At that point, we tweak various other settings (power allowance, vCore, memory clock). We increment the clock-rate and other settings as the card continues to exhibit stability, stopping only once artifacting or driver crashes appear. The core functions of overclocking remain the same we're still using manual stepping and sliders to achieve high, sustained overclocks, but a new auto OC tool (currently only with EVGA Precision) makes limit finding easier. It's gotten more advanced – but not more complex. You want to control your thermals by balancing voltage and clock, not by simply throttling down if you get too hot.Overclocking has changed with Pascal. The thermal control of the setting does not have value in overclocking. And if your psu is tight (which it never is) then bumping it can strain that too. If you're overclocking you usually want to bump this to the maximum, with the caveat that if you are extreme overclocking you need to make sure it remains lower than the available pci-e power or you risk actual damage. This usually isn't the same as the TDP (though maybe for nvidia cards it is). It's a multiplier of some base wattage value, which you can probabvly find somewhere in the docs for your card. It's sort of the GPU equivalent of CPU turbo boost. But usually it's used just to keep temps and overall power use down so that the PSU isn't strained and the temps don't go crazy. This can be a safety feature to prevent them from exceeding the limits of the pci-e power delivery (something like 300W for a 8-pin plus 6-pin connectors). GPUs will automatically throttle based on their power use.

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