Screen Tearing / Jitter after GPU overclock (GTX 980)

[camason86]

Hey all,

Recently I bought an EVGA GTX980 (superclocked, acx cooler). I decided to tinker around a bit and use EVGA Precision X to overclock the GPU. I overclocked it about as much as anyone has in the guides and tutorial videos I could find online. Even with a moderate overclock, benchmark tests were locking up or crashing, so I rolled back the overclock to default and decided I would leave it alone at stock settings.

Since the overclock, I've noticed some very slight screen tearing / jitter in all of my games. It's really subtle, but it's there. Everything is stable otherwise, no crashes, FPS is normal.

My question is.. is it possible for an overclock to damage a GPU and cause a problem like this to occur even when rolled back to stock settings?

 

[Mrcrazed]

Hey all,

Recently I bought an EVGA GTX980 (superclocked, acx cooler). I decided to tinker around a bit and use EVGA Precision X to overclock the GPU. I overclocked it about as much as anyone has in the guides and tutorial videos I could find online. Even with a moderate overclock, benchmark tests were locking up or crashing, so I rolled back the overclock to default and decided I would leave it alone at stock settings.

Since the overclock, I've noticed some very slight screen tearing / jitter in all of my games. It's really subtle, but it's there. Everything is stable otherwise, no crashes, FPS is normal.

My question is.. is it possible for an overclock to damage a GPU and cause a problem like this to occur even when rolled back to stock settings?

Odd. are you positive its from the overclock? normally stuttering in games is caused by the CPU.

 

[Wayfall]

Hi

Could you 'list' your computer specs so we can see what computer we are looking at here.

Thanks

 

[camason86]

Hi

Could you 'list' your computer specs so we can see what computer we are looking at here.

Thanks

i5 4670K clocked at 4.2Ghz
16GB RAM
GTX 980
120GB SSD
2TB HDD
Windows 10 64 bit

 

[camason86]

Hey all,

Recently I bought an EVGA GTX980 (superclocked, acx cooler). I decided to tinker around a bit and use EVGA Precision X to overclock the GPU. I overclocked it about as much as anyone has in the guides and tutorial videos I could find online. Even with a moderate overclock, benchmark tests were locking up or crashing, so I rolled back the overclock to default and decided I would leave it alone at stock settings.

Since the overclock, I've noticed some very slight screen tearing / jitter in all of my games. It's really subtle, but it's there. Everything is stable otherwise, no crashes, FPS is normal.

My question is.. is it possible for an overclock to damage a GPU and cause a problem like this to occur even when rolled back to stock settings?

Odd. are you positive its from the overclock? normally stuttering in games is caused by the CPU.

I'm not positive that it is. I just started noticing the issue after overclocking so I linked it to that... To clarify, there is no stuttering in game. That is, frames per second are normal and everything is smooth. The issue is with the consistency of the image on screen. There is slight tearing... i want to say "jitter" but maybe that isn't the right word. It just looks like there's a slight break in the image at certain points.

 

[camason86]

I should also add that I'm running a 144Hz monitor so screen tearing has been non existent up until this issue started

 

[Mrcrazed]

Hey all,

Recently I bought an EVGA GTX980 (superclocked, acx cooler). I decided to tinker around a bit and use EVGA Precision X to overclock the GPU. I overclocked it about as much as anyone has in the guides and tutorial videos I could find online. Even with a moderate overclock, benchmark tests were locking up or crashing, so I rolled back the overclock to default and decided I would leave it alone at stock settings.

Since the overclock, I've noticed some very slight screen tearing / jitter in all of my games. It's really subtle, but it's there. Everything is stable otherwise, no crashes, FPS is normal.

My question is.. is it possible for an overclock to damage a GPU and cause a problem like this to occur even when rolled back to stock settings?

Odd. are you positive its from the overclock? normally stuttering in games is caused by the CPU.

I'm not positive that it is. I just started noticing the issue after overclocking so I linked it to that... To clarify, there is no stuttering in game. That is, frames per second are normal and everything is smooth. The issue is with the consistency of the image on screen. There is slight tearing... i want to say "jitter" but maybe that isn't the right word. It just looks like there's a slight break in the image at certain points.

Did you try limiting your FPS?

 

[camason86]

Hey all,

Recently I bought an EVGA GTX980 (superclocked, acx cooler). I decided to tinker around a bit and use EVGA Precision X to overclock the GPU. I overclocked it about as much as anyone has in the guides and tutorial videos I could find online. Even with a moderate overclock, benchmark tests were locking up or crashing, so I rolled back the overclock to default and decided I would leave it alone at stock settings.

Since the overclock, I've noticed some very slight screen tearing / jitter in all of my games. It's really subtle, but it's there. Everything is stable otherwise, no crashes, FPS is normal.

My question is.. is it possible for an overclock to damage a GPU and cause a problem like this to occur even when rolled back to stock settings?

Odd. are you positive its from the overclock? normally stuttering in games is caused by the CPU.

I'm not positive that it is. I just started noticing the issue after overclocking so I linked it to that... To clarify, there is no stuttering in game. That is, frames per second are normal and everything is smooth. The issue is with the consistency of the image on screen. There is slight tearing... i want to say "jitter" but maybe that isn't the right word. It just looks like there's a slight break in the image at certain points.

Did you try limiting your FPS?

No, but since my monitor is 144Hz i don't believe I should need to. I don't usually reach and never exceed 144fps.

I might put my old GPU back in just to prove out where the issue is. If the old GPU has the same issue then maybe it was there all along and I just never noticed.