Re: Overclocking Gpus
Eh, it's an nVidia setup. Download coolbits and use the one overclocking utility built into nVidia's drivers that coolbits unhides.
Unless you're almost playable at those settings as is though, I wouldn't expect miracles. If you're getting 5 fps now, you ain't gonna overclock your way to 30.
Re: Overclocking Gpus
Here are general articles about Overclocking!
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/12/...t-1/index.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/..._guide_part_2/
P.S. I don't think overcloking in GPUs is worth it.
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Re: Overclocking Gpus
Without some serious modding to the cooling on the graphics cards memory and gpus, overclocking is generally not worth it. If you're going to push for a few extra MHz core clock then you'll probably end up generating an end result of an extra 1fps, now and again, and alot of extra heat and expense. In my experience it's not worth it, and I've been modding and ocing Graphics cards since the old Voodoo days. I've given up on it long ago after seeing the error of my ways.
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Re: Overclocking Gpus
Basically what overclocking is that all cpus are sold listed with a given speed, but that is misleading since technically any cpu can run at any speed. That given speed is what the cpu will be able to run at the very minimal settings in regard to power supplied and the cooling system in order for normal people without crazy liquid cooling systems and awesome power supplies to run their cpu as stable as possible. By overclocking, you are forcing the cpu to run at a higher speed than normal, but you better have a good power supply as well as very nice fans or even better, liquid cooling. Be warned though that overclocking it too much can burn out the cpu and lead to all sorts of bad thing, but on the other hand it can be awesome since i heard that some crazy japanese guy managed to boot windows xp at arount 7 gigahertz by overclocking.
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Re: Overclocking Gpus
That's all nice and dandy but such overclocking needs a lot of money and people who have that much cvan afford to always buy the newest hardware anyway. And what is the sense of breaking the guarantee to get 300 instead of 100 fps in Quake 4? If it burns, it costs you even more, I once forgot to remove the plastic cover underneath a new CPU cooler so I have made a painful experience which I don't want to repeat.Originally Posted by Xdeathfire
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Re: Overclocking Gpus
Exactly. It is often cheaper to buy new hardware than it is to invest in all of the equipment necessary to OC your existing hardware. To be honest I think the days of OC are long gone. CPUs are no longer all about clockspeed, graphics card GPUs are going the same way. On the whole there is alot of myth and legend surrounding OCing. You will find plenty of reports of the successes but few about the failures. Also those that went through the process and spent the money to get an extra 10 fps for an hour before it crashed and they had to back the clock speed off again, will rarely tell you that. They set out to gain 2GHz or more from a 1.8GHz cpu but only got it up to 1.9GHz (+100Mhz). This is the reality of OCing not the tall tales of tripling or doubling the clock speed. The old Radeon 9xxx softmods were often worthwhile and back in the day some of the old celerons could be very substantially overclocked, the rest is a myth or a passtime for curious hobbyists.That's all nice and dandy but such overclocking needs a lot of money and people who have that much cvan afford to always buy the newest hardware anyway. And what is the sense of breaking the guarantee to get 300 instead of 100 fps in Quake 4? If it burns, it costs you even more, I once forgot to remove the plastic cover underneath a new CPU cooler so I have made a painful experience which I don't want to repeat.
Last edited by caravel; 01-17-2007 at 13:24.
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Re: Overclocking Gpus
GPUs are one thing, CPUs are another. You won't always get 2ghz, but you can get quite respectable gains, especially out of the lower end processors.
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