What psu do you have, and how old is it?

Sounds like you just got a junk card imo.

Which i cant help but wonder, can i even RMA a card because it wont overclock?
 
Voltage 100%
Power target 120%
GPU offset +20
Fails...
 
Voltage 100% 
Power target 100%
GPU offset +20
Fails...
 
Voltage 70%
Power target 100%
GPU offset +20
Fails...
 
Voltage 70% 
Power target 70%
GPU offset +20
Fails...
 
All of which i still notice volts peak at 1.093 at times and hover around 1.080

Well i did solve one piece of the puzzle, after doing other testing its pretty apparent that 3D Mark wont run with XOC or MSI running....which is completely absurd considering its a benchmark tool and those have to be running to do any overclocking. That being said i started from scratch again with Heaven and i am back up to +30 on the gpu and +1000 on the memory. Anything past that is just completely unstable.
 
Not exactly a spicy overclock but i gained an average of 10fps so i wont complain.....to much lol.
 
Final result 2035/6005

HeavyHemi

Aaron.Dieringer
Well i did solve one piece of the puzzle, after doing other testing its pretty apparent that 3D Mark wont run with XOC or MSI running....which is completely absurd considering its a benchmark tool and those have to be running to do any overclocking. That being said i started from scratch again with Heaven and i am back up to +30 on the gpu and +1000 on the memory. Anything past that is just completely unstable.
 
Not exactly a spicy overclock but i gained an average of 10fps so i wont complain.....to much lol.
 
Final result 2035/6005

It's pretty apparent you have an issue with your system if using MSI is crashing your system. I mean, you'd think that would be a massive issue for everyone right?  I'm not trying to be snarky, just point out that, your system should run fine running those tools.  Do you realize that +1000 on the memory clock is actually 2ghz effective increase? Ya might consider toning that down to say +500 (or 1000mhz effective) then see where your core clock is when overclocking. Generally speaking, more is gained from higher core versus higher memory clocks.

 
Well im not using MSI, just strictly XOC. But after i determined that 3D mark was only crashing when XOC was on i dug through google and there is countless forums of both MSI and XOC users reporting that 3D mark will not run with those overlays. Its not actually crashing my system, it is running fine. But 3D mark will report an error everytime i run a benchmark with XOC in the background. Wish i could find a way to run it stand alone vs a steam overlay. 
 
And as far as the clocking goes i can only get +30 out of the core, with or without memory bumped up. I found my max core before even touching the memory but it just so happens i can max it out and still be stable. I gained an average of 5fps when going from +500 to +1000 on the memory so as long as its stable why not.
 
But honestly at 2035 on the core thats probably all im really going to get out of an aircooled card. Dont really feel like moving the CPU radiator and dont really feel the need to add a second radiator just to increase the core clock on the gpu a little more. Overall after the OC i gained about a 10FPS average so that should give me the little VR boost i was looking for. My main concern was that the card wasnt overclocking at all, but once i determined the XOC overlay and 3D mark were my issue i did my testing using heaven and i feel a 2035 core is about on par to where it should be until i can get my temps on the GPU down.