The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/_Picsou on 2025-03-13 15:15:41.

My Zotac GTX1080ti crashes when it is not underclocked.

The crashes are fixed when i underclock my memory via MSI afterburner, core clock does not seem to be the cause. I also tried keeping stock clocks and lowering the power limit to 80%, the crashes keep happening.

When my games crash, it is visble in the resources manager as a GPU usage spike to 100% usage and then 0%. It is also visible by windows as a “hardware error livekernelevent”. I have already tried cleaning with DDU and installed the latest NVIDIA drivers.

I was wondering if maybe overvolting my memory chip would help stabilize my GPU ? I think of this like overclocking works on CPU (overvolting to keep up with overclocks)

Thank you for your help !

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I currently have a 600W PSU, GTX1080ti, 32GB DDR5 6000Mhz, Ryzen 7500F. The crashes were the same on my old I7 4790K with DDR3.