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welcome back guys and today I'm doing a much requested video and that's how to overclock your graphics card so today I'm going to be using my GTX 1060 gaming X from MSI and I'm going to be overclocking this graphics card taking you guys through a step-by-step basis so the first two things you'll want to do is download the program's MSI Afterburner and also UniGene heaven so put the links in the description below so those two programs but let's get on with it so after you've installed both these programs I want you guys to open up msi afterburner and now in this program there's going to be a heap of different options that come up but don't worry about that I'm going to be guiding you guys through each of these settings and giving you my own personal tips and tricks on how to deal with them so now this mechanical will here I want you guys to left-click on that and I want you to left-click start with Windows and also start minimized and then over on the unlock voltage control I want you to left-click that and then go up to the fan tab here so left click on that and then left click enable user-defined automatic fan control because what happens out of the box with a graphics cards and fan curves is that they're generally set pretty low and that's the load noise however with that low noise and the low fan curve profiles is that what we get is that the grabs card will be running hotter and when the grabs cars running hotter because the fans aren't pushing enough air through that'll mean lesser overclocks or not as good overclock as you could have so we're still going to retain those low noise settings when the graphics card is idling on the desktop by holding down left click and dragging this little box here and so I like that at 20 degrees I like it at 20 percent we can even go a little bit more and say 30 degrees can have that at 30% then we hold this left click this down and I want my graphics card as soon as the game's booting up I want this thing pretty aggressive so we've got 60% fan speeds at 40 degrees C and with 80 degrees we can have that at 50 I mean so 80% we can have that at 50 degrees and then we hold down the left box here and drag that up to a hundred percent at 70 degrees now once you guys to click OK and then it'll ask you to restart so you press you get and now down the bottom right corner you can left-click the little icon here and the MSI Afterburner because we started at minimized we can then open it up again and we've got all these options here with the core voltage now being unlocked so we can slide that all the way to the top here but do be careful with this setting because some graphics cards they just can't handle overclocking with extra voltage and extra heat so what we've got here is an extra hundred millivolts on the graphics card and so for instance make r9 290x that I recently overclocked in a video I couldn't actually set this to the maximum because it was getting too hot and also I had an induced rx 470 Strix where I had to be very careful with this to this setting here so depending on the graphics card you will have to be careful with it but for a lot of graphics cards it should be okay to just set this slider to the maximum also just below that you can set the power limit and the temp limit all the way to the maximum - and now I'm using a GTX 1060 gaming X which is a pretty low powered graphics card in terms of power consumption but it is a pretty powerful card in terms of performance so something like this setting all these maximum sliders here if you have a GTX 1060 or a gtx 1070 or even 1080 should be absolutely fine now we go below that core clock this is where things start to get a little bit trickier because we're going to have to find these out for our own graphics card now every graphics card is different so I want you guys with the core clock to just play around with it and I'm going to try straight up 200 megahertz which is really aggressive on a GTX 1060 so we're going to lock that in and then we're going to open up heaven benchmark MSI Afterburner with the heaven benchmark left-click run and now if it crashes we'll see that our screen will just flicker and all sorts of crazy behavior will happen sometimes we'll even have to restart our computer so don't be afraid now we can see here it's actually crashing now I'm recording this on a different computer so you'll see that my webcam won't actually crash out so don't worry about that but it's on your main computer you'll get this behavior exactly what's coming up on this screen here so let me see here this 200 megahertz on the core it was just too aggressive so we're going to try and get back into the desktop now sometimes you'll have to control or delete alt tab as it's just yet going crazy at the moment so and this is the one thing I've wanted to show you guys overclocking can get pretty confusing sometimes so there it is stopped working so we could see that that overclock was too aggressive so we're going to try and lower that now by a good 50 mega tree let's try 150 now because that was just crashing straight away there was no chance that that overclock was going to work so we're going to try this next one and the reason we're using the heav'n benchmark because it's not the most graphically intensive benchmark but it's so quick to load up and it's so quick to find an unstable overclock like this so that's why I'm using this first and later on you're going to see I'm going to use another benchmark to test for 100% ability so this is kind of doing the same behavior as before so a hundred and fifty megahertz on the core clock is probably not not possible hopefully we can quit before it we might have definitely control-alt-delete again just to get out of this program because it's crashing again so we're going to close that window off and we're going to try and lower now the overclocks by 50 megahertz again so we're going to try for a hundred and 107 that should be okay we'll try that and then we'll run it let's lock that in and we'll run this again one more time so overloading I grabbed art I want you guys to see some of the frustrations because there's going to be a lot of different guides out there where maybe they just like okay lock it in it should be okay but this is where you're going to get a lot of people going to be overcoming they're gonna be like okay my computer's crashing I'm just not going to overclock I'm just going to go back to the default settings but I want to show you guys that crashing is completely normal your graphics card is not going to be broken Woori no a lot of people think oh my god computer crash my whole thing's broken know all these settings in MSI Afterburner they're completely safe you can't really break your graphics card with these settings unless you're grabs card the cooler is not attached to the graphics card properly which is a different problem altogether so we can see here this is actually running okay so if it is it's not crashing this time around so what this means is that our core clock we exit that now because that's pretty good I mean usually I like to run it for a lot longer because we're doing a tutorial we're going to sort of fast-track it a little bit so but what this means is that our core clock on this graph is card is somewhere around here this is somewhere where our graphics card is able to run without crashing it'll probably be a little bit less I imagine it'd be a little bit less maybe somewhere around there