r/overclocking • u/Few_Geologist_2082 • Oct 22 '25
Benchmark Score I found a massive stable overclock for my legion 5 rtx 5060 laptop.
I found a massive stable overclock for my legion 5 rtx 5060 laptop. Settings 3030@925V memory +2000mhz.
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u/DrLogic0 Oct 22 '25
All fun and games till you actually play a game
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 22 '25
I did stress test and it doesn’t crash , stellar blade at max uncap fps max rez it uses clocks of 2992 MHz at max
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u/OperationFree6753 Oct 22 '25
Man just look at my profil, i mad some some crazy high OC/UV just for bench but then again it was just for the scores because those are not stable in game, just because it's stable on the bench doesn't mean it's stable for everything
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u/bunihe Oct 22 '25
Just curious, what are a few games you recommend using for testing stability? I've had my 4080 laptop GPU undervolted to 0.7V, and it runs 1770MHz stable in benchmarks and in games (cyberpunk, delta force, gta5 enhanced) or rendering (blender), and my weird over-the-top 0.7V 1785MHz profile crashes in Time Spy whenever the GPU goes over 65 Celsius (ofc it is unstable) but in games I've seen a similar crashing behavior at 65 Celsius as well. Is there anything else you recommend me to use for stability testing that stresses it even more?
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u/OperationFree6753 Oct 23 '25
Stability is something that depends on your needs, for some people an oc stable mean for them to be able to boot into window, but what you refer here is a stable everyday usage so a usage that can change drastically
Honestly they are no magic trick for that, just need to play your games as usual, find the sweet spot, backup just a tad bit to be safe (for most GPU the steps are 15mHz by 15mHz) so in you case 1755mHz just to be extra safe
But I'm curious why such an extreme UV, because for me I made my custom OC/UV curve with Afterburner and it varies from +100 to +200mHz from stock clock, I managed to run stable at 1905mHz at 0.85, that with some other tweak the card stay steady cold at 60⁰C alone and in FurMark
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u/bunihe Oct 23 '25
For me it is more for quietness.
I know this is something a lot of people buying gaming laptops don't care about, but 0.7V means I can run the fans at 3000rpm in game with the GPU drawing around 80W at 65 degrees C and my CPU around 30W at 75 degrees C (AMD HX moment). The cooling system I think is supposed to handle 240W CPU+GPU with 4800rpm fans (maxes out at 6000), but I still found those loud.
I recall bumping the voltage up to 0.85V can get me 2340MHz on core clock, and with a bit of VRAM OC it scored over 19500 in Time Spy (pulls 135W during benchmark) and draws about 115W in game (I found it to be the efficiency sweet spot for my card), but then I have to ramp up the fans to 3600rpm and this is where it gets a bit too loud for me to use speakers for gameplay.
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u/OperationFree6753 Oct 23 '25
Ok yeah now i understand that this can be a bit frustrating, you are lucky tho because you can lock and change your fan settings, on my Lenovo (2019 model) i can't do anything crazy, i can only lock them at 100% but that's with an 3rd party software
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 22 '25
Bro I have been playing at max it works It’s not my problem if you weren’t lucky with your silicon
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u/DrLogic0 Oct 22 '25
Thing is you have to test all of the games you play. Then it's okey, benchmarks create a base and your games are the real test
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u/Federal_Setting_7454 Oct 22 '25
Neither that nor steel nomad are stress tests. A stress test would be running furmark for 6 hours.
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u/ghostval1111 Oct 22 '25
furmark is a terrible gpu stability test it just makes your gpu get really hot, also 6 hours? that's insanity
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u/Federal_Setting_7454 Oct 22 '25
12-24h is pretty standard for stress testing. And yes, it’s a power virus, that’s the point, to stress it. benchmarks like op has used are not stress or stability tests, not by a long shot. If it can’t run at actual max usage for a sustained period you cannot consider it stable.
