I have an ati radeon X1950 PRO agp video card...the core clock speed is 574 Mhz...the memory clock speed is 689 Mhz...i as wanting to overclock the core clock speed to maybe 600 Mhz and the Memory clock speed to 700 Mhz....now some things you need to know this card has no thermometer to tell how hot it is...i know it doesnt get hot because i ran a stress test on it and checked the heat touching it and it felt around maybe 40-50 degrees Celsius...Now i am smart enough to now that bumping it up to the desired speeds wont raise the temp too much but i kind of want you guy's opinion...and I also need to know what program to overclock it with...or even if it is possible to overclock this card...any help would be great...thanks
Overclocking video card
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I would say that is a good safe OC. I once had a Gigabyte 6600GT 500/1000 OC --> 587/1250 on Stock cooling. I would not recommend going that high in overclocking, but your 600/700 should be fine.
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ati cards work fine when you overclock it check the cd that came with it and run the overclocker thing that comes with it then raise it manually a little more till it distorts your screen restart the computer and change it to just under what distorted your screen and youll be fine (make sure you have sufficient cooling)
well lafinass i figured that the BSOD is caused from sound drivers so i dont think that it would have much effect on the BSOD...but like i said before i am not a genuis at hard ware....i am mainly software but anyway wat do you think i should do?
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Well, the problem is that overclocking is inherently de-stabilizing to a system. Generally overclocking a machine or component entails incrementally increasing some variable until you start to see system instability and then you go a notch lower and stress test it to make sure it stays stable. If your system is ALREADY unstable, then your baseline is screwed. How do you know when a hard lock is being caused by your latest incrementation in overclocking or by pre-existing issues?
Admittedly, overclocking your video card is significantly less complicated than a total system overclocking since there are only two variables, but I'd still suggest that you have a stable system to begin with before you start pushing any components past stock speeds.
Admittedly, overclocking your video card is significantly less complicated than a total system overclocking since there are only two variables, but I'd still suggest that you have a stable system to begin with before you start pushing any components past stock speeds.
ok well i guess i wont overclock until i get this BSOD thing straightened out...it makes sense not to overclock it right now anyway...but if i do in the future plan to overclock it to the desired speeds...will it make that big of a difference? and if not then what should the numbers be to tell a difference?
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Personally, I purchased pre-overclocked video cards, simply because I don't feel like dealing with it. It varies from card to card and your main limitations are the voltage to the components on the board (a lot of video cards don't let you vary these) and the cooling option you have on it. If you can't alter the voltage, you're limited in how much you can overclock simply because you can't feed the memory and GPU more power. If you don't have enough cooling, you'll see artifacting if not total lockups from heat spikes.
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Well, the problem is that overclocking is inherently de-stabilizing to a system. Generally overclocking a machine or component entails incrementally increasing some variable until you start to see system instability and then you go a notch lower and stress test it to make sure it stays stable. If your system is ALREADY unstable, then your baseline is screwed. How do you know when a hard lock is being caused by your latest incrementation in overclocking or by pre-existing issues?
Admittedly, overclocking your video card is significantly less complicated than a total system overclocking since there are only two variables, but I'd still suggest that you have a stable system to begin with before you start pushing any components past stock speeds.
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He's right. I've overclocked my AGP slot, my RAM, my Processor, and my video card. Unless you have a sophisticated cooling setup however, your system continues to become more unstable the more you OC.
Of all of them, the video card was probably the easiest to do. I've had great results with ATI tool for the video card and Ntune for my mobo tweaks.
My card, an ATI radeon x1300 XGE came factory overclocked and I was only able to slightly increase the core and memory rates. It ultimately ended up not making much of a difference at all. Let us know how things work for you.
Well, the problem is that overclocking is inherently de-stabilizing to a system. Generally overclocking a machine or component entails incrementally increasing some variable until you start to see system instability and then you go a notch lower and stress test it to make sure it stays stable. If your system is ALREADY unstable, then your baseline is screwed. How do you know when a hard lock is being caused by your latest incrementation in overclocking or by pre-existing issues?
Admittedly, overclocking your video card is significantly less complicated than a total system overclocking since there are only two variables, but I'd still suggest that you have a stable system to begin with before you start pushing any components past stock speeds.
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He's right. I've overclocked my AGP slot, my RAM, my Processor, and my video card. Unless you have a sophisticated cooling setup however, your system continues to become more unstable the more you OC.
Of all of them, the video card was probably the easiest to do. I've had great results with ATI tool for the video card and Ntune for my mobo tweaks.
My card, an ATI radeon x1300 XGE came factory overclocked and I was only able to slightly increase the core and memory rates. It ultimately ended up not making much of a difference at all. Let us know how things work for you.
That won't affect performance (or it will be such a low change that you won't notice) at those OCs. Download RivaTuner and increase coreclock/mem (look up tutorials) by 5MHz and then play for two hours of whatever game you want. When it is no longer stable, go back to the last OC and that will be your OC ceiling.
