First time Overclocking

deadmeatdan · 10 Aug 2011 at 10:21

Hi there My machine is running a core2duo 3.0ghz, with 4gb of ddr2 and i recently bought the 1gb GTX 460 card from gainward.

I also bought a coolermaster rs750 GX-series psu

i've installed msi afterburner and kombustor.

What are the next steps? anything i should take into consideration before i go tweaking those bars?

deadmeatdan · 10 Aug 2011 at 10:58

sorry i'm overclocking my GPU.

Default setting are:

Core voltage: 987
Core clock: 700
Shader clock: 1400
Memory clock: 1800

deadmeatdan · 10 Aug 2011 at 11:28

your card is the 768mb version, surely there's a difference in the optimum overclocking speeds?

deadmeatdan · 10 Aug 2011 at 11:47

i've never overclocked anything before, is there a method i can follow?

ie: tweak this first, test with kombustor, then tweak this.

What temperatures are safe and what arent?

it idles at 40c with the fan on auto.

deadmeatdan · 10 Aug 2011 at 11:55

something strange is going on.. not sure what..

I upgraded from a 8800gts this morning, but now when i try to play bad company 2 (which ran perfectly fine before) it lags when loading the menu screen and i get severely low fps in game too...

strange...

i ran a whole number of benchmarks too and they all came out with a really low score, and average frame rates of 1-20fps which is terrible.

any ideas what could be wrong?

deadmeatdan · 10 Aug 2011 at 12:17

thats the first thing i did.

i'll keep looking for solutions for now

deadmeatdan · 10 Aug 2011 at 13:18

what is a safe GPU temp?

the best score i've got out of my card so far was running it at:

Core voltage: 1000
Core clock: 850
Shader clock: 1700
Memory clock: 2000

but the card reached 70c on the DX11 kombustor at 1680x1050 with 4xMSAA

is that safe?

or should I aim at a lower temp?