NVIDIA overclocking,tweaking and cooling....All info you need.

Modding vs. Overclocking !
I just read on a website that a Geforce Fx5900 can be modded to become a 5950 ! I understand that flashing the bios is risky, but can overclocking the 5900 to 5950 speeds give the same results ??

 

That is true,but the hardware is still stressed the same as if you were to just overclock it.Besides the 5950 is a newer card.I read the overclocking forum on thse two cards and if they could match the maximum overclock with one another.The answer was no,the 5950 is designed to run at its stock clock speed therfore it can handle a higher overclock then the 5900u anyday.Unless of course you watercool the cards however,but even so the 5950 has less limitations.All I can suggest is,buy a 5950 if your trying to o/c the 5900u to those speeds.In the longrun it will last longer.http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031023/nvidia-nv38-nv36-09.html Hopefully this link will help.

 

GF2 MX 400 64MB

Hey Funky Monkey thanks for all this good information!!
I Overclocked my GF2 400MX from 175 MHZ to 230 MHZ,
does it makes alot of difference you think? I mean in gameplay.
and do i have to get an extra cooling fan?
(only got one)

 

Nice post "Funky monkey",
My memory Speed is O/Cd to reach 585MHz , @ 587 Mhz image Artifacts and black triangles start to appear after 5 Minutes from playing an intensive game, My Question is IF istick that water cooling system 2 my card will the Memory Frequency Go much higher without any image Corruption ?
And since my card's memory chips doesn't carry heatsinks, if i cut processor's heatsink & attach it to the chips on both side ,Could i increase the Mem. speed to another Limit ?

 

Wonder MaN...
If you are getting artifacts at 587 i would suggest you keep it at 380 yo be safe.
and yes it would increase your overclock a bit if you attach homemeade ramsinks ( like what i did )

 

updated...
More update comming in 2 days about funda of watercooling.

 

you tha man funky

 

yo funkymonkey, could you please give me a working email address of yours? I haven't been able to get in touch with your bro ! please, this is urgent

 

how do i force ps1.4 ???? i cant find that option in rive tuner

 

Soz this is abit late in coming but Funky that thread is so good Im book marking it, you'd have to be a moron not to I reckon. Im waiting for more great info frm you on this. Cheers dude.

 

Nice post man! just wanted to post a question how to overclock my Geforce 2 TI

Gonna increase with 5 mhz thankx m8!

 

n1, ill read later

 

With Rivia Tuner when over clocking there is a "Low level Hardware Overclocking" section with core clock and memory clock and the other section "Driver hardware overclocking" section also with core clock and memory clock what is the difference???

Dave

 

Hi lads got a question for those who know there graphic card stuff.
I got a new system and got a gforce 6800GT 256mb card and was really happy with it, I could set all my games on max no problems and it looked fine.

Anyway ran 3dmark03 and compared my marks and was shocked when I got 4500 and people were getting 13000. anyway I thought right I have the card on max.

Antialiasing 8X

Anisotropic filtering 16x

And vertical sync on.

So I turned them to application controlled and got over 11000 marks in 3dmark.

I also ran battlefield Vet and when I play single player with 64 Ai players the game runs a bit choppy with the card on max but flawless on application controlled.

Am I missing out on graphics quality with the setting on application control or should I turn them on but on a lower setting. I see little difference on application control apart from the frame rate goes through the roof.

Is this more a game dependant thing. I still have the game settings on there very highest.

Any advice

Also my card is the Galaxy version and I run it box standard, it came with this over-clocking utility that has auto over-clock on this? Can I trust this utility to get the most out my card or should I just leave it.

I had it on core clock 415 mhz and it seemed to work great but I was not happy with it on that so went back to 370Mhz. I did before I read the great first post, so I jumped up 45mhz not the recommended 5mhz at a time.

I would only run it on auto probably but I imagine that to damage it you would have to run it on a silly setting for a time well over my stupidly done 415mhz?

Any feedback would be great as this is the place to ask

Sav.

 

wow it's weird sav u must be getting uber high performances with a such card and such cpu , i have a little question about grfx card OC , is it possible to know the temperature of old grfx cards without a thermometer ?

 

my mx4000 just hit an stable 330/530, from stock 274/286, 32 bit/7ns memory.

at 330/555 it shows artifacts after 3 minutes of benchies/gaming

at 335/575 it would last 2 minutes before start showing artifacts in windows

at 340/600... ehmmm-- windows & the card start to puke....

at 400/400 eh--- they start to puke...

 

Low level o/c is just what it says.. o/c via bios, iirc.
Driver level o/c is software.

If I remember correctly, driver level o/c can/will? reduce increase latency for o/c, low level does not.

 

Officially it does void warranty when you overclock but you can as always work around this problem by taking some simple precautions which i will tell ya along this article.

You say this on the top of the original post but you don't mention it again. could you please explain how to do this.

Btw. I use Coolbits 2 to overclock, it just modifies the nvidia drivers to do it, and it autotests the maximum you can safely overclock your card. My nvidia 6610xl went from 400/800 to 505/1010, with no problems.

 

Is that auto-test really reliable though? Mine also got a nice jump, but not sure if I should stick to that, or slowly o/c at 5mhz increments.

 

hi,

I have a 5900XT and the Rivatuner autotest fails at GPU clock beyond than 417 Mhz or Memory clock beyond 797 Mhz... Why is this oc so poor?