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hey guys you're watching Jays two cents and I'm gonna try and bring you a very quick a very crude video on how to safely and effectively overclock your AMD or Nvidia graphics cards so don't go away okay guys I'm gonna try and bring you as much information as I possibly can in a video that's long enough to keep your attention because I know there's all those other videos over in the sidebar just begging watch me watch me watch me and you know you want to click it but you also want to know how to overclock your graphics card so I'm gonna bring that information to you as quickly as possible now what you're looking at here is my channel so if you accidentally come across this video or stumbled across me for the first time check out some of the other videos I have here you can see I've got a lot of PC related stuff I've got blogs I've got some Tech Talk which is a podcast that I do I've got all kinds of stuff in there that meets pretty much everybody's fancy and likes to tickle it and and all that dirty stuff that probably is a little bit over the top but this program is what we're going to take a look at today and this is msi afterburner and to get started i'll put the link down in the description make sure you check it out download this program it's absolutely free and it works with any graphics card you have whether it be AMD or nvidia all the way back to the 200 series and videos I believe and the 4000 series AMD's now to get started here I'm gonna go ahead and just kind of give you a quick rundown of the basic functions of this utility there's just way too much to cover in one video so we're gonna show you the important stuff now it shows me that I'm using a gtx 680 because that's when i'm using and it shows me the driver version that i'm music make sure you're using the most up-to-date driver for your graphics card it is very important to do that because the manufacturers do take overclocking into account and the drivers make a huge difference when it comes to overclocking and stability and a core voltage here is measured in millivolts what that means if I add 100 millivolts I'm adding point 1 volt because that's how that works that's math people that's math milah thousand Boult 100 of a thousand or 0.1 there you go math lesson we're done for today all right core voltage 100 millivolts you can slide that all the way to the right on just about any card most cards aren't going to allow you to over volt and do damage because they're limited by their BIOS you can't hurt them power limit is what you see in my case because I'm using a 680 which is a GPU boost 1.0 feature for NVIDIA it says my card wants to run at 132 percent of its max power target it's just the way NVIDIA calls over clocking just slide it all the way to the right you're not gonna hurt anything now core megahertz is just like core voltage where you're gonna be adding megahertz to the boot boost clock of your graphics card whether it be AMD or Nvidia so if I have a 165 megahertz overclock so whatever my boost voltage is plus 165 you have to do the math because it's different for every card if you have a graphics card that has a 180 megahertz clock and you add 165 to that your overclock is going to be affectionate effectively twelve hundred and forty-five megahertz or 1.25 gigs depending on which number you like to look at I like the bigger number so we'll go with 1200 and 45 now memory clock is one of those things that a lot of people get very confused about what you have to think about is the fact that you are dealing with double density ramp you're dealing with VDD r5 with just about any graphics card made today and what that means is DD is double density so if I add 300 megahertz to my memory clock I'm really adding 600 megahertz because the double density is the RAM multiplier of 2 so if I have in my case a gtx 680 which has advertised 6,000 megahertz ram if i add 300 to this i'm really adding 600 megahertz to my 6000 for a total overclock of 6 to 600 now on the surface when you listen to that for the first time if you're a noob and you have no idea what any of this means you probably went what the fuck is he talking about he's throwing numbers at me I don't want numbers I just won a game and overclocking blah blah blah what you can do to be safe guys is just leave this number at zero and the reason why I'm telling you to do that is there's a video I'm gonna be doing in the future called how does memory clock speed really affect your gaming performance on your graphics card we're gonna talk about and debunk the importance of having super super fast Ram and what it really means to your overall gaming performance and frames per second or different types of games little teaser for a future video for now you can leave it at 0 if you understand how the memory clock works just go ahead and start playing with that number you can't really hurt anything the worst case scenario if you overclock any of these functions too far blue screen of death or a system lock up or an invidious case usually just a driver crash and then you restart can't really hurt anything most graphics cards today are very foolproof if you're using an old card an old card you may end up I don't even want to say you may end up damaging something but because of you know liabilities and stuff this is definitely do at your own risk now down here on the bottom you can see we have different profiles apply reset settings and save if you want to set this overclock hit apply there your graphics card is now expecting to see