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Is it normal to use different OC settings for different games?

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7/31/12 at 1:21am
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I've had a 965/1325 OC running fine for several hours playing BF3 on my 6950, but when I play Crysis it crashes on 955/1250. Is it normal to use different settings for different games or should my OC be stable across the board all the time?
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7/31/12 at 1:40am
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I've had a 965/1325 OC running fine for several hours playing BF3 on my 6950, but when I play Crysis it crashes on 955/1250. Is it normal to use different settings for different games or should my OC be stable across the board all the time?


It may take longer but believe me if your OC is not 100% stable it may crash in Battlefield 3, it may take a while to happen but it will happen.
I used to use more than one OC profile for my games but then I found out if an OC crash in one game it will end up crashing in the other.
Maybe your card artifact to death in BF3 but you don't notice it, as not all artifacts are noticeable to your eyes, especially the fast ones.
From now on I always use 100% stable OC as the difference doesn't worth the risk between the bench OC and max stable OC.
I don't want to risk losing a progress of my gameplay because the stupid card crashed suddenly after hours of playing wink.gif .
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7/31/12 at 1:49am
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Are you sure? Crysis just crashed again on 920/1250. I've read about people getting much much better than that at 1.18v, which is the voltage I'm on.
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7/31/12 at 1:58am
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Are you sure? Crysis just crashed again on 920/1250. I've read about people getting much much better than that at 1.18v, which is the voltage I'm on.

It is the luck of the draw mate. You can't do anything about it if your card can't overclock well.
My old GTX 470 was a dud and can do about only 750 MHz (1.088mV) gaming stable. some people can get about 850-900 MHz on the same voltage I was using with that card.

If you are confident that it is stable in BF3 then make a profile to it. but If its me I won't do that. I don't trust an unstable OC.
In my experience always if an OC is not stable in some game it ends up crashing in the other, it may run for hours in light games but still crash if I played long enough.
Edited by HeadlessKnight - 7/31/12 at 2:03am
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7/31/12 at 2:13am
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That's odd. The load is just as high when I play BF3 as in Crysis. Well, I was saving about 10fps in BF3 so I hope it won't crash there in the future for me. It was only crashing at a super intense part of Crysis.
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