OCing Ti4200, best program?

gingo

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I used RivaTuner before and I really liked it. Is RivaTuner still one of the best programs for OCing my Ti4200 ?

I am asking because I haven't been into PC gaming much lately and I just reformated my hard drive so my video card is running stock now, there might be some better utilities out there.

 

wannaoc

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• Jun 13, 2004

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I'm mainly an ATi person but doesn't coolbits make it overclock? I'm wondering as well since I about to pick one of these up. *Subscribes*

 

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gingo

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I tried Coolbits before RivaTuner and I liked Riva a lot better. I may just download Riva again unless someone informs me of something better.

 

Sturm

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• Jun 13, 2004

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You could just not bother with any of this BIOS flash or OC software and take the easier option.

Open notepad and type the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak]
"Coolbits"=dword:ffffffff
"NvCplEnableHardwarePage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableAGPSettingsPage"=dword:00000001



Then save it as .reg then all you need to do is double click it and add it to t he registry and reboot.

Hey nony nony you now have gpu and mem oc in your display settings.

 

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gingo

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I normally dont like messing with the registry, is doing that completely safe?

 

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gingo said:

I normally dont like messing with the registry, is doing that completely safe?

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thats what Coolbits does, its perfectly safe, but you could save your registry before you change it, i never found the need to because installing new drivers just changes it back to normal.

i like Coolbits more because it simply UNLOCKS the Nvidia OC tab in the advanced setting............... versus installing Rivatuner, which is a seperate program. to me the less invasive the better.

 

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AFAIK all tweakprograms rivatuner,geforcetweakutility, etc changes stuff in the registry to get things done. When you enable oc'ing of the gpu in a program. The program changes the "coolbits" in the reg. I personally like GeforceTweakUtility. It says it doesn't support drivers higer than 26.xx something, but it works great with the new drivers too. Have tested it up to 56.xx.

 

ket

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right now im on riva tuner coz coolbits started myseriously resetting to stock after a restart.....guess what? it still resets speeds after a restart.....time to format i guess....when i can be botherd.

 

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i always used coolbits never had a problem with it

 

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gingo

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Ok, I just did the coolbits registry thing.. So far so good.

 

MrBozack

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• Jun 14, 2004

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gingo said:

Ok, I just did the coolbits registry thing.. So far so good.

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A vast number of nvidia card owners have found; that after every second restart, their memory frequencies would reset.

I too had this problem with hardpage (coolbit enabler program)
I ran the GeForce tweak utility and it locked them permanently for me.

I still cannot get 6x.xx drivers to even apply overclock frequencies.

The "Apply" button is "greyed out" and no overclock happens.