Incredibly terrible overclocks with MSI GTX 670 PE/OC

Been using my GTX 670 PE/OC for about a month now. Since the card was supposedly made with overclocking in mind, I decided to give overclocking a try. To my astonishment, the card is perhaps the worst card I've ever had for overclocking. Using MSI afterburner with voltage turned all the way up and power limit at 114%, I could barely overclock to +20 on the core and +600 on the memory. Even at that overclock, BF3 is crashing all the time, especially when I'm doing well. Its incredibly frustrating. The only reason on got the Power Edition from MSI was because it was supposedly designed with overclocking in mind. Had I known it would be so terrible at overclocking, I wouldn't have gotten it. Am I overclocking this card wrong or is this card a dud?

Overclocking is a matter of the individual sample. One might clock great while another of the same model won't. A great board design is useless if the gpu is just a bad draw. The memory doing + 600 Mhz is an absoluely astonishing clockrate only very few GTX670 or 680s would make.
Note that overvolting the GPU is locked due to Nvidia forcing MSI to and any set voltage will result in no more than 1.175v unless you have an unlocked vbios and the right Afterburner version (2.2.3 or 2.2.5 beta 1). Please read >>How to use MSI Afterburner<<
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I have the same issue with my GTX 670 PE/OC.
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My MSI GTX 670 started getting the following error:
Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
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I uninstalled the display driver using DDU in safemode, and reinstalled the recommend driver.
I moved the board to another machine, the heaven benchmark had the same problem.
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MOVED: Display driver stopped responding and has recovered. MSI GTX 670 Power Edition

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Quote from: flobelix on 10-January-13, 03:31:32
What should that mean? Decreasing power limit means donwnclocking and preventing boost . That has nothing to do with the decreased power consumption you reported of. Lower real power consuption does not decrease boost clockrates but enable full boost.
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http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1738711&mpage=1&print=true
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Dear sir/madam
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