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6/9/12 at 6:49pm
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Sort of sounds like an unstable stock card. I'd consider RMA'ing that card.

Now I can't even boot without getting nvlddmkm.sys BSOD. I've tried driver versions 301.25(drivers on the CD that came with the GPU), 301.34(official oldest), 301.42 (official latest), 301.59, 301.71. None of them fixed the problem. Refitted my GTX 260 for now. I'm leaving RMA as the last resort because there are many people complaining of crashes as well so I am unable to isolate whether it is my drivers or my card.
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6/9/12 at 7:25pm
I started off using GPU Tweak, because I have an Asus card.. That thing didn't work at all. Terrible program.

Then I went onto Afterburner, because my last card was an MSi Radeon HD6950, so i'd used it before.. But eventually decided to try out this Precision-X - and after a little getting used to, I prefer it. It's a much more interesting user interface IMO.
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post #133 of 2437
6/10/12 at 7:38am
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I turned my over-clocking off completly. I have 2 670 SLI evga FTW and even when I overclocked and ran a test fine with no crashing or artifacts as per this thread....bf3 would crash after about a hour. I know it's due to OC. My temps are fine. Apparently bf3 is very picky about OC cards. As soon as I turned off all OC settings...I can run it or hours. Even with a little OC bf3 would crash. I mostly play bf3 so its not worth it to me. You guys may run the test fine but play bf3 that's where u will in come into issues.

BF3 is horrible for OC'd hardware.

before my 670 i had SLi 460's. i had them moderately OC'd to 850/2000 running stable for almost 2 years. i always had tons of artifacts in BF3 unless i turned the OC off. never had this problem in anything other than BF3...
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6/10/12 at 1:38pm
hey guys, I herd OC'ing mem is moot.

True story or not
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6/10/12 at 3:34pm
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hey guys, I herd OC'ing mem is moot.
True story or not

when finding my memory clock i had the core set to default and added +350mhz to the memory. this gave me a better score and higher fps in Heaven than with a +50mhz bump to the core with memory at default. so no, it is definitely not "moot".
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6/10/12 at 4:17pm
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hey guys, I herd OC'ing mem is moot.
True story or not

Mostly true w/Fermi (esp. the top end cards) but with Kepler not so much true. The memory bandwidth of Kepler is not improved as much as the core power has improved, so bandwidth is more likely to be a limiting factor. Of course it depends on the test, level of AA, things like that ... some tests will show a fairly dramatic improvement with a memory OC, others not quite so much. There's also a lot of headroom for OC'ing mem on (most samples of) these cards, so it's worth doing for sure.
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6/10/12 at 5:05pm
Where is the voltage slider ? When i go to the Adjust Voltage tab above test/monitoring is just shows greyed out sliders that I can not move. Running an Msi 670OC.

Nvm I reinstalled it and it seems to be fine, cheers and thanks for the guide!
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6/10/12 at 5:36pm
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I've been following the guide and when I increased the gpu clock a second time I got the below crash.
Is that the error that shows up when you've overclocked too high? Is there anything that I can tweak to make it possibly work? Voltage and power are already maxed out. Or at this point is the only option bringing down the clock? Thanks.
What hurts is the monitor graphs look so good right up until it crashed. frown.gif
Is "D3D10 App window::swap_window():Device removed." the error that you guys got when overclocking too high? And if not, what does that error mean?
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^Could someone confirm if that error means unstable overclock or does it mean something else is wrong?


Also no matter what I do I can't seem to get any of the Precision X OSD monitoring numbers to show up when running the Heaven Benchmark (its running in full screen mode). Anyone know what could be wrong? Thanks.
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6/10/12 at 6:12pm
Quick question. The guide mentions that you should back off your gpu clock if you have oscillation as little as 13mhz that doesn't correspond to a gpu usage drop. I'm on a Asus GTX 670 DC2 with a Kepler boost of +144. At +115 to the boost clock (1239) I'm getting 2 or 3 oscillations of 9mhz over the course of one Heaven run. Should I be shooting for no oscillation or is there an acceptable number??? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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6/10/12 at 6:41pm
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^Could someone confirm if that error means unstable overclock or does it mean something else is wrong?
Also no matter what I do I can't seem to get any of the Precision X OSD monitoring numbers to show up when running the Heaven Benchmark (its running in full screen mode). Anyone know what could be wrong? Thanks.

Yes, that's a crash signalling an unstable overclock, mentions this explicitly in the overclocking guide.

Step 4: Fixing Instability
So either your application crashed or produced an error, your display driver crashed or became unresponsive, you Blue-screened, you've notice graphical anomalies or your Benchmark score has decreased, or changing voltage doesn't stabilize the variance in your Max Boost. This usually means you're over your maximum stable offset.
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