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I keep making videos telling you guys all the reasons why you need to overclock and unlock the full potential of the hardware that you own and every single time I do that some of you push back telling me you're too scared you're too afraid you're going to break something and you just are really not comfortable doing that well today I'm going to intentionally overclock some stuff too far I'm going to show you how to get it back and hopefully by the end of this video puts you at ease that it's harder to break your stuff than you really think it is with its unique freeform modular system the new master Casemaker 5 from cooler master allows unparalleled flexibility with its adjustable internal layout and exterior customization options learn more about how you can start customizing your own case by following the link down in the description now this is you might recognize is MSI Afterburner we're going to use MSI Afterburner for simply the sake of simplicity today because it does pretty much apply to all the different overclocking utilities but we're also going to make sure we have this button checked right here that says start up now what that does is it means apply the overclock to the graphics card at windows startup whether msi afterburner is running or not now there is a separate setting in here where you can start msi afterburner with Windows I use it I set it minimized that way I can monitor things like temps but we're going to just let this thing go by applying the overclock when we start up windows now what we're going to do here is we're going to say you know what we're going to overclock this thing 100 megahertz we're going to go oops and we're going to apply it to a thousand megahertz and we're going to hit apply and we don't realize we did that right because it didn't do anything right now it just simply said oh we're going to apply a thousand megahertz when we ramp up the GPU so you don't realize you actually did that you're going about your business you might start up here oh oh well now what oh ok that's easy we'll just go ahead and do it we'll just do a soft reset on the PC we'll just hit that reset button now first it's not really much of a problem because what we've got right here is well it didn't do anything until we like tried to load up our browser which is actually GPU accelerated I'm using Chrome and then we go to restart the system we go oh man what happened did something grow up I overclocked and you are panicking you think oh no I think I just broke my card a big purple screen that can't be good I think I think my graphics card is dead oh crap and then you start to reboot into Windows and yeah you patiently wait you're tapping your fingers on the key on the on the desk and you're going oh oh I shoulda listened to Jay that big fat ass told me to grit overclocked my graphics card and now it's broken I should have never listened to him so then we get into our desktop here we go oh thank god everything's working well that could have been Oh what's up and it black screens on you complete hard lock and you're going oh man what the hell because guess what we're applying that thousand megahertz on startup so now when Windows is starting it's going let's go ahead and just push an extra gigahertz to our graphics card because you weren't paying attention and now you're thinking oh crap I broke my card but you didn't you simply applied a little bit too far of an overclock now the point of this video is going to be how to get that overclock fixed those two ways we could do this we could actually take and this is this is a little bit simpler where it doesn't involve going into startup or dealing with any of that you can take your spare gtx 980ti because you all have spare 92t eyes right you can take this turn off the system remove the graphics card that's being applied too far of an overclock right now plug this guy in start up the system and it will be fine because there's no saved profile for this so if we did that right now we would get to our desktop and everything would work fine you could then go in and you could uninstall MSI Afterburner don't save the profiles and reinstall it or just delete the profile for the GTX 1080 chances are you don't know how to do that which is why you're watching this video or maybe you're just curious chances are also that you don't have a spare gtx 980ti or even a spare graphics card if any sort sitting around as long as you have a different graphics card that isn't the same chipset as the one you've got like a 980 TI different variations of 980ti you would still apply the overclock so you don't want to use another same generation or same GPU graphics card series we're gonna do we're gonna go ahead hit restart on the system one more time now my system actually hangs so much that the restart button doesn't actually do anything I actually I have to hold down the power button to get it to cycle what we're hoping right now is that it will bring up the startup options usually Windows 10 I'm using Windows 10 is a little different when 10 is usually pretty good about realizing that crap we didn't load properly so we need to bring up our our startup menu let's hope it does that and nope it didn't you would know because it would say please wait down here at the bottom if it was loading up the recovery environment since it's not we're going back into our desktop and we are going to probably crash now I'm gonna try holding the shift modifier right now while we're booting because sometimes that will keep it from actually loading that particular profile nope it did it now we got a green screen last time the first time was a purple screen there was a black screen now it's a green screen so I guess now we could like do special effects and stuff nope not really okay so we're restarting one more time this is the third failed start so what we should get now is an actual recovery environment from Windows Windows hopefully is smart enough to realize uh-oh we uh we're not we're not booting properly he keeps hitting that