8800GT ALPHA DOG

rnuk · 10 Dec 2008 at 09:43

How do you overclock the 8800GT in bios? using ASUS RAMPAGE Formula x48 chipset?

PhatEd · 11 Dec 2008 at 11:14

You don't overclock your graphics card using your bios. If your using an nVidia card then your best option is to use a program called RivaTuner. Link can be found in the useful applications section of one of the stickies in this section. Alternatively if your using Windows XP you can use coolbits which adds some more overclocking and temp menus into your nvidia control panel

The Halk · 11 Dec 2008 at 12:50

Just to be exact... and sorry if this comes across as pedantic. You can overlock it using a BIOS, but it means burning an adjusted BIOS to the eprom on the card. It's for serious overclockers only, and most people here (myself included) consider it a step too far.

Angst · 11 Dec 2008 at 12:53

use a tool called nibitor "Nvidia Bios Editor"
it overclocks and saves it to the bios, really esay to use

The Halk · 11 Dec 2008 at 12:59

phill0i said:
use a tool called nibitor "Nvidia Bios Editor"
it overclocks and saves it to the bios, really esay to use

Don't!

PhatEd · 11 Dec 2008 at 14:26

The Halk said:
Don't!

Bad experience? Lol

The Halk · 11 Dec 2008 at 14:27

PhatEd said:
Bad experience? Lol

Not at all. It's just extremely bad advice to tell someone new to overclocking to overwrite their graphics card BIOS.

PhatEd · 11 Dec 2008 at 14:31

True enough!

RaV · 11 Dec 2008 at 16:07

download and install RivaTuner from guru3d.com - theres no need to go to altering the bios if you just want to overclock it a bit.

decto · 11 Dec 2008 at 21:13

I'd look for:

EVGA Precision Tool

By far the easiest GPU overclocking tool I've played with in a while.

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rnuk · 12 Dec 2008 at 10:06

thanks for the advice