Radeon 7950 Max safe overclock ?

[brandon888]

.95 at idle. With +20% your probably going up in voltage under load. Doesn't really matter though because your doing 1100mhz at an insanely low temp of 57.

What are you using to benchmark?

waht is the best tool to check it ? furmark ? OCCT ? or what ?

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Any game will load it, furmark will max the voltage and power until thermal comes in and throttles.

 

[PliotronX]

Do not run Furmark. It will cumulatively kill your GPU particularly with extra voltage. It runs loads far above any typical game IOW needlessly stresses it out. Heaven benchmark is a decently stressful looping bench that represents a real game's stresses.

 

[Fastx]

Do not run Furmark. It will cumulatively kill your GPU particularly with extra voltage. It runs loads far above any typical game IOW needlessly stresses it out. Heaven benchmark is a decently stressful looping bench that represents a real game's stresses.

+1 imo, That is exactly how I do it just check though Heaven (couple UH 4.0 Extreme BM's) BM's first then start gaming to check.
No Furmark or OCCT for me, no need for that heat on my GPU from those imo of course.

 

[blastingcap]

Some chips are more golden than others, I prefer OCCT to make sure errors are low or nonexistent. Many people are ok with it but I'm not... too many times I dealt with hard locks or got kicked out of a game with unstable oc's.