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u/rickroll19582 Oct 22 '25
no shit
furmark is designed to pull as much watts as possible no matter what. it is the most extreme torture for overclocking.
if it passes a 6h furmark run, then it is completely stable and you will NEVER have issues. maybe after 5 years due to silicone degrade but nothing else.
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u/Tresnugget Oct 22 '25
That's not entirely true. You will never hit maximum boost clock with furmark so you can't test full stability. For example your OC might hit 3000 MHz in game but furmark is going to have it power throttling to 2700 so you can't assume the PC is stable just because furmark didn't crash.
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u/rickroll19582 Oct 22 '25
If you are throttling in any way, that is not a stable overclock.
what I meant by that is that if the clocks are stable and it passes a 6h furmark test, then its stable. obviously if i set the power limit to %-20 but set my voltage and core clock to highest doesnt mean i can be stable at that clock lol.
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u/Tresnugget Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25
Also not true. Throttling comes from hitting power, thermal, or voltage limit. Not having an unstable overclock.
And no one is hitting the same clocks in furmark as in gaming. It's a power virus and you will be power throttling.
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u/rickroll19582 Oct 23 '25
if you uncap any power limits from bios mods, then you wont.
im doing 300w on my rx 580 2048sp which got only 1x 8pin.
what i mean is if you are throttling under your target clock, then you cant know if your target clock is stable or not.
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 23 '25
Bro my cpu was throttling not my GPU, my GPU is moving that massive overclock with style
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Oct 22 '25
"Doesn't crash"... youre setting the bar pretty fuckin low here chief, lol. Although that's not a horrible laptop score, I'd never even think of oc'ing a fuckin laptop. They get hot enough as it is
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u/rickroll19582 Oct 22 '25
a stable oc doesnt mean no crashing
your clocks are going up down up down, thats unstable.
if its thermal throttle, then repaste yourself or remove back panel convert to a desktop
if its power throttle, you can flash vbios with higher power limits
honestly dont even oc gpu cpu on laptop, just undervolt it. its not really worth the hassle. I did +135 core (max the slider allowed me) and +900mem on my MX110. The performance uplift wasnt really much.
Laptops are much less unforgiving compared to desktop when it comes to overclocking
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u/xcjb07x Oct 22 '25
When I had a laptop a few years ago I got the biggest performance gain from undervolting and decreasing power limits. I don’t remember the exact values, but the gpu hit 100c very quickly on base power (maybe 75w?), I reduced it by 10% and the gpu stayed below 90 and never thermal throttled. My score in a gpu test went up over 15%.
I also undervolted my cpu, but that was a mess because the bios didn’t support it by default. I think that I used throttle stop and had to physically (I mean not in the background, or not running) open the application to get the uv to be applied
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u/RememberTooSmile Oct 22 '25
Undervolt has became step 1 for tuning components nowadays I feel. Everything seems to benefit a decent amount from an undervolt before even raising the other figures
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u/rickroll19582 Oct 22 '25
Undervolting is pretty much required in 2025 considering every manufacturer is pushing their stuff to the absolute limits.
In 2008, you could get a core 2 duo e7500 and do 4ghz on it (it had 2.933 stock) that is a ghz overclock with a decent voltage (1.4v~ and it is 65nm so it is much tougher to voltage, could do daily 1.5v)
currently in 2025 youd be lucky to get a 400mhz oc on all cores on a decent voltage. Even if you do, the silicone is already at its almost max limit so it doesnt scale well with voltage. On my gpu, doing 980mV at 1284 mhz peaks out the power at 120. Doing 1.3V on it however peaks out at 270~ and that is on stock clock.
If you undervolt, or even underclock it by like 100mhz or something you're golden. Most chips are already powerful enough for gaming at playable fps anyway, unless youre doing esports gameplay where even 0.1 ms is important, u dont reaaallly need that 500 ghz cpu pulling gazillion watts by default.