this set up but you notice over here on the monitoring right here the core clock which is where my cursor is we're still running at 1006 which is my base clock not my boost clock my base clock well why didn't it go up well because if you go into settings here I have if you go over to the right on the top bar you'll find profiles you can set up profiles and what that shows here is 2d and 3d so if I have a 2d program running like a video or a 2d game you know flat side scroller type game you can tell it use whatever profile I've saved to profile number one if I want to set a 3d profile you can see I have these different profiles that have saved and by doing that if I just set something hit save they start to glow and I can say okay save it to number two there you'll see number three number two number one so you have these sliders move select it hit apply and there you go so if you go back in here to your Profiles I can say in 3d profile or a 3d game like Battlefield 3 or any other new game it doesn't have to be new just any game that uses any sort of 3d rendering I can say load profile number two when you realize the card has gone into a 3d mode and it will automatically apply the overclock and when you turn off a 3d game or you quit gaming it'll automatically turn off the overclock and down here you can see a plight overclocking at system startup just leave that on you'll never have to think about it ever again it's just that easy now what I like to use when it comes to testing stability even though this comes with a built-in program called combustor if you click this kay it'll bring up that program I don't like this program it doesn't truly stress your graphics card nearly enough I like to use Valley benchmark and if you open up valley benchmark and you hit run this is all this is also a free program you've seen it in some other videos the link is in the description let this run for a solid hour if you can get this program to run for a solid hour and you don't get any crashes then it's safe to say that your overclock is stable now you may find that some games crash even though you have a solid overclock running in valley benchmark and the reason for that is because well you know every game tends to use the graphics card in a different way some people will put more emphasis on shaders some people will put a lot more emphasis on you know different textures modeling and there's different functionality that happens inside a graphics card and every game utilizes it in a different way so you may find some games are not quite as stable so if that happens back off your overclock just a couple of points on the megahertz and see what happens now what I want to do now is show you guys what happens and how much performance actually increases when it comes to your overclock so I'm gonna turn off the overclocks here and nothing is gonna happen when I run a 3d game we're gonna start up 3d mark 11 and then we are gonna take a look at the score and we'll compare before and after on the over on the 3dmark score and the video specifically the video score and we'll see how much extra performance that we actually pulled out of this simply by moving a few sliders on the MSI Afterburner so through the magic of editing we will be right back okay so here we go guys here's my first run right here with my 1 GTX 680 in my i7 3770 even as top speeds I'm getting 92% better results than everyone else it's kind of weird considering I guess this whole big chunk of the graph right here really makes up half of the people though that doesn't statistically add up whatever what we want to take a look at here actually is the graphics core physics core is gonna definitely change based on the processors you're using your your speed and all that but the graphics core is completely independent of that and I've got a 99 oh nine and if you take a look at right here you can see my overclock never kicked in this is my boost clock of eleven hundred and twenty four so let's go ahead and set my overclock right here and now let's go ahead and see how the score changes and do the magic of editing we will be able to write back there you go guys now we have an eleven thousand thirty three piece score and a graphics score jumped all the way up to eleven thousand two hundred seventy three and I jumped up two percent on the better than results up to the nine better than ninety four percent of all of the results were using this hardware so there you go guys you don't have to be Walter White and make meth or sling crack cocaine or whore yourself out on the corner just to afford the biggest and baddest graphics card on the market when you can just get one that fits your budget overclock it a little bit and pull out more performance for every dollar that you've spent on this graphics card so go out download these programs are down the description overclock these things let me know how bad you did and or how good you did them by bad I mean how badass you did overclocking your graphics cards let me know on Twitter and Facebook all that stuff's down the description I'd love to hear how much you were able to overclock your graphics cards and how much better your frames per second are so happy tweak and have fun and by tweaking I definitely mean computer tweaking Emma you know some of you guys may do a little bit of that stuff in my computer just farted my laptop farted some of the battery's dying okay guys I'll see you later check out my other videos remember in the future we're gonna talk about graphics card RAM speed and how much that really matters take care