Creative 3D Blaster 5 FX5200

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DaMouse

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• Jan 31, 2004

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ok, I have this card. I only want to overclock the card as it was a cheap card and I wanna keep warranties on the rest of my gear. its stock cooling but I can probably stick one of my 40mm fans on from an old Pentium 200MHz. I run Linux and use a utility called nvclock to overclock. I don't wanna lose this begger, anyone know what the average is?

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Damian

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• Feb 1, 2004

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Overclock until you get artifacts and/or crashes and then back down a bit. Generally you don't need to worry about losing your card.

 

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• Feb 1, 2004

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And I'm right by saying that this thing will overclock on its own without effecting the rest of the system?

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copernicus

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• Feb 1, 2004

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yes

you'll be fine, oc'ing your card won't effect the rest of your sys, just take it up a little at a time

 

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• Feb 2, 2004

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are there any decent video testing tools for Linux that I can see whats happening to the quality with (forgot how to do etcetera, to early in the morning )

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• Feb 2, 2004

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hey, I just clocked my core speed up to 310.5MHz with DDR at 405MHz, the passive heatsink is quite hot to touch but I can keep my finger on it forever so not that hot.. Is that ok?

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