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today we are going to show you how to overclock and and the our X 480 this is the new video card uses new overclocking software called wot man in the future there will be aftermarket software like afterburner and things like that what we have in here is a custom our X 480 we have a three part series showing how we made this it is liquid cooled it will overclock better then this thing does but not that much better and the process is basically the same so we're going to show you how to do it on this before getting to the tutorial this coverage is brought to you by Origin PC and a new origin Kronos gaming PC with the RX 480 is customizable upgradeable and ready for VR so for overclocking there's a few things we need to know there's the tools that you need and then the settings that you control the tools you need or should have include gpu-z that's free you can get it on techpowerup you should also have something like 3d mark or a video game that provides a good amount of load and then you need the an AMD software so that's Andy Radeon settings we news wot man and other than that a notepad file or a spreadsheet and I'll show you why in a moment I would recommend not using firm our core combustor or anything similar some synthetic applications generate a load that very specifically targets one part of the card maybe tessellation and those things that will not provoke a failure in the same sense that game will so you might get a higher overclock with fir mark you start playing The Witcher suddenly your overclocks not actually stable anymore that's why so let's look at this thing we've got the custom card in here as I said I have gpu-z open and I've got this 3d mark in the background this is what I recommend I think there's a free version stress test is what we're going to use up here and that will run on loop and then wot man is over here you get the white man by right-clicking the desktop go to in the Radeon settings and once your an AMD Radeon settings click gaming global settings global wot man that's where we are so here's our overclock we have applied now the settings you will be modifying in this overclock include the core frequency which starts us at around 12 66 megahertz the core voltage or V core and we've also got memory frequency memory voltage and then there's the fan rpm for the blower fan or your AIB partner carb fans and finally the power percent targets frequency is the frequency the clock operates at that's what largely determines your gaming performance voltage is what basically determines the stability of your core and you'll want to increase that as the frequency increases and becomes less stable memory frequency is how fast the memory runs gddr5 in this case power percent target that's how much extra board power we're providing over reference so if you offset by 50 percent you're running out 150 percent power you're drawn a lot more wattage it's not great for the GPU or really anything on it if it's running too high for too long with a high voltage but that is part of how you create a stable overclock so here's what we're running at right now I've got it at 13 90 megahertz I've maxed out our voltage to 1150 and I know that's stable that's what we showed in our previous video we're at 2200 megahertz for the frequency I know that's stable for this particular card it's not going to be the same for yours so don't just copy these settings power percent limit we're at 150% fan rpm ignore it because we have a custom fan on there for the blower fan for this overclock while it wasn't possible but for the 13 50 megahertz overclock we did do for the blower fan and reference card I had the fan at 3800 - 4100 rpm it was very loud but it worked and kept it reasonably cool you see we're at 25 degrees Celsius ambient is 24 ish so we're actually pretty darn cool right now and that's because of the liquid but you will be closer to the 80s so now let's go ahead and reset this we know this works but I want to show you how to get here so reset the first thing this is your default setup with AMD and you can see we're actually at a frequency percentage offset using what's called a frequency voltage curve this offsets the frequency for different voltage States this is going to be a lower voltage that's slightly higher higher still and then the highest and this is basically to allow stepping of the card so when you're at idle or running an easy game or browser it will run a lower frequency lower voltage and thus draw less power samesies angle here and Nvidia's angle as well but for overclocking we're going to change this to dynamic which really just means manual and I'm going to enter manually the same frequency across the board because I want to benchmark this so I want a 100% stable frequency is not required but it is what I recommend before doing that we're going to run the stress test in the background go to gpu-z let's open a new one here just to clear it out it's going to pop up a warning because I'm not connected to my server and go to sensors and the settings I want to click twice on voltage so we get max voltage twice on GP power so we get max power observe the core clock as we go and make sure it's