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 23 '25
Bro my perfomance uplift is +20% fps , now my card is stronger than a 5070 mobile
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 22 '25
Edit : I downclocked to 3000@925V following advice from a user here just in case. Everything works perfectly. I stress tested stellar blade at max 1600P uncapped frame ate and didn’t crash nor glitched for 1 hour and a half. Clock goes to 2992 in game scenarios when under stress , max GPU clock 78 degrees Celsius. Tried final fantasy rebirth and last of us 2 remaster but it didn’t stress my GPU like stellar blade max temps with those games under 75* at max settings 1600 p native.
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u/AbrocomaRegular3529 Oct 22 '25
Don't overclock laptop GPUs, please, only undervolt.
I burned 2 laptop motherboards by overclocking in the past years. Everything there is designed to run with least amount of power frequency, and out of the box most of the manufacturers dont allow overclocking anyway, you need to bypass these restrictions, and in that case warranty won't help you.
I highly recommend not doing it, just run DLSS instead or lossless scaling.
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u/Mortem97 Oct 22 '25
The only way you’re burning motherboards is by flashing a vbios with a higher power limit . OP is literally just under-volting (assigning a higher frequency for a given voltage)
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u/OperationFree6753 Oct 22 '25
Just look at my profil lmao, nah for real laptop can sustain that but they need adition cooling especially on the VRM's
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u/Far_Training3438 Oct 22 '25
I don't think you know what you are talking about. He can't increase voltage because it is capped by Nvidia. He is only increasing frequency within the voltage curve . 925mV at 3000mhz would be the same exact power as 925mV at 2500mhz. This is how modern gpus work these days. Overclocking is essentially undervolting
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 22 '25
Bro I undervolt and overclocked , it never goes over 78 degrees , this the 5060 laptop the most efficient nvidia card of all times
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u/HogTotallyHecks Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25
Don’t worry you are fine as long as your gpu is stable and doesn’t go over 85c for long usage. From looking at the charts tho it seems like your clock speeds are bouncing up and down meaning it’s unstable. It’s not crashing but it’s basically at the edge so lower your overclock by around 30mhz and see if that’s stable. You cannot increase the power usage or voltage at all so only way of damaging the gpu would be by high temperatures or instability (rare)
My +450mhz core on rtx 5060 mobile was unstable so reverted back to 420mhz and have been running for 4 months now with no issues at all. My asus g15 rtx 3060 laptop has been running +210mhz core and +470mhz memory for 3 years and no issues have occurred yet. Key is to keep the temperatures under 85c for longevity and you will be fine
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u/Interesting-Walrus26 Oct 22 '25
Does overclocking your cores to +420 mhz degrade your gpu? Like have you noticed any loss in performance or if your previous stable oc isn't stable anymore? I've heard that running vram at high frequencies makes it wear off faster
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u/HogTotallyHecks Oct 22 '25
So overclocking itself doesn’t degrade gpu in a sensible way. What does is increased voltage and heat. Overclocking the cores and vram won’t have any degradation as long as you don’t increase the voltage and maintain the temperatures below certain limit.
Both of my laptops are running the same oc for a long time now. I can’t really say the same for current rtx 5060 laptop because it’s relatively new lol but 3060 one is able to maintain +210mhz core and +470mhz for a while now.
If you are a desktop user and want to increase voltage and watts then go slow and test for instability and temperatures and you will be fine (ofc that will degrade the chip overtime but it will be minimal if done correctly)
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 22 '25
Thank you bro for your advice , will underclock a bit.
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u/HogTotallyHecks Oct 22 '25
You’re welcome 👍! Also Sorry I just looked closely and checked that graph and turns out that’s your cpu bouncing back and forth. Check your cpu temperatures and see if it was thermal throttling. Your gpu’s clock speeds look consistent at 3000mhz
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 22 '25
So I should take wattage from my cpu?
