Do I have a faulty 7970M?

So was playing some Crysis 3 and wasn't really happy with the 30fps~ so I decided to overclock, don't usually overclock on this card because there is not a game that has needed it until now. So update to 13.2 B6, fire up afterburner add 50Mhz and screen goes whack
Wonder if its just 2D problem so fire up Crysis 3, I'm getting 34fps screen has stopped going whacky and all is fine, on windows and in games. After a few hours of gaming, shut the whole laptop down wake up tomorrow morning with the overclock set to activate when booting up, screen goes crazy again. Windows desktop is pretty much unusable, mouse hangs and everything is all mad. Do what I did yesterday, load the game up and solves the problem till it BSOD (probably due to the minor 50Mhz OC)

Done some testing to see if my card couldn't handle the 50mhz OC, in fact it cannot handle 1Mhz OC. Overclocking problem? - YouTube. So I cannot OC on my card, no big problem, but after I recorded the video this happened: What is wrong with my video card? - YouTube

Is my 7970M broken and should I call dell and go through the mission of getting it looked at or will they ignore me because I am trying to overclock orrr is there something I am doing vastly wrong that would be causing this?

This happens on both HDMI output as well as VGA as well as not having a second screen attached at all. The laptop is a two months old and the GPU hasn't went over 70C ever 'EVER'

Thanks, Joe

 

Trying reinstalling non beta drivers and see if the same still happens.

This could very well be caused by the Beta driver, you want to rule that out before anything else.

 

13.1 - still happens
even happens if I underclock
not touching the core Mhz, only the memory still causes it too

 

That's exactly how my screen looked shortly before my card died forever.

 

It could also just be that Crysis 3 is insanely hard to render. From what I understand, the Crysis 3 engine is very hardcore. So, you're probably not suffering anything that a GTX 570 owner wouldn't suffer. 30 FPS sounds about right.

 

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The 30fps is normal with the 7970m running everything maxed out, what the problem is, if I touch the Mhz of the card it all goes crazy until I load up a 3D fullscreen application

 

Hey Roughavoc,

Just checking that you have tried setting the OC setting in the afterburner CFG file ( MSIAfterburner.cfg) to 2 instead of 1. This has fixed screen issues like your experiencing for others and allowed for stable OCing. You can find the file in program files - msi afterburner where you installed the program location. Open the cfg file in wordpad or notepad and scroll to the bottom and add/edit the below lines.

[ATIADLHAL]
UnofficialOverclockingEULA = I confirm that I am aware of unofficial overclocking limitations and fully understand that MSI will not provide me any support on it
UnofficialOverclockingMode = 2

Also Joe, if you haven't tried setting the unofficialoverclocking mode to 1 yet, try that 1st. If your experiencing issues still then try setting it to 2. Also different driver versions can be quite annoying for overclocking experiences as some play nicer than other drivers when it comes to OC.

Also you may need to try and disable ULPS.

Cheers.

 

Anndddddd you're the best!!!!!
had UnofficialOverclockingEULA = (nothing) and UnofficialOverclockingMode = 1
Thank you so much, now if I get the problem I had in the second video (only happened that one time) guess I'm going to need to ask for more help

Only thing, my GPU now stays at the OC'ed speeds all the time whereas before it would dip to 300/450 when not used