Problems Overclocking my GALAXY 660?

[mprasolov]

So many months ago, I had tried to overclock my GALAXY GTX 660 GC card using the "Xtreme Tuner", and any time I bumped up the power target over 100, the Nvidia driver crashes. Games play fine when the power target is at 100. I suspected that it might be because it wasn't getting enough power so I just left it.

Just today, I got a Corsair CX750M and I figured that now I could overclock the graphics card a bit. Yet I still get the same problem of the driver crashing after playing a game for seconds. Looking at the temperature indicator, it's only at something like 54 degrees when it crashes.

What am I doing wrong? Is it a problem with hardware, or am I not overclocking correctly?

 

[cookybiscuit]

Just use MSI Afterburner instead of crappy software made by other companies.

Max out the power target, max out the voltage, then see how high you can get the clocks.

 

[mprasolov]

Just use MSI Afterburner instead of crappy software made by other companies.

Max out the power target, max out the voltage, then see how high you can get the clocks.

So I was able to play a stable game with power target and core voltage all the way up, but if I even try to bump up the clocks even a little bit, the driver crashes!

 

[cookybiscuit]

What is the card clocked at when you aren't overclocking it? Sounds like either you got a dud card or a card that has a super high base clock, GPU Boost is weird and clocks much higher than the manufacturer states it will, and 660's don't overclock very well anyway.

 

[mprasolov]

What is the card clocked at when you aren't overclocking it? Sounds like either you got a dud card or a card that has a super high base clock, GPU Boost is weird and clocks much higher than the manufacturer states it will, and 660's don't overclock very well anyway.

According to GPU-Z, the core clock is at 1006 MHz, the Memory is at 1502 MHz, and the Boost Clock is at 1072 MHz.

 

[cookybiscuit]

Thats not massively high but its not out of the ordinary to get a card that doesn't overclock well, unless its not stable at base clocks you cant return it either.

 

[mprasolov]

Thats not massively high but its not out of the ordinary to get a card that doesn't overclock well, unless its not stable at base clocks you cant return it either.

I bought this card a LONG time ago anyways! Oh well, it seems like an isolated problem, because I can't find many other similar issues around the internet.