If not, then do something about your thermals. If the average is below 75 degrees, you’re good to go. Firstly enable temperature and core clock monitoring and fire up your test game to see how the temps are holding up prior to the overclock.It can be the thermal limit, the power limit, the voltage, or simply your silicon lot in life. Limiting factor (PerfCap-NVIDIA only): This is the reason why you can’t push your clocks past a specific limit.Memory Clock offset: This is the figure by which you’ll be overclocking your GPU memory.Core Clock offset: This is the figure by which you’ll be overclocking your GPU core.Usually, when the GPU temps cross 75 degrees, or the TDP goes above the set limit, your GPU clocks will start throttling. Throttling: This is the gradual decrease in the in-game core clocks that is a safety measure put in place by the OEMs to keep you from frying your GPU.

This is the point when there’ll be a substantial drop in the core clocks to keep the temperatures in check. The temperature limit is the same, except, the GPU will start throttling as soon as you hit 75+ degrees. Power and Temperature Limit: The power limit is the maximum power your GPU will draw while operating at peak frequencies without throttling the clocks.Although back in the days of Fermi this was a risky parameter, now, courtesy of GPU Boost, there are too many safeguards in place, so you need not worry.

Core Voltage: This is the additional voltage you’ll be feeding your GPU to extend the overclocking headroom.

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