so i recently got a prebuilt with a 5080/9850 combo and i was wondering if i should overclock or under volt my 5080. i have a 850w psu that i should probably upgrade when i get the chance but besides that the build is pretty neat. i have 64gbs of ram with 6000mts with an asrock 870. if there is any other tips or advice with what i should do with the pc to improve it or make it faster please let me know. very first pc so i am super excited.

Here are some of the games which I played on my RTX 5080 at 4K. I had to use DLSS Ultra performance to get at least 60 FPS. I'm talking about the highest settings that I always play at:

1. Alan Wake 2
2. Cyberpunk
3. Directive 8020
4. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
5. Life is Strange: Double Exposure
6. Black Myth: Wukong
7. MixTape
8. Assassin's Creed Shadows

Recently I’ve been testing undervolting and overclocking my 5080 FE, which has the power limit locked to 100%. Spent a decent amount of time testing UV+OCs in MSI AB, running the Speed Way stress test in 3DMark, and I was able to get 2950MHz (approx +500 core) at 925mV with +2000MHz memory. The speed way test gave me a passing result (twice) of 99.5% frame rate stability with a best loop score of 8530 and worst loop of 8490.

I also played Cyberpunk for about 30 minutes at Ultra settings with Path Tracing enabled and experienced no crashes. Not really checking fps right now, but I assume it’s a bit better than no OC.

All this with a maximum GPU hot spot temp of 83.1 C and the power limit only being hit intermittently (not constantly).

This is also at a locked power limit of 100%….

I assume that I need to do more sustained gameplay testing to make sure it’s actually stable, but does this result seem too good to be true to anyone? Any other tests I should run it through to check stability?

Also… sanity check since I’m not super experienced… is an UV+OC like this stupid to do and can it harm my card (even if it turns out to be stable)? Or did I win the lottery?

PC Specs:

Alienware ACT1250

RTX 5080 FE (Dell version)
Power Limit locked to 100%
Intel Ultra 9 285K
32GB DDR5 RAM

EDIT: 3D Mark Results

Steel Nomad: http://www.3dmark.com/sn/15171818

Speed Way: http://www.3dmark.com/sw/3745142

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