Hey all,

I've got a question. When trying to OC my card I'm running Valley and bumping up the settings little by little until I see artifacting in the benchmark and then dial it down.

My issue is I never see artifacts, no slow down or anything. The benchmark will run fine and then suddenly crash. I have not went through this process in a few years but even my laptop would show screen errors or pixels and artifacts, not just crash.

I've had quick crashes where the screen goes black and comes back up and I've had lock ups but I've had zero artifacts. None in Witcher 3, SoM, or Valley.

I'm wondering if the crashes are due to my error of 8gig system memory? More will be here today.

In Witcher 3, I can run 110mhz core and 500mhz memory fine/smooth for about 10-15 minutes and then crash. No artifacts, no nothing.

Much appreciated.

Vlada011
You have TITAN X with 8GB memory?  
People here talk about 32GB in combination with TITAN X, but I think even 16GB will be absolutely fine. 
 
Except that are you satisfied with TITAN X SC?
That's reference model, temps could be problem for more OC...
Even fabric clock is nice success for producer.
I would prepare backplate and ACX 2.0 for TITAN X at least, maybe google for some voltage mod after that.
Sometimes you will not see artifacts, or you will not notice them, they change fast sometimes, in corners, but black screen is common situation too. You will have warning in event viewer usually connected with NVIDIA display driver... That's crash... 

 
Hahahaha. Titan x with 8gb! Touche! My temps seem fine, even at 75% fan speed, I rarely go above 70 degrees celsius.

Ok. I am thinking 8gb of system memory is slowing my system down. I've seen videos and they all had 16gb. Hopefully the ups guy comes and I can download more rams today.

I kid about that last part.

Meric1837

Beasthunt
Ok. I am thinking 8gb of system memory is slowing my system down. I've seen videos and they all had 16gb. Hopefully the ups guy comes and I can download more rams today.

I kid about that last part.

I'm running a Titan X SC with 8GB of ram. No problems so far, although I did set my page file to 'system managed' just in case. Playing GTA5 I've only ever been able to hit 72c as max, so I think there's some overclocking room. Although the way my case is set up I've got a dedicated front fan blowing directly into the intake port of the Titan, so it's getting fresh room temperature air. That might be keeping the temps down, so make sure you've got a good airflow pattern. Remember: fan-side is intake, IO ports are exhaust.  

Solid advice. I have a corsair 780t full tower. 2 fans in, one out. I don't have a heat issue, tbh. Like you I rarely hit the 70s at fans 75%

I can seem to get a stable clock at

110 core
50 memory

That's running Shadow of Mordor benchmark. Puts me around

1440p full settings- 70fps
4k no fsaa- 51 fps

I'm not sure how those numbers stack up.