You can never tell, but the gains from OC/UC are not as big as to validate messing with that.
Especially when you are not a PC Tech., Software specialist or the likes.
Re-adjust your fan curves, Set Enhanced Sync. to On, cap your FPS to your monitor's VRF.
Re-adjust your filters, save this setting, no UC/OC. Frequency & Voltage should be on Auto.

Originally posted by Iron Knights:

You can never tell, but the gains from OC/UC are not as big as to validate messing with that.
Especially when you are not a PC Tech., Software specialist or the likes.
Re-adjust your fan curves, Set Enhanced Sync. to On, cap your FPS to your monitor's VRF.
Re-adjust your filters, save this setting, no UC/OC. Frequency & Voltage should be on Auto.

as far as i read on the internet, permanent gpu damage indicates by having;

- visual artifacts.
- system instability.
- driver crashes.
- performance degradtion.
- overheating.
- noise or coil whine.

from which i don't have any.

it runs as usual.

Then you lucked out this time. Don't do it again.
A good system is a stable system.
A stable system is a system running stock parameters.

Yeah, overclocking is pretty pointless. Just be glad you're one of the few that actually realize this. I've seen people ruin their computers, degrade their components, throttle their components, overheat, unstable, you name it.

Undervolting and Overclocking the GPU can not hurt it. Overvolting can.
Just reset it back to defaults and go from there. If needed, reboot the PC after resetting the GPU back to defaults. Then re-test.

Either leave the Voltage alone and OC the Core+Mem; or leave the Core+Mem alone and Undervolt it; don't do both.

If undervolting or overclocking is too much, why shouldn't it be normal for the system to crash?

Originally posted by A&A:

If undervolting or overclocking is too much, why shouldn't it be normal for the system to crash?

It might not be too much to crash the OS or Driver; but just enough instability to cause visual rendering issues; odd colored pixels in your OS and/or Games and such. That's the early warning sign to make some GPU related changes, either increase voltage slightly, or down-clock either Core or Mem; or both.

you should be fine. Im using the rx 6800xt and had a rx 5600xt and ive been playing around with a bunch of oc settings and crashes many time usually it goes back to default settings and I justt reoot my pc and its usually fine again

Originally posted by Odessa:

i just accidentally undervolted and overclocked my rx6600 and did a test by running cs2 but then my pc automatically restarted itself, booted back to windows and gave me the amd adrenalin software notification that all my amd adrenalin settings were resetted.

i have never had a system crash before and now i'm a little scared that i just caused my new gpu a permanent damage.

i read on the internet that system crashes due wrong gpu/cpu tunings usually don't cause permanent damage, esp. with newer hardware?

Seriously doubt it has damage. The purpose of an operating system crashing is to prevent damage in the first place.

Most modern hardware has additional safeguards that you must bypass to do any real damage (like modded BIOS).

But because hardware and software are unpredictable and bugs may exist, you will always be warned that you are operating at your own risk.

PCs are imperfect environments with many variables no one can predict. Because of that it's not a good idea to move outside of specs unless you can replace a part if it fails.

I also agree that overclocking is kind of pointless these days. Most GPUs are already overclocked out the box, and some will boost far higher than others on stock setting depending on driver and conditions they are at.

AMD GPUs will autoboost past their limits as long as its within power and heat specs without you ever having to overclock or risk voiding warranty. If it does not autoboost then its because it's pointless for the task or you have hit some other limit other than clock speed

Also here is an example from a game last year that was buggy that I patched up some issues in, Note that the GPU automatically boosted past its limits anyway because that is the default behavior in the drivers.

Jedi Survivor: warning spoilers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg9q2wgmQC0

Though it is a 6650XT, official boost is only 2635 Mhz on the card, but it autoboosts higher without any manual overclocking as long as it's possible. It actually boosted to 2999MHz at some points off the video, but this 6650XT was limited by power consumption (150W cap), Junction temperature, and VRAM. These three parameters will cut how much you gain from an OC anyway

Much like a CPU, there are parts of a GPU that don't really operate faster just because the clock speed is increased and you will also be hardcapped by the performance of those parts of the GPU.

TLDR: Let the driver do what is best and stay in warranty, even if there is little risk for damage you never know. Don't overclock what you cannot afford to lose.

The junction temperature on this card was at 115C -- past the absolute safe limit of the card and it was still not damaged.

Originally posted by Memes:

you should be fine. Im using the rx 6800xt and had a rx 5600xt and ive been playing around with a bunch of oc settings and crashes many time usually it goes back to default settings and I justt reoot my pc and its usually fine again

^ Yea this basically.

Whatever you use to OC with just do not set it up to apply OC at OS Startup. That way if it proves unstable you don't want that applied after a PC reboot/startup. Simply save stable settings to a Profile Preset so you can easily switch back to that when needed.

undervolting is ok
it wont damage itself from overheating

too low core voltage just make it less stable and run cooler

raising core clocks also makes it less stable

other than crash/bsod/reboot or whatever the hardware is fine, just windows may get messed up, for whatever files are being written when it crashes
chkdsk can fix alot, but some programs that need those files may not work properly (ie windows or boot files)