hitting the numbers that you configure because if it's not it means we need to change something to make sure it hits those numbers otherwise you're not actually doing anything okay so with 3dmark in the background generating a load you can see here this is my previous stepping I would recommend to opening a notepad plus plus or spreadsheet file we're going to create a few rows we'll have core clock we're going to have the power target actually let's do V core the core power % mem clock and then a pass/fail let's call it five-minute test pass/fail 60 minute test so first of all our core clock let's go ahead and start overclocking I know that the stock out of box setup for this card is 12 66 megahertz boost so you can set it there to start validate it works we know it does and once you're there we can start overclocking you want to do increments here so I'm going to do an increment of about 25-30 let's go let's go to thirteen hundred megahertz 1300 across the board that's a good starter if that's stable we can increase from there you may leave voltage at Auto for now once you get stability issues I would recommend going to manual change it manually course their speed for memory leave it alone we will mess with that once the card is actually hitting its limit for the core clock apply those settings let's go over here so take a look at the GPU clock despite being configured to 1,300 across the board we're not actually hitting that and that's not because 3dmark is not generating the load it's because the card is throttling so let's let's go over here and we will say let's let's just call this a good 1,000 megahertz v core auto power target 100 percent 1000 mem clock 2000 and we know this will pass because it's the stock setup basically so let's go ahead I'll show you how to unlock that thing I'm going to offset this by 50 doing too much power and too much voltage will damage your card long term especially if it's cooled poorly so do this at your own risk but we are going to just go ahead and do things to the extreme here because who cares it's our Hardware not yours so I don't really really care if it dies ISO 13 hundred megahertz we're now hitting that properly core I'm going to enter 1,300 Auto 150 I know this passes we're just going to put pass so now we've got this fixed now that we're getting an actual stable clock right at the number we configured we can start offsetting this I would recommend doing increments of 20 megahertz you can cut through all this okay so we've offset this to 1320 Tec gpu-z validate it is 1320 and the rest is all the same settings now I am going to put pass here because I know it passes we're doing this for speed reasons you should let this run for a minimum 5 minutes I know that's not enough for a stable overclock but hear me out 5 minutes look for artifacting look for flickering and look for driver failures if any of those happen then you either need to increase your voltage increase your power target if you have not maxed it out yet or you need to decrease your clock because you've hit your maximum stable clock so we're going to go through do 5-minute tests on each of these overclocks until we find the one that makes it fail almost immediately once we find that point we'll start running longer endurance tests and down clock as necessary I know 1320 is stable let's go up to 1350 now on our reference card we failed at 13 40 megahertz but this is no longer a reference card we put an aftermarket liquid cooler on it so it can actually go much higher all right so we let this run for a few minutes it looks good go ahead and increase that again at this point we're getting to where we want to probably offset by about 10 megahertz at a time I know where it fails already I'm gonna do 20 I would advise that as you begin approaching kind of where reviewers another and your peers hit their limit I would advise going down to 10 megahertz offsets to see if you can really pinpoint that point of failure and minimize any risk for other events now here's where I'm going to change this all right so I'm going to change this to manual voltage control let me show you something the maximum setting if I type in 2000 millivolts watch what happens it resets that means Andy is protecting you and that video will do this as well from doing too much 11:50 is the max they allow you should probably do either either leave it on auto if you don't know what you're doing or if you do know what you're doing keep it closer to kind of where and these got their default settings and increase only when you start getting failures for example I would maybe start at 1100 and see how stable it is and then increase from there on time accessing out because again we know you know what it's capable of okay so we've been stable at 1380 let's go to 1390 we're doing 10 megahertz offsets now to see you know it'd be a little easier on the card and at this point we're getting near where we'll be overclocked in the memory as well 3ds any potential bottlenecks but also because we're going to hit a max on the core let's check on GPU Z while while we're sitting here waiting for this to burn and gpu-z says we are still at 13 90s so we know it's actually working it's not throttling itself