but it could be this as well that's the thing so we've done the core clock now we're going to move over to the memory clock and now I usually like to just chuck these up at 300 megahertz at a time so we're going to try 300 megahertz lock that in and see if it runs and you'll get the same behavior if your graphics card is crashing while you're doing this it'll be the same as the core clock the program will crash weird behavior will come up but sometimes with the GPU memory overclock you'll actually have to restart your computer too so I found on AMD cards as well especially on AMD cards like my r9 290x when I was overlooking the memory I had to restart the whole computer quite a few times so restarting and crashing guys is completely normal so here the 300 megahertz overclocked is running completely normal so far like for one minute so which isn't really a long time to be stable bit let's talk more once we find sort of more speeds so we're gonna go back into msi afterburner and chuck another 300 megahertz on that overclock and then we're going to left-click run and we're going to see if this runs at 600 megahertz so this is pretty aggressive I'm pretty surprised if this works I'll be pretty happy because this is a pretty aggressive overclock on the memory we're essentially getting near gddr5 X means I believe and this is only GDR five memory so that's pretty cool now even you it's actually this is pretty good this is running absolutely fine as well so like I said before we're going to kind of fast track so we're going to lock in a higher memory overclock here we're going to try for 900 megahertz that this will not work at all I don't think this is really aggressive if this works I have won the silicon lottery in terms of memory overclocking but I just want to show you guys that crashing and show you guys again like the core clock the pro well okay there we got lines through that this even before the benchmark loaded this wasn't working so we can see here just flat nothing so we're going to just our control-alt-delete and yeah we even got a fatal error there okay so that was not stable at all so we're going to drop this and we are going to up the we're going to drop it down to 750 somewhere in between so we had 600 before and now we've got 900 so in a try for 750 and we're going to see if we get any problems so memory overclocked you don't have to be too precise here the core clock is always more important than the memory clock keep that in mind that's well okay so we assertively loaded up the benchmark we had some problems here this you can see there the art that's called artifacting so essentially this memory overclock is not stable so that's the second problem you're going to have the first problem is crashing if you graphically crashes like it was before then it's way off being stable if it starts artifacting like it just did then which is where all these weird things come up that shouldn't be there you can then know that you're probably pretty close to being stable so now we were at 750 we can try maybe 650 and see if we have any problems with this overclock so this is also going to be the overclock that I will be using for my upcoming showdown between the 1060 and the rx 580 so this will be interesting to see how high this graphics card goes so you can see here it's running okay so far so good but I usually like to give this a good 10 to 30 minutes at least in this benchmark before I come back for you guys and say if it's relatively stable or not so we're going to let this run for a good chunk of time and then I'm going to come back and see how it went so now we've been running the hebben benchmarks for a good 30 minutes and also decided to run the inbuilt benchmark so which gives you a score and we see here overclocked we're scoring over 3,800 points and not overclocked out-of-the-box settings are getting around 3,500 so we're gaining a good chunk of performance near a 10% increase in this benchmark alone however unity in heaven is only one benchmark and it's not the most GPU intense benchmark so now we're going to move over to fire strike and test that in that benchmark if that's really GPU intensive and then we're going to see if this overclock passes if it doesn't then we're going to have to drop our overclocks by a little bit more and then we should be stable in most games though keep in mind that this benchmark here the UniGene heaven I use this because as I set up before it just loads up so quickly and it finds crashes really quickly so we can sort of homed in on our levels really quickly with this program and then use fire straight for the finishing touches so let's get over to that benchmark so this is fire strike it's a free program though you will get a demo if you haven't purchased the license which is fine you can just download that I'll put the link in the description below for you guys so download this install this and then you can click on run now I'm expecting this to crash because every time I've found like a relatively stable overclock in heaven it's actually crashed in fire strikes so hopefully this works as we sit here this benchmark it just takes a long time to load up which is generally why I don't use it to test first stable overclocks that good 20 seconds you're just wasting is time you've got a waste over and over again so and I expect it to crash like pretty much either in the second run or even in the combined score so we'll see here that it's getting through the benchmark okay but I'm just like sitting here and waiting for it okay then there we go it actually crashed on me right now so we've see there that this is actually good for you guys to see that even though it may appear stable in some gains in some benchmarks it's actually not a hundred percent stable so what we're going to do is we're going to drop that by a good fifty megahertz on the memory and we're going to drop the core clock by a good twenty five megahertz so hopefully this passes the benchmark so let's load that up and let's stress test this and see if it works okay so we just completed our benchmark there with the lower settings that we had on there so this is pretty much close to being stable now we want to run this benchmark a few times play a few games but we may have to lower this just by a little bit more or same with the memory clocks as well in after lower these just by a little bit more so we see that we can lock that in and we can go to let's click on the Save there and we can save that to any number of these profiles so we left-click on 3 and then also you can left-click on start up so essentially every time we boot the computer now this program will load up minimized and it'll lock in our overclocks automatically so now we're getting free performance all the time all day every day so this is really awesome it's so awesome in fact that you may now have to wear PC glasses while you are playing video games so we finished the fire strike benchmark and we've got a graphics score of over 15,000 if we compare that to the original score we can still we've gained a good chunk of performance and not only this benchmark but also the heaven benchmark and what this means is when you're playing video games you're going to get more FPS and for doing absolutely nothing this is free performance in your graphics card waiting to be utilized and hopefully this tutorial has helped you guys get that extra performance out of your graphics card and if you appreciate 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