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There's a few tricks you can do in overclocking where you replace shunt resistors. It bypasses power limit protections by making the board think it's drawing less power than it is.
That and replacing dead caps is about the only reason to touch a soldering iron to a GPU.
Only time I manually overclocket a PC was with a leaded pencil in the good ole days of AMD Thunderbird