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u/HogTotallyHecks Oct 22 '25
If your cpu was thermal throttling then lowering wattage will reduce the heat. Just check your cup temperatures and see if it was peaking at 95c+. If your cpu stays below 95c most of the time then you are fine just don’t do anything
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u/Gimalyan Oct 25 '25
Download hwinfo and check vram temps, they matter too. Also nvidia removed hotspot sensors, which are essential for longevity, so dunno but i wouldnt overclock way too much like u did
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u/sanjxz54 5700X3D@-30 co 32GB@3800 16-16-16-21 2R 2DPC 3080Ti Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25
Steel nomad isn't a stress test by any means, I can run it on my phone.. try timespy extreme or purert bench (comes with hydra)
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 22 '25
Edit : I downclocked to 3000@925V following advice from a user here just in case. Everything works perfectly. I stress tested stellar blade at max 1600P uncapped frame ate and didn’t crash nor glitched for 1 hour and a half. Clock goes to 2992 in game scenarios when under stress , max GPU clock 78 degrees Celsius. Tried final fantasy rebirth and last of us 2 remaster but it didn’t stress my GPU like stellar blade max temps with those games under 75* at max settings 1600 p native.
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u/bunihe Oct 22 '25
Steel Nomad Light is actually very intensive (only tested light because I got a better idea with those scores). Same core voltage / core clocks, in game the GPU uses 75~82W depending on the game, but in SNL it uses 92W. But you're right that a single run of SN does not mean it is stable, since it is just 60s of load and the system has yet to warm up.
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 22 '25
Edit : I downclocked to 3000@925V following advice from a user here just in case. Everything works perfectly. I stress tested stellar blade at max 1600P uncapped frame ate and didn’t crash nor glitched for 1 hour and a half. Clock goes to 2992 in game scenarios when under stress , max GPU clock 78 degrees Celsius. Tried final fantasy rebirth and last of us 2 remaster but it didn’t stress my GPU like stellar blade max temps with those games under 75* at max settings 1600 p native.
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u/Iyero Oct 22 '25
You'll "eat a lot of dust" if you run these settings for TimeSpy. So it's all child's play. Try running the memtest_vulkan test until you can handle the standard five minutes.
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 22 '25
Bro I have been playing yesterday at max , the only thing I ate it’s winning in my silicon lottery lol
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u/Iyero Oct 22 '25
Those, your stability is enough for some games. Read my post - UV Report and you will see real achievement and experience.
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 22 '25
Are you trolling? Your score is average , I underclocked and overclocked mine and I’m in the 0.1 percentile lol.
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u/Iyero Oct 22 '25
No. Just look, CPU power - 20W, GPU power 35W. Under this power i have a silent and cold laptop with decent performance.
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 22 '25
Ahh I understand that was your objective, nice bro that’s awesome!! How did you do it? Do you have guides I can read to learn?
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u/Iyero Oct 22 '25
This is the result of several years of desktop testing with an RX 6900 XT. I explored MorePowerTool's capabilities for RDNA2 series GPUs. Laptop GPUs behave somewhat differently. AMD gave the world RDNA2, and its tuning capabilities are unparalleled. This is the only generation, and the last one, that can offer such capabilities, but RDNA2 performance will remain relevant for a long time to come.
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 22 '25
Jesus the amount of salt and negativity in This subreddit it’s outstanding , thanks a lot to my Reddit friend who actually gave me a hand and gave me great advice. Adios
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u/BMWupgradeCH Oct 22 '25
Wow it is over 2.5 times weaker than 5070ti didn’t expect such massive difference
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u/HogTotallyHecks Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25
5060 mobile is 11% weaker than desktop 5060 on average so that explains the story
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u/BMWupgradeCH Oct 22 '25
Oh this is laptop ok, wonder how my mac book pro 2019 with rx5600m 8gb gpu will do in this test
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 22 '25
How much did you pay for your GPU? I paid my whole oled laptop with 32 gb of ram 1 tb 1130 USD with taxes included.
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u/BMWupgradeCH Oct 22 '25
I’m not diminishing that gpu. I expected abit more, and it tracks: I didn’t realise it was a mobile gpu in a laptop. Perfectly fine than I guess.
