only using EVGA PrecisionX or MSI Afterburner you cannot damage the card by adjusting core or memory clocks. If the driver crashes you have an unstable overclock and should back down the overclock a little bit.

Typically how people over clock is by downloading Unigine Heaven or Valley Benchmark.

Here: https://unigine.com/en/products/benchmarks

Start by adjust your core clock +10 mhz while running the benchmark, raise this until you start seeing artifacts or have instability (driver crashes). Once you get crashes or artifacts back down the overclock 5 or so mhz and mark down that number. Now reset the core clock to +0 and do the same for your memory overclock, generally this will go higher so you can start out +25 or +50 until you see instability or artifacts. Once you find a comfortable spot apply both overclocks together. You may have back the memory overclock down a little bit to be stable and once you find that point you have your overclock

 

[crazytlingit]

If you are only using EVGA PrecisionX or MSI Afterburner you cannot damage the card by adjusting core or memory clocks. If the driver crashes you have an unstable overclock and should back down the overclock a little bit.

Typically how people over clock is by downloading Unigine Heaven or Valley Benchmark.

Here: https://unigine.com/en/products/benchmarks

Start by adjust your core clock +10 mhz while running the benchmark, raise this until you start seeing artifacts or have instability (driver crashes). Once you get crashes or artifacts back down the overclock 5 or so mhz and mark down that number. Now reset the core clock to +0 and do the same for your memory overclock, generally this will go higher so you can start out +25 or +50 until you see instability or artifacts. Once you find a comfortable spot apply both overclocks together. You may have back the memory overclock down a little bit to be stable and once you find that point you have your overclock

Thanks! I'll begin this process tonight again.