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best software to overclock nvidia

redshadows

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As title says I need to overclock a Nvidia card, whats the best software.
9800gx2 btw
Would kinda like to keep an eye on temps as well
 
No help clocking her, painless really, funny issue right enough.

I had a fully stable 4GHz on my Q6600 (5 hour prime) I benched my 3870 at that for a 3dmark06 of 13904 (nice for a 3870)

The 9800gx2 beats that almost at stock on my processor but the bottleneck was only letting me hit 12994.

I went up to 3.6GHz and topped 17900. overclocked the card with MSI (as you said, again thanks) light card overclock took me up to 18744.
Now I thought, overclock the cpu to 4GHz and see if I get rid of any bottleneck, with the jump in scores I see the Q6600 is bottlenecking even at 3.6.

Now I can bench @ 4GHz on my 3870 but not with this 9800gx2, I tested this just now and my 3870 will bench at that GHz.

Didnt know graphics cards could do this....any ideas anyone?
 
redshadows said:
No help clocking her, painless really, funny issue right enough.

I had a fully stable 4GHz on my Q6600 (5 hour prime) I benched my 3870 at that for a 3dmark06 of 13904 (nice for a 3870)

The 9800gx2 beats that almost at stock on my processor but the bottleneck was only letting me hit 12994.

I went up to 3.6GHz and topped 17900. overclocked the card with MSI (as you said, again thanks) light card overclock took me up to 18744.
Now I thought, overclock the cpu to 4GHz and see if I get rid of any bottleneck, with the jump in scores I see the Q6600 is bottlenecking even at 3.6.

Now I can bench @ 4GHz on my 3870 but not with this 9800gx2, I tested this just now and my 3870 will bench at that GHz.

Didnt know graphics cards could do this....any ideas anyone?
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You're getting higher scores in 3D mark 06 as it's quite a cpu limited benchmark, try running vantage that'll give your video card a better workout.

As for your stability the 9800GX2 draws a lot more power than the 3870 so could be a possible power supply issue.

What are the rest of your components like? PSU, memory, mainboard etc.

4GHz on a Q6600 is quite impressive what sort of voltages are you running through it?
 
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