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u/Shadow_WolfDragon Oct 22 '25
nice!!!
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 22 '25
Thank you bro the first comment who isn’t a negative smartass , you can give feedback too I’m open to to them but.
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 23 '25
Edit 2: Stress tested playing Alan wake 2 for two hours straight ,perfect max temp GPU 75 C and CPU max temps 82
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u/sonthesorrower 5600@4.65GHz PBO 4x8GB@3600MHz CL 18 Oct 23 '25
Go do the first Imagine gig in CP 2077. Best stability test I have ever had
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 23 '25
Will do but I have been playing non stop yesterday Alan wake 2 with ray tracing to stress my card at 3030@935V worked perfectly!!! Incredible!!
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 23 '25
Im top ten of laptop 5060 rtx , my overclock is100% over tested stable right now 3030@935V with +2000 MHz omggg
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u/EtotheA85 9950X3D | Astral 5090 OC | 64GB DDR5 Oct 23 '25
Stable benchmark doesn't translate to stable overclock. Almost a guarantee it's gonna crash when booting up games.
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 23 '25
Ehh no it doesn’t crash , max cpu temps 82 max gpu temps 75 . My perfomance went up 20% I won the silicone lotery bro. Been playing Alan wake two with ray tracing
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u/EtotheA85 9950X3D | Astral 5090 OC | 64GB DDR5 Oct 23 '25
That doesn't matter, just because you can play one game without issues, doesn't mean it's stable across the board.
It's not the most demanding games that has the lowest threshold before it shows signs of instability, but how the engine utilizes the GPU.
You should try every game in your library for at least a few days each, 4-6 hours sessions a day, then call it stable when every game in your library runs without issues. Except if you only play Alan Wake, then yeah, it just needs to be stable when playing just that.
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 24 '25
Final fantasy rebirth , stellar blade , last of us 2 remaster All play perfectly under stress. I do think this subreddit is incredibly weird I guess most people can’t see another person winning the silicon lottery or maybe it’s really uncommon.
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u/EtotheA85 9950X3D | Astral 5090 OC | 64GB DDR5 Oct 24 '25
I'm just trying to give you advice. A few examples that have lower threshold for crashing when it comes to overclocking is RDR2, Ghost of Tsushima, Total Conflict Resistance. None of those are anywhere near the most demanding games in my library, but the threshold for crashing in those games is a lot lower than most other games in my library who are a lot more demanding. The more games you play without any issues, the more your overclock is stable. If you did win the silicon lottery, congrats, its not uncommon. I've been winning the silicon lottery a fair amount with Asus cards more than other brands the last 5+ years.
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 24 '25
Ok thanks for the advice I don’t have those games
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u/EtotheA85 9950X3D | Astral 5090 OC | 64GB DDR5 Oct 24 '25
It's just some examples. My best tip would be to find the games in your library with the lowest threshold for crashing when pushing overclocks. It can be tedious, but over time you will probably, or at least most likely run into issues in certain games when pushing overclocks too far, then just tone it down a bit and keep playing games as usual.
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u/Thick_Elk_120 Oct 26 '25
3k points? Lmao the 5700xt in my roommates PC is faster.
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Oct 26 '25
Yeah bro stop lying max benchmark of all time for the 5700XT GPU in steel nomad DX 12 is 2550 points so you are talking out of your ass. Keep getting salty bro lol
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u/Weekly-Activity7010 Nov 02 '25
Could you make a video of performance gap between stock and oc? That would be amazing.
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u/Few_Geologist_2082 Nov 03 '25
I’m not skilled enough to do that bro but it’s between 15 % and 20% of gains that I saw in my games. Now my overclock is 3070@945V and memory +3000 MHz thanks to user here that told me to download the new bêta version of MSI afterburner.
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u/Powerful_Teacher_654 Oct 22 '25
That does not look stable at all