Doing so is an indicator better cooling is needed or throttling back on voltage and clock is called for. True, most GPU's will throttle back at such high temperatures (the reason it's not likely to be catastrophic) but bouncing off the limiters will still degrade it much faster than staying in lower temp ranges. until it won't run stable even at stock clocks and voltage in a year or so. For many GPU's Afterburner is perfectly capable of setting up an overclock under a high (but safely under catastrophic maximum) voltage and clock that will run a poorly cooled GPU at very high temperatures. However: running any semiconductor device at extremely high temperatures will degrade it earlier in life. PSU aside, I agree that any setting you make with Afterburner is not likely to be immediately 'catastrophic' to itself or the PC simply because of the way GPU's and CPU's are designed today.

I have one AMD Radeon R9 Fury Nano Graphic card with the newest AMD Drivers. A low-spec, underpowered or even just old PSU cooking off when an overclocked GPU and CPU get maxed out in a stress test can be the very definition of catastrophic. Why does MSI afterburner greyed out the values for voltage, Temp, Core clock, memory clock etc. For one thing, any answer presumes you have a PSU capable of adequate power delivery to both the CPU and GPU for any demands they may make on it, whether separately or simultaneously. Just cut to the chase.Ĭlick to expand.The state of hardware design and overclocking as a selling feature and the extremely wide variability of cooling capabilities in finished home-built PC's make it a bit of a 50/50 answer like it or not. I'm sick of endlessly looking through forums with people who give 50/50 answers. (Next time I get a PC I'm stay VERY far away from this program) I just feel just because I overclocked the graphics card, I've lost value and the 'pristine' feeling to my graphics card. Or will it shut-down, (the graphics card) automatically before it reaches way too hot temps? My personal question is: Will playing with the Core Clock/Memory 'the main sliders' damage the graphics card?īecause I touched those and not the voltage. (This is including the voltage setting you have to enable in options.)

NVIDIA lists the GTX 1080 Ti as a 265W Thermal Design Power (TDP) card and my. Realistically, the card does not pull in more than 220-260 watts, because of the voltage limits explained in the Boost 3.0 section. I understand 'crashes' by overclocking too much, and I Understand 'degrading' the life of the graphics card by a lot by Overclocking.ġ.) Will playing with any of the sliders damage my graphics card? The NVIDIA Founders Edition GTX 1080 Ti with a single 8-pin and 6-pin PEG connectors should not use more than 300 watts under full load. Like, can I play with the sliders all I want without damaging my graphics card?

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