Overclocking Without Voltage?

[prince_xaine]

A lot of people seem to have different opinions on "how to overclock".

The most popular is: "increase it little by little until it crashes or artifacts, then decrease"

Isn't overclocking until a crash or artifact terrible for the card? I'm not gonna lie, I increased by card's clock a little to much and it artifacted. This caused damage? Yes?

 

[fagetti]

Overclocking without increasing voltage wont cause damage.

Only if you overvolt above guided limits ( needs alot to kill card immidiately) or few years of thermal throttling.

You can do no damage with increase of core clock or memory clock.

 

[fagetti]

There is multiple threads on overclocking and you can do it until crash or artifacts. In ny experience if core clock is unstable i get black screen or driver crash. Memory overclocking causes most of the time artifacts and decrease in benchmark score.