reset button so let's try and recover ah there it is see it says please wait so Windows has now detect detected they were having a failed boot situation here that's a good thing Windows 10 will do that automatically if you're not on Windows 10 and this isn't happening you keep getting this failed boot process try holding down and mashing f8 while you're booting and you should get into the same menu that we're going to have right now so if you're on Windows 8 or older then start pushing f8 now don't do restart my computer go to see Advanced Options go to troubleshoot Advanced Options startup settings and we want to enable safe mode so we're going to start here with our startup options which is going to give you where we can boot in safe mode and we can do our safe mode with networking and all that stuff command prompt we don't need any that we just want regular old safe mode ok now once it restarts you're going to be given some options here of how to actually boot we want number 4 safe mode we don't need networking when a new command prompt we just want regular old safe mode so I'm pushing number 4 and what we're going to be doing here is we're going to boot up the system in safe mode and we're going to uninstall MSI Afterburner simple enough right yeah pretty simple now because we're in safe mode none of the other apps are going to be able to open it's literally just a bear Bonz architecture that allows windows to run with minimal things and activate it so all we have to do now is go to programs and setting or features and then we can go into our MSI Afterburner uninstall and change uninstall no you want to say no you don't want to save the profiles because if you do when you reinstall with MSI Afterburner you're going to apply the same problem again so say no you don't want to save any of these settings once this is done simple enough you just restart your system and you will end up back in your regular operating system with MSI Afterburner uninstalled you can reinstall it and this time pay a little bit more attention to what you're doing now what if you don't want to go through all that but you actually have a spare 980ti or I'm just I'm joking guys you don't need a 980ti you can use any graphics card that's not the same graphics card that you have in there so don't use another 980ti if you have one in there don't use another 1080 if you have a 1080 in there use something else just use another graphics card that's not the same as the one that you have in there and we're back at the desktop now and you can see that we're not crashing because MSI Afterburner which would be sitting right there is no longer installed so it's not going to apply a funky overclock that keeps crashing your settings so now you can redownload msi afterburner or reinstall it pay a little bit more attention to what you're clicking and off you go but I want to point out we just applied a thousand megahertz overclock to the GPU multiple times we didn't break it it's still here and it still works let me go ahead and show you how to do it now with the spare GPU method the first thing I got to do is I have to break it again now it might seem a little ridiculous that I'm actually showing you guys here the actual process of switching out the graphics card but that's called it's called creative freedom murca we got freedom actually just the Internet there are I don't know if there are are there territorial boundaries to the internet I don't know I'm sure there are or else how else could North Korea and China block it off so anyway let's go ahead and get this guy out of here this guy is always little bit tricky to get out because of that a big old button I showed you guys in the review of this guy anyway we're now going to take the 980ti this is the same reboot where I turned it off we had the failed start so I haven't done anything other then throw in a different graphics card plugging in our monitor cable there we need when you power right I mean it need some power need some need some old space in here here we go let's start it up once we swap the graphics card all we gotta do is power it on and wait now this thing doesn't make me a complete and utter liar you'll see that not only will we start up everything will be working just fine okay there's our Windows logo our little spinning wheel we're logging in here test bench and at you cannot you can obviously see because now it's at a native 4k not 1080 like I had the other card that everything is working just fine so moral the story here guys is don't be afraid play with it play the graphics card yeah that's what we're talking about here keep it clean guys keep it clean now let's hold black flickering screen you just saw it just re scaled the desktop back to 1080 because that's where I had it before and as you can see everything is working just fine so there you go after applying a thousand megahertz overclocked multiple times all you saw happened was a crash nothing broke on the graphics card nothing will break on the graphics card because all we applied was a software change would enforce more voltage to it and if it can't run at the frequency all it's going to do is it's just going to crash nothing bad is going to happen and I showed you it's not hard to recover even from something that looks on the surface like you have a bad graphics card or it broke it really takes a lot to break these things guys they are very robust unless you're going in there doing voltage mods and applying more voltage way more voltage and even something like MSI Afterburner will allow then you're not going to break your graphics cards there's free untapped potential in there you guys need to tap it it's going to give you better gaming experiences higher fps and we all know that fps is more important than graphical quality doesn't make any sense at all actually whatever we want graphics quality and we want FPS if you overclock it you can have both alright guys time to get out of here come up with some more excuses and I'll come up with another video thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one