Hi there,
I am new to the world of overclocking, and have just discovered nVidia's Coolbits feature. It's pretty awesome, but I seem to have run into either a limitation or a bug:
When I turn on the manual overclocking settings, it makes me test the settings before I can apply them. That's all well and good, but it seems to have some built-in limits (less than the limits of the Coolbits slidebar itself) as to how high I can drive the MHz.
The manufacturer's settings for my graphics card (GeForce Go 7900 GS) are 507 MHz for the memory clock frequency and 375 MHz for the 3D clock frequency. It finds 581-412 as the "optimum" settings. I'm able to push the sliders up to 623-432 if I increase the clock bit by bit (it won't let me do it all at once), but if I go anywhere beyond that, it will automatically reduce it after I click the "test" button. I'm pretty sure that means I can't apply higher settings... right? If so, is there any way to override this or should I not be trying? Temperature-wise, things are ok (I'm monitoring it with i8kfanGUI and I never even get "fast" fan speeds... the cooling in Dell's e1705 is great). Do I need to add more voltage or something?
Also - Do I need to keep those two clock speeds in some kind of ratio?
Finally... after I hit "apply," regardless of the settings, the sliders return to the default. I'm assuming that's just a bug...? Is there any way to know what the *real* MHz of my graphics card is at any given time, the way i8KfanGUI does it for the GPU? I can't find any utility that will do that. It'd certainly be helpful.
Thanks for your help!!
Stephen
I am new to the world of overclocking, and have just discovered nVidia's Coolbits feature. It's pretty awesome, but I seem to have run into either a limitation or a bug:
When I turn on the manual overclocking settings, it makes me test the settings before I can apply them. That's all well and good, but it seems to have some built-in limits (less than the limits of the Coolbits slidebar itself) as to how high I can drive the MHz.
The manufacturer's settings for my graphics card (GeForce Go 7900 GS) are 507 MHz for the memory clock frequency and 375 MHz for the 3D clock frequency. It finds 581-412 as the "optimum" settings. I'm able to push the sliders up to 623-432 if I increase the clock bit by bit (it won't let me do it all at once), but if I go anywhere beyond that, it will automatically reduce it after I click the "test" button. I'm pretty sure that means I can't apply higher settings... right? If so, is there any way to override this or should I not be trying? Temperature-wise, things are ok (I'm monitoring it with i8kfanGUI and I never even get "fast" fan speeds... the cooling in Dell's e1705 is great). Do I need to add more voltage or something?
Also - Do I need to keep those two clock speeds in some kind of ratio?
Finally... after I hit "apply," regardless of the settings, the sliders return to the default. I'm assuming that's just a bug...? Is there any way to know what the *real* MHz of my graphics card is at any given time, the way i8KfanGUI does it for the GPU? I can't find any utility that will do that. It'd certainly be helpful.
Thanks for your help!!
Stephen
