Free Performance: Beginners guide to GPU overclocking

[@STRAGGLER36]

This is an excellent start. You've managed to be concise and do not waste viewers time with well you know junk. It would be great if you would do another video on other aspects of precision X1 as well as something on afterburner. Assuming you have not already. Keep up the good work. It's refreshing to see useful concise tutorials on KZbin.

[@jesusalexanderguzmanozuna214]

thank you bro, ive had this software for over a year and had no idea how to use it, you made it easy and straight forward.

[@TripleB-vw1ob]

Very helpful and straightforward guide. You are doing a great job with the channel.

[@Argentbuilds]

Really appreciate it, any thing you would like to see us review? Or something you think we could be doing better. We are trying to get to 1000 subscribers so youtube will make our channel a higher priority.

[@VeniVidiAjax]

Great vid mate! I bought a 3090, and was to scared to overclock… you know afraid to break it or whatever. Mine crashed @ 200mhz, but 150 did the job.

[@Pianoman999]

Thank you! Simply explained and easy to follow - right on!

[@Argentbuilds]

Thanks for watching!

[@smithtechsea]

Keep up the solid content!Lighting feels too dim in the pit, I would recommend brightening up your workspace. Good luck with the channel!

[@Argentbuilds]

We order a bunch of studio lights they should be here Saturday!

[@JayzBeerz]

Need a better mic set up. I had to raise my volume to max to hear you. But thank you for this.

[@Argentbuilds]

Thanks for the feedback we changed microphones not to long after this video was published

[@coloniser.-]

thank you

[@ahmed_aam]

i got blue screen when i tried it

[@FranciscoLopez-cc7ui]

Hi my friend I just got a question for you I hope you’re still around this video is about four years old I just installed the precision next one and I noticed when I turn off the computer and start back to computer the settings they’re back on zero so I don’t know if that is something that is supposed to happen after I do my Settings which I did 100 on the GPU clock in 100 on the memory clock and I saved it I apply for saving it but still when I turn the computer back on It still goes back to zero can you please let me know if that something that is supposed to happen thank you

[@choppergirl]

On my FTW3 3070 RTX... I got 2160Mghz out of my GPU and 8400Mghz out of the Memory Stable because of the huge headroom of having 3080 size fans on it. Defaults are something like 1920 and 7000. The cost is a lot more heat inside your case... and GPU temps up from 40C to 60C. But it actually throttles down really well so for my purposes, 99% of the time it's at idle 400mghz unless I'm locally AI generating images and got it pegged at 100%, Gaming uses about half my GPU, and video rendering uses about 80%. I left my voltage setting at the lowest allt he way to the left, and my power target at 100, and my temperature target at 72C. fan curve is set at "Stealth" My Ryzen 7950x CPU I actua;ly run underclocked by about 8% with a throttle limit of 140watts and 85C tempeterature limit in bios. That easily solves all the overhyped Ryzen 7000 series overheating problems, setting your temperature limit in BIOS ot 85C. This keeps it at around 5.3mghz max as opposed to 5.7mghz stock which will go all the way up to 95C which I don't really feel comfortable with.

[@divine0enigma]

Why neglect to mention voltage?

[@fillfreire2169]

'i've been gaming so hard i ended up at the hospital! YES!

[@ThisOLmaan]

LoL Nice hope ur ok and recovered friend to get back in the saddle and game on whooooRah

[@Bey0ndNames]

fire vid brah

[@teddybeitler]

Hey thanks for the tips! Great video!

[@Argentbuilds]

Thanks for watching!

[@stanislavslavev2265]

Thanks for the vid! I got the evga 3070 ftw and would like to get it overclocked, but not sure what to do for it exactly. I'm seeing that I have more of an issue with memory capacity than speed as I am a content creator and use a 4k monitor, so I think that pushes it. Any advice on improvement for that except on waiting for possible 16gb ti version :P :D Great video also, keep doing more!

[@Argentbuilds]

Thanks for watching! Sounds like you have memory intensive work loads. Besides overclocking them as much as possible not much else you can really do besides hope for a Ti variant

[@dimitri9634]

Great video man

[@Argentbuilds]

Thanks for watching :)

[@JayzBeerz]

I found out the GPU Tweak is trash. it wouldn't let me OC the power to 110% but the EVGA and MSI did.

[@purplewasfun]

How come my ICX only shows "GPU1" in the middle. Doesn't show mem1, mem2, pwr, ect. I have 3080. Help pls

[@RuskiVodkaaaa]

I know this is old but I have Evga 3080 FTW 3 Ultra and I'm trying to OC it. On Precision X1 the clock speed is constantly jumping MHz values (From 210 - 1800). Is that normal since it's idle?

