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for those of you who have been asking me for a graphics card overclocking guide your wait is finally over we're gonna kill two birds with one stone in this video the first bird we're gonna kill in this bed I'm not gonna now it's a bad analogy has to do with the tutorial itself I'm gonna show you guys how I personally overclock all of my graphics cards assuming they can be overclocked further than they already have been out of the box and then I'm gonna show you the kinds of performance benefits you should expect to see with such an overclock now just for kicks I've also down clocked my GPU in one scenario and down clocked my memory in another scenario so you're gonna see four separate trend lines and four separate bars in these graphs but that's just to give you a feel for what you should expect the overclocked one or the other or in this case under clock one or the other that's just like coming from a from a reference cooler kind of standpoint so reference coolers always have lower clock speeds and then the third-party coolers you know made by brands like gigabyte MSI Asus all those will generally have higher core clocks and memory clocks just because the coolers are usually better than the blower style coolers of nvidia and AMD so with that before i jump ahead of myself i'm gonna show you the tutorial takes like two minutes don't bother taking notes it's very simple let's go and jump into that first up we need to download our overclocking tool i just shoot for msi afterburner though programs like gigabyte OC guru and sapphire Triax are just as viable I prefer afterburner for its versatility you can't amp with practically any graphics card setting including those rather obscure shader frequencies and even fan speeds once you've downloaded and installed afterburner open it up and get a feel for the user interface the left contains several slider tabs voltage control which we won't be tampering with in this video the power limiter core clog memory clock and fan controller you can also program several overclocking profiles for various scenarios and store them into After Burner itself on the bottom right are the apply reset and settings buttons the apply button will save and execute the current clock fan voltage and power settings you've just toggled the reset button will restore the car to its original settings and the settings button opens up an entirely different window with literally hundreds of different control settings monitors and editors I'll let you play around with that on your own time after the East is the hardware monitor which provides a visual live feedback of what's going on with your system anything from GPU temperatures card fan speeds it even CPU and memory usages can be found on this tab you just have to scroll down quite a bit once you are comfortable with the software tool prepare to overclock are you ready this can get pretty intense pay very close attention there we go oh you were expecting more no that's that's literally it that's how you overclock a graphics card I should confess I raised both by 100 megahertz prior to this and my card crashed so 50 megahertz is likely the threshold for this car which was already severely overclocked out of the box mind you I should also know that you can raise or lower one without raising or lowering the other and vice versa the memory and core controllers are entirely separate on these cards by the way if you're suspecting that 50 megahertz isn't all that much and probably not worth it just wait till you see the benchmarks once you're satisfied with your preset - click apply and close the software if you want to have your settings initiate upon startup you can click the button on the bottom left hand corner of the afterburner panel though I don't recommend doing this until you've verified that your overclock is actually stable and to do that we'll need to run the heaven benchmark which will stress our GPU in a well rounded series of cutscenes you can also play your favourite GPU intensive triple-a title for a few hours to ensure that real-world stresses won't deal the driver crash either if this does happen hop back into afterburner and adjust your settings accordingly at first it will be difficult to gauge your car's overclocking tolerance however as with the CPU you'll get a feel for just how stubborn you chip actually is can't say I didn't tell you so write a very simple process just be mindful of slightly less bars too far to the right especially if you already have a car that's that's factory overclocked like this one so you're not gonna have much additional overclocking Headroom I was able to squeeze out that additional 50 mega Hertz in both the GPU and memory but after the benchmark finish I decided to open up after Africa I decide to open up shadowplay and you know record the screen so I could show you the results live and that didn't happen that the car crash so we saw the Nvidia driver crash notification on the bottom right-hand side of the screen sometimes your screen will shut off it'll reboot and then it'll pretty much run your car to stock maybe even in safe mode like mine did where I was only giving like 22 FPS after that whereas I was usually getting about 4 year 45 so better require it for the most part of computer restart and then your card should be running full speed again and it's full potential so apart from that I have two other scenarios I have the underclock GPU scenario and the underclock memory scenario the way that the the keys are labeled the first frequencies that's gonna be around 1500 for all four that your of your core frequency that's your GP frequency and then the second megahertz value is your memory frequency so you'd be able to see that the memory was overclocked in one and then under clocked in another and then it was the same in two same with the the core clock so keep those in mind but anyway I'm gonna stop talking here the results so it's pretty awesome to see that with just a 50 megahertz overclock on both our GPU and our memory we were able to achieve an average of an additional FPS in heaven at least which is almost entirely graphic space so our CP through like I have much of an influencer there I didn't show you any other gaming benchmarks because the results are gonna vary drastically so a game like GTA 5 or City skylines which I've shown in previous videos are those are more CPU intensive so you're not gonna see those kinds of gains by just overclocking your graphics card but in in very GPU intensive games something like dirt rally Crysis 3 those kinds of games will benefit even more from an overclock and that's what's indicative of heaven benchmark here so with that keep in mind that not all overclocking scenarios will be the same so you might not be able to overclock your card anywhere near as much as I was able to or anywhere near as a little I kept 250 megahertz in poof what it's already rated at not a great overclock but it's it's fantastically overclocked out of the box so I can't really complain there but you definitely saw that coming from something like a reference cooler frequency both our memory and our our GPU that's that's a big jump coming from that to to something like this which I wanted to basically sum up this video with if you're if you're kind of struggling between a reference cooler and something that's custom cooled not custom cool but you know third-party cool by a manufacturer like gigabyte or asus or msi those kinds of manufacturers are gonna they're gonna throw really nice coolers into their into their cards so that they can achieve additional overclocks that would yield better performance in games and that's their selling points right so that's what they're trying to tell you to do is buy our cards because our cards are better performers than the Nvidia stock cards or the AMD stock cards so that's you know that's that's really the gist of this video here but overclock if you can go and experiment with it if your your drivers start crashing this stuff just tone it down you're gonna be fine just don't do anything outrageous and like over volt your GQ any of that that's something I didn't mention here and that's because my voltage was blocked I couldn't mess my voltage on this card just because it's impossible but if you were doing something like water cooling a card and you had a card that was voltage unlocked then that would be something else you would want to do so if you're interested in my house which affects overclocking and what you should kind of do to gauge both of those out and get those kind of into with each other check out the card above me where I overclock my 6600 K very interesting video I eat it like 4.8 4.9 gigahertz but it requires a lot of voltage and that's what that video is about but with that I want to hear from you in the comment sections below be sure to let me know what kind of graphics card or card sets a liar cross fight you're currently 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