The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/The_Zilverback on 2024-05-28 08:44:22.

First off, I don’t know sh*t about computers. So I have a RTX 2070 SUPER around five years old and it’s run like a champ for a while, but I started getting visual artifacts while gaming this year. I didn’t really care since it didn’t effect the experience much on the game I mostly played, but it started to annoy me when I tried to play other games. Notably, while running War Thunder on minimum graphics meant for grandma’s computer from 2005, it still was causing visual glitches and a lot of artifacts despite getting 350+ FPS and GPU temperature around 50 C. I’ve never overclocked or messed with any settings regarding the GPU so while in my search for answers I saw recommendations to underclock the memory to rule in or out some issues. Underclocking the memory did absolutely nothing, but I then tried underclocking the core clock and it brought a surprise. By adjusting the core clock to -50 in MSI Afterburner, I had dramatically reduced artifacts in my game. Furthering this to -100 completely removed the artifacts apart from a stray line every so often. Finally dropping it to -150 has eliminated any artifacts whatsoever. Just to be safe, I also set the memory clock to -150. Now from what limited information I’ve seen, this is not a very common issue. So does anyone much more knowledgeable than me have any insight into this situation. Is my GPU done for or is this a symptom of something else? Is this a safe solution and will this effect anything? Thanks for the help!

ARTIFACTS BEFORE DOWNCLOCK