Posts by ambermarlin37

And honestly, Windows 7 is garbage. This machine I use for my web design work takes four minutes just to boot up Windows 7 Enterprise, then another five minutes before it’s actually ready to go. Spec: Intel Core 2 quad 2.8, 9500 GT, and 8GB RAM if I recall correctly. It feels like that typical "it's brand new, so you better have money or you're pathetic" kind of nonsense. Plus, it's pulling 1.5 GB of RAM while idling... unbelievable. 😁

Edward Peterson70 said:Which GPU are we talking about?

If I follow correctly, the PC froze and rebooted itself. Once you reached macOS, you uninstalled MSI Afterburner, and now the machine is freezing again?

The computer froze on its own, so I performed a hard reboot. When macOS loaded, it froze again, forcing another hard reboot. On the third attempt at loading macOS, I quickly deleted MSI Afterburner. Everything seems fine now; I ran a benchmark in 3DMark and there were no errors. Still, I am concerned because this is a new build—it’s only been a month.

Now my concern is whether those clock speeds caused permanent damage to the GPU.

I messed up my GPU settings. Can someone tell me if this caused permanent damage? I used MSI Afterburner to overclock it:

Clock speed: 700 MHz (stock) \ 1000 MHz (overclocked)
Shader Speed: 1750 MHz (stock) \ 2000 MHz (overclocked)
Memory: 800 MHz (stock) \ 1000 MHz (overclocked)

Once I applied those clocks, the PC started freezing. Then the screen just went black after a few seconds. I rushed to uninstall MSI Afterburner during boot... had to perform a Hard Reboot twice. Is my card fried now?

P.S.
Don't attack me. I know I shouldn't have touched it. It's like trying to run a marathon without training. (I just wanted Crysis at 60 FPS on high settings)😱