temperature we're at 50 Celsius diode this is an accurate reading you should listen to it if you're hitting 89 Celsius 90 Celsius you want to increase that fan rpm that's something we're skipping here so this blower fan will spin at 5200 rpm max it's really loud 60 decibels is about what we were getting but if you want to stabilize that overclock reduce your temperatures try and keep it to 80 85 Celsius that will help you out a lot and you're probably gonna need to be at 4000 rpm so that's where I would manually set that and you do that in the bottom left of the software power draw we're at one point one 375 that's pretty high board or GPU power excuse me we're at 187 watts that adding on the board power puts us a little over 200 close to 220 watts it's a lot of power so we're getting near the limit of this thing let's go ahead and push the 1,400 it apply okay so the video cards in the process of failing as you can see we've crashed a screen run black and Radeon Settings is now turned semi-transparent GPZ is dropping the clock rate so we know this thing's failed the best thing to do at this point because of the current instability of the program quite obviously it's still dying we're going to restart and then jump back into it and now you've seen how it fails I'll show you how to do the stepping all right so we saw it crash it crashed at around 1400 megahertz that's just where this car that happens to fail yours will not be the same so don't copy my numbers because it's not going to work out the same way so it fails there we can go ahead and enter in this table 1411 5150 saw mm memory not 22 mm on the five minutes and failed on the endurance failed at around six minutes or so it's not even really properly endurance but we're just going to do that so we know that's the point of failure I've dialed it back down to thirteen ninety at this point you run a burnin so let it run for sixty minutes see if it survives spoiler alert I knows art I know ours does so we're going to say pass pass on the endurance and then next it's time to play with the memory thirteen ninety we don't do that thirteen ninety alone 5150 M memory I'm going to leave it on auto frequency and it's at 2,000 megahertz click that button set its dynamic let's do one hundred megahertz at a time at max is at 2250 hit apply we're at 2100 with a 13 90 and I know this pass is at five minutes we're going to put pass let it sit you know let it burn in C it does any flickering if it does step it back or increase the voltage manually so next twenty two hundred would be our next 100 megahertz offset you can probably do fifty at this point really to just be safe but 1390 so at this point it becomes a question does it pass or fail I know it does for this and then if we go to 2250 it will fail and then we back it down to 2200 we back this down to thirteen ninety as it is now run the endurance test for sixty to one hundred twenty minutes see how it does if it looks good then you can kind of let it run a little longer and see how it burns in okay so that that is how to overclock the and the RX 480 before you do this on your own and I kind of stayed at this at the beginning but be very careful of your power drop in general / volting is bad for silicon if you over bolt too much especially with a cpu which will let you go higher than something like this well when you're over volting just don't go too crazy check guides online make sure you stay within kind of the recommended limitations so you don't hurt anything thermals are concerned make sure the thermals are reasonable increase your fan rpm as necessary or get a better card with better cooler or get one of these aftermarket coolers that we've done and put it on yourself the next concern is power draw this board in particular is special it's got its drawing too much power through the PCIe bus that's something we've seen several reviews on now we validated it ourselves kind of lightly and I'll do more on that in the future but you will want either you want a very good motherboard if you're going to start pushing 50% power limit like we did and you want something like extra power headers this EVGA x99 classified board has a six pin header down here giving us extra power to the PCIe bus that means it is reducing strain on the 24 pin but you're still going to be kind of really really pushing a little bit on power lissa do you keep an eye on that you don't want to run it too long and don't run it like that on a cheap board with 150 percent power it might not be good for the board but we are researching that so I'll let you know if how that hold is true so that's how to do it if you have a questions post and below do my best to answer check the articles for more details on this our our x 480 review article has a couple paragraphs on overclock and that will recap this data and talk about how to do it in case you missed anything I would strongly recommend doing one of the sort of notepad files that I was showing you that will help you keep track of things save it as you go other than that that's pretty much everything is a patreon link the poster video if you liked this video leave a comment below subscribe all that stuff thanks for watching I'll see you all next time