
I recently built my first PC and was hesitant to overclock because I didn’t want to break anything and didn’t think it would make much difference. My goal for this post is to convince a beginner PC builder (like myself) to try overclocking their graphics card and give the most basic steps to do so.
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If you have any other questions let me know! Sometimes it might not OC at all, other times to 2.6 or 2.8 (depending on a variety of factors like heat, power usage, battery life, etc). If you can play games like that then its probably fine (its not really necessary).Īlso, the CPU is at 2.8GHz because of Intel Turbo Boost Technology which will basically OC the CPU on its own up to 3.0GHz for this CPU model.
What you're doing now is adding 135mhz to the GPU's core clock and 600mhz to its memory clock.
In fact, you're not overclocking the CPU, but rather the Graphics Card (GPU). The first being MSI Afterburner doesn't overclock the CPU. This is an interesting question for a number of reasons.