[@Argentbuilds]

Yeah for sure it bounces all over the place under idel, it does it on MSI afterburner as well

[@tylercalhoun2837]

Can anyone help me? I used this guide and now I can’t boot my pc past bios. I get a black display. I’ve been trying to fix this in bios for hours, removed the battery from my mobo, no idea what to do now.

[@kevinsolano3264]

Did you ever solve it

[@alankarsengupta1309]

Why don't i have the vf curve tuner in my application??

[@xtreme1913]

I subed by the way I didn't think you could touch the memory clock of thought it would blow it up thank you for let me know tho

[@Argentbuilds]

No problem! Thanks for watching

[@williamflynn9860]

thanks bro

[@Argentbuilds]

Thanks for watching!

[@Orthaluminox]

I like it! Good info no bullshit!

[@tomatobortolato]

After crashing it comes back to default like you said but it also wiped all the saves even the good ones which is just dumb.

[@Argentbuilds]

It shouldn't do that ill look into it

[@AOJOPhotography]

When I use the scan feature it just fails ?

[@Argentbuilds]

Do you have it installed on steam or through the browser

[@KenKen-yd9ji]

i set my memory clock too high my pc froze and now it cant boot. What do I do

[@Argentbuilds]

There should be a bios reset switch of some sort on your motherboard

[@acid1787]

Can someone tell me how to lock a clock and voltage in Vf curve tuner?

[@medomathkour9665]

I need serious help my evga prescison x1 is stuck at 10 percent to 30 percent power target at boost and it won’t go up this happened after I got blue screen by accidentally sliding MHz over

[@medomathkour9665]

Also like you said it went back to “default” but it’s power target is at 100-130 and it only gets 10-30 percent

[@Argentbuilds]

How did you install it like steam app or windows? And what card are you using.

[@DezR6]

Could you do a video on how to create fan curves with x1

[@ThisOLmaan]

The PC Pit: yes sometimes when i save like every then my GPU fans stop running so I have to check every time if they're spinning? so I have to open Precision again to get it going, I have an EVGA 2070 super 2 fan, and its great but its been so long I paid any attention to OC and OC my GPU which I have never done but why buy a card like mine if I don't utilize it yes? and I do like ur vids I'm a subber to ur Ch. but I need help like a handheld walk along cuz I really want to OC my PC and GPU , well TY Pit hopefully can Link me a guide to ur OC videos.

[@Argentbuilds]

It really depends on how far you want to push the card. You shouldn't worry about fan stop unless its happening under load. If your just on the desktop and they stop they are all designed to do that now. I think it is far easier for a beginner to learn how to overclock using MSI afterburner or the Asus tool (doesn't matter what GPU you have) because they give you better values or its easier to understand. The first thing you want to do is max out your power limit and thermal limit. And save that profile. From there the easiest way to do it is increase the GPU clock by 25 and run like 3D mark time spy or play a game and make sure its stable and then do that until your stable anymore and the PC crashes. Once it crash you want to walk the GPU clock back to where its stable again. At this point you've maxed out or found a very high GPU clock thats stable(won't be the same as others every card is unique even the exact same model/brand will have different stability settings) from that stability you can start doing the same to the memory clocks until it starts crashing again. Once it starts crashing you either walk the memory overclock back until its stable and call it a day or you walk back your gpu clock a little and it'll become stable and you can try getting both to a happy medium. Its 100% trail and error. Next GPU we get i think we're going to do a overclocking live stream sometime end of February early March. I hope this helped!

[@MisfitMarauder]

Hey sir, is it better to use the precision x1 overclocking method or the geforce experience easy overclock method instead in today’s time? To me they both seem like great methods but it looks like the geforce experience ez clock adjusts the overclocking to what your specific card can handle...im very indecisive haha

[@Argentbuilds]

The geforce one will put it to the reccomended settings the xc1 will let you push it to its full potential

[@MisfitMarauder]

@@Argentbuilds i took your advice and i gotta say, running it at full potential is pretty cleaaaaan :o thank you!

[@garymonson2724]

I have been using EVGA software for a while but can not remember how to keep the fan settings from resetting all the time any help would be appreciated

[@Argentbuilds]

Let me do some checking tomorrow and I will get back to you

[@thepirategamerboy12]

@@Argentbuilds Looks like you didn't get back to him. lol

[@erikramirez3767]

Hey man, nice video! Have a question... I`ve been playing apex at 83 temp at default x1 precision settings, what do i need to move, to get lower temperatures?

[@Argentbuilds]

What is you card?

[@erikramirez3767]

@@Argentbuilds Its an evga 1660 ti sc ultra gaming

[@anothertallbruv8665]

Up your fans man

[@ramranchcowboy8857]

Can i use this to my gtx 550 ti??

