GTX 680 overclock causing BF3 crashes

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While overclocking my GTX 680, I pushed it to 1250mhz on the core using GPU Tweak. I tested it in furmark, and, getting no artifacts, decided to test it in BF3. After a few minutes of gameplay, I got a DX11 error and the game crashed. At first I thought it might be due to the new 310.33 drivers or my FXAA injector, but after ruling those out, I figured out it was caused by the overclock. I found the highest stable clock to be 1230mhz on the core. I was just wondering if anyone knew how I might fix this, since BF3 seems to be only thing affected by the higher clock and I've heard of 680's going higher. It's not overheating (never tops 55) and I'm not increasing the power target, the voltage, or the memory clock. Not sure if doing any of these things would help, I'm new to overclocking.

My rig:
CPU: i5 3570K (stock clocks)
GPU: GTX 680
Motherboard: ASUS Maximus V Gene
PSU: Antec HCG-900 (900w)
RAM: 8GB G.Skill Sniper (2x4GB, @2133mhz)

[Menthol]

Hash,
I don't now what is causing the error,my guess is DX11 update, maybe try a different driver, but if you are increasing the core clock without increasing the power target could be the problem. Overclocking Nvidia Keepler and power target go hand in hand. Myself I only overclock for some benchmarks, gaming is where the auto boost feature works well. if you increase the power target only the card will boost all by itself. Voltage at 100% is fine as Keeplers are capped at a safe voltage.
nomad,
GPUZ just cannot be reading the voltage correctly, unless you have a modded bios the card is capped at 1.175 to 1.212 volts. No software that I am aware of can read the voltage on Keepler correctly above 1.212, only a multimeter will read correctly. So yes it is safe at 100%. And again in my personnel experience any small gain to be had by overclocking Keepler cards for gaming just does not out weigh any stability issues. If you need more power for multi monitors or fps then a second card in sli is the better solution.

[nomadVP]

Menthol wrote:
Hash,
I don't now what is causing the error,my guess is DX11 update, maybe try a different driver, but if you are increasing the core clock without increasing the power target could be the problem. Overclocking Nvidia Keepler and power target go hand in hand. Myself I only overclock for some benchmarks, gaming is where the auto boost feature works well. if you increase the power target only the card will boost all by itself. Voltage at 100% is fine as Keeplers are capped at a safe voltage.
nomad,
GPUZ just cannot be reading the voltage correctly, unless you have a modded bios the card is capped at 1.175 to 1.212 volts. No software that I am aware of can read the voltage on Keepler correctly above 1.212, only a multimeter will read correctly. So yes it is safe at 100%. And again in my personnel experience any small gain to be had by overclocking Keepler cards for gaming just does not out weigh any stability issues. If you need more power for multi monitors or fps then a second card in sli is the better solution.

Thanks for making that clear 🙂 nah one card for now... im just going to wait till the next generations of cards to come out. i'm sure my GTX 680 will last till 2014 when maxwell comes out !
ill just max it at 100% voltage and try and play with the core speed and memory speeds, and ill keep an eye on that temp making sure it doesntreach over 80.

thanks again.