# Damaged GPU from 150MHz Overclock?

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**Tags:** rendering\
**Created:** [February 25, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/damaged-gpu-from-150mhz-overclock/1364166 "2022-02-25T19:12:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Basspig](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/basspig/32/1387666_2.png) [@Basspig](https://blenderartists.org/u/Basspig)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/damaged-gpu-from-150mhz-overclock/1364166/1 "2022-02-25T19:12:27Z")

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Blender, running on my new RTX3090, had been amazingly reliable since December. I could do overnight renders of this scene and it would always complete successfully. I started experimenting with MSI Afterburner to see if I can squeeze a little more performance out. I’d been doing a lot of renders with an 80MHz overclock with no problem. I pushed it to 100, then finally up to 150. That’s when Blender froze. So I rebooted and dropped the overclock. The Blender file was corrupted and would not open (first time that happened to me in 2 years of using Blender). So I opened the backup copy. I’m trying to render that, and even a single frame render fails now with the error screen posted below.  
Bear in mind, the GPU has 24GB VRAM and the project is using 11GB out of the 24GB.  
I can no longer render in Cycles. Did I damage the GPU from a 150MHz overclock?

![image](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/6/b/5/6b50ce13031b253c9fd8cf9a1bbc7cf7fac7552c.png)

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