GPU overclocking for FPS
Also searched as: overclock gpu · gpu oc · afterburner overclock · core clock · memory clock
What it does
Pushing your graphics card's core and memory clocks past stock with a tool like MSI Afterburner.
The honest verdict
Graded risky. The gains are real but small — a stable overclock typically buys a few percent — and the cost of overshooting is weeks of 'random' crashes that look like driver bugs, game bugs, anything but the slider you moved last month. If you go in, go like a tester: one small step at a time, a stress run and a measured before/after per step, and write down what you changed so you can walk it back. …
It's on Compy's refuse list. Compy will never apply this tweak — and if a guide already talked you into it, reversibility is the whole point of the app.
The full graded entry
The rest of this write-up — the specifics behind the grade — ships inside the app. The Blackbook publishes its verdicts here — the full write-ups stay in the book, on your rig, next to your own measurements.
The Compy Blackbook holds 191 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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