The other day I overclocked my videocard (Asus Geforce Ti4200)
and in the middle of the process I realized I hadn't done enough research before I started to fiddle around with it, and that I didn't have a clue what I was doing. That's exactly what all guides on the subject warns you not to do, because it can damage your system.
My question is: If you overclock a card incorrectly, does the damage occur instantly, or does the new setting have to be applied for quite som time before the temperature rises to a damaging level? And: If the damage has already happened, is there an easy way to find out, or do I just have to guess if a system crash is due to a damage to the videocard or just a software-failure? Will a hardware damage always show up in "Device manager" or are there cases where the video card could be damaged, and it still wouldn't show up in device manager?
I just left the overclock on for maybe 10mins or so, but still I'm worried that I have damaged my system in some way. My Windows XP installation takes extremely long time to close down, but I don't know if this is due to a hardware failure or just a badly programmed program I've installed (what kind of errors can one expect?). I would appreciate all help on the subject.... Thank you.
-Hal
and in the middle of the process I realized I hadn't done enough research before I started to fiddle around with it, and that I didn't have a clue what I was doing. That's exactly what all guides on the subject warns you not to do, because it can damage your system.
My question is: If you overclock a card incorrectly, does the damage occur instantly, or does the new setting have to be applied for quite som time before the temperature rises to a damaging level? And: If the damage has already happened, is there an easy way to find out, or do I just have to guess if a system crash is due to a damage to the videocard or just a software-failure? Will a hardware damage always show up in "Device manager" or are there cases where the video card could be damaged, and it still wouldn't show up in device manager?
I just left the overclock on for maybe 10mins or so, but still I'm worried that I have damaged my system in some way. My Windows XP installation takes extremely long time to close down, but I don't know if this is due to a hardware failure or just a badly programmed program I've installed (what kind of errors can one expect?). I would appreciate all help on the subject.... Thank you.
-Hal