[@MrMRGamer1010]

Solid

[@Argentbuilds]

Thanks for watching

[@zxnkairo]

can you please do an undervolt tutorial?

[@Argentbuilds]

Working on it now thanks for the idea!

[@zxnkairo]

@@Argentbuilds thanks

[@horseality6250]

So what about Voltage and Memory clock?

[@Argentbuilds]

Voltage really depends on the card, some cards perform better undervolted. With memory it is much like the gpu but they work together. So moving the sliders together to get the most stable OC

[@horseality6250]

@@Argentbuilds Okay so try and error :) While overclocking a cpu you have to be carfeul playing with the voltage.. is there a ,,too much" or is the software blocking at the max?

[@ranafaisal1172]

I can’t change the temperature and power , it’s set to zero

[@Argentbuilds]

What card are you running

[@ranafaisal1172]

@@Argentbuilds nvidia 920m

[@l3loodyfingers]

I hope you can answer my question. On alot of my games, my 3060 will turn on and off the fans. I don't like that. So i downloaded evga precision x1 to control the fans. I want my fan speed to still adjust automatically to the temperature as needed, but i do not want the fans to turn off while the PC is powered on. I think this precision x1 will lock my fan speed to 33 percent but will stay at that percentage while the gpu is under stress and getting hotter. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

[@Argentbuilds]

Are you talking about when it does the fan stop when your ideling?

[@l3loodyfingers]

@@Argentbuilds no. While im playing a game

[@Supaji]

@@l3loodyfingers make a fan curve bruh

[@l3loodyfingers]

@@Supaji whats that, how

[@justtrizzy1197]

I have an evga rtx 3070, any simple overclocks I could do I mainly play cod and many open world games.

[@Argentbuilds]

Its really just a trail and error thing. Max out power limit and thermals limit. Then move you GPU clock to around +50 or so and see how stable you are. +50 should be stable with an EVGA card.

[@Foaks.]

i wish get on 2080 lol :( i have a gtx 760... Btw I want to use OSD but i dont know how to use it ( on evga precision x1)

[@Argentbuilds]

Yeah the OSD through that application is very hit and miss. It works on some games not on others and im not sure exactly why. I really wanted to use it for a long time and researched it and never could get it figured out so i gave up lol

[@Foaks.]

​@@Argentbuilds Do you know another app with OSD ?

[@Vol3Original]

i have a 1070Ti FTW2 and im very stupid anyway you can help me overclock i mostly play COD

[@Argentbuilds]

For the most part you want to 1. Max out the power limit. 2. Move the gpu clock to the right in small increments. 3. Test to see if its stable. 4. Move the memory clock to the right in small increments. 5. Test if its stable. Thats pretty much the jist of it, alot of trial and error to see what your card is stable at.

[@Vol3Original]

@@Argentbuilds im just scared because if I fry it I can't afford a new one

[@Argentbuilds]

You cant fry your graphics card using one of those programs normally. What will happen is if the cards not stable the computer will crash and reboot with stock settings. Your only going to kill your card by either cooling it improperly or by using to much voltage.

[@afti03]

@@Argentbuilds short and effective, thanks!

[@shawncheecham9725]

How do you get your PX1 to show wattage?

[@Argentbuilds]

I believe it only shows wattage if you have an EVGA GPU

[@shawncheecham9725]

@@Argentbuilds I have a 3000 series evga gpu, aand have not seen that pop up, anything in the settings?

[@Argentbuilds]

@@shawncheecham9725 let me pop my ftw3 in the test bench and I'll find out quick

[@onegameplayplus9670]

And for gigabyte card?

[@Argentbuilds]

Works the exact same. For the GIGABYTE card you can more than likely max everything out on the overclock.

[@onegameplayplus9670]

@@Argentbuilds what program i can use? Msi, evga, aorus

[@Argentbuilds]

You can use any program you want. Asus GPU Tweak 2 is the most user friendly. Everything on it is simplified and makes all the numbers line up.

[@luvcbass]

This is a shot in the dark and quite possibly the weirdest thing I’ve ever done,I have a gtx 650 and it looks like you know your stuff and have Atleast a better card lying around could I maybe contact you? I don’t have money I’m 16 and would like to game a tad more than I already can

[@Argentbuilds]

We really don't have anything laying around, for the most part we get a card, or motherboard, make as much content with it as we can and then put them on eBay, to help fund the channel.

[@esebocho4140]

I neeed help over clocking I’ll pay

[@Argentbuilds]

What are you trying to overclock?

[@esebocho4140]

@@Argentbuilds cpu and gpu

[@jokehuang1611]

2:22 skip rubbish.