How Do You Overclock A Video Card?

[FunkDaMonkMan]

how do u do it?

[Yodums]

Your video card runs on core speeds and memory speeds.

You download a specific tweaking program for your card and it'll allow you to adjust those core and mem speeds up thus overclocking it.

Cooling may need to kick in if you have modern cards.

Yodums.

[flounder43]

I use powerstrip...

http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ps.htm

[Yodums]

I prefer NVMax if you were on a nVidia card.

I used it.

[Mad Butter]

I just downloaded the new drivers for my voodo 5 and it comes with the ability to overclock it on 1 of it's tabs...........i have overlcocked it quite a bit. The default settings for it were 166/220 and I have it set for 173/220..........I dont see any differnce in any games or 3dmark2000............Any ideas? I only see like a 200 point difference in 3dmark2000. What could be wrong. Should I download specifically a overlcoking software program????? Plzz help!



-evan

[funnyperson1]

Originally posted by Mad Butter
I just downloaded the new drivers for my voodo 5 and it comes with the ability to overclock it on 1 of it's tabs...........i have overlcocked it quite a bit. The default settings for it were 166/220 and I have it set for 173/220..........I dont see any differnce in any games or 3dmark2000............Any ideas? I only see like a 200 point difference in 3dmark2000. What could be wrong. Should I download specifically a overlcoking software program????? Plzz help!



-evan

thats normal....i only gain 150-200 points in 3dmarks 2k1

[Mad Butter]

Thanks man...............I'll try and push it up some more......

[CraxySerge]

Try sticking a nice HSF on it, and push it even further. I used to have a Voodoo 3, but i pushed it too far one day and may it rest in peace. Now I want to see how far I can push my GeForce 2 Ti200 64mb DDR.

[Yodums]

What you want to do when overclocking a card is try to cool it as best as possible.

You'll want to add better cooling to the core and ramsinks if necessary.

People overclocking video cards focus more on overclocking their memory speeds since people will buy newer cards for lower NS ram.

You know you reached the limit when you see artifacts, or experience freezes through intense 3d.

[Mad Butter]

Oh. i c...........Do you think I should keep my clock speed at 173/220??? the deafaut was 166.......I dont want any extra cooling because my delta fan is loud enough................ehehehehe.

[YoungstaxGx]

what are artifacts?

[RainMaQer]

Usually little white specs... or something else that just SHOULD NOT be there:D