
Once you've OC'd the core and memory it's worth setting a custom fan curve (also with afterburner) I always aim to keep air cooled GPUs below 70 degrees, although they won't throttle till 84+, it's just my preference to keep below 70. Once you reach a point where you see glitches/artifacts bump it down a couple of steps (40-50MHz) then move on to the memory and do the same steps. Then start bumping up the core clock 10-20MHz at a time while running a windowed benchmark program (like unigine valley/heaven) and watching for artifacts. GPU overclocking is pretty risk free too, just DL afterburner, max out the power target for the card (dependant on bios it can be anywhere from 105-130%+). It's always worth overclocking CPU and GPU and ram, it's extra performance at no extra cost!Īs long as your cooling is sufficient it won't shorten component life in any significant way either, unless you plan on using the same GPU/CPU for 10years+.
