gpu OC'ing

[Makunouchi]

Hey again,

There doesnt seem to be many guides or much material out there about gpu OC'ing, at least compared to cpu OC'ing. I'm reasonably well versed with cpu OC'ing but have no experience at all with gpu OC'ing, apart from to know its pretty easy to fry the card (or so ive been told), so i dont really know how far you can push certain cards, or which values you can raise the most.

Here is a SS of my efforts after 30 mins or so (after a few screen freezes...). I got these values pretty stable and tested them on a bunch of games, and i'm not getting any artifacts or anything of that nature.

So much questions are mainly, is this likely to be stable on the card i have? and hich value can i most likely push further? And what sort of temps should i be watching out for (how high should i let them go?) gpu temps atm are about 52/53 under 5 mins load.

Any response appreciated.

 

[Makunouchi]

Thanks for the reply. I've been using Rivatuner so far, but it seems i cant actually push those values much higher before i start getting screen freezes, but im not sure which value it is im pushing too far. Can you suggest which one its most likely to be?

 

[Makunouchi]

Hmmm thanks for your help. After the past hour of playing it seems that gpu's are a lot more flakey than cpu's, and you can't really push them much futher than stock settings, but ill play around a bit more and tell you how it goes, i'll post some 3Dmark results as well once the thing has finish downloading, maybe someone can give me and idea if they are normal or not.

 

[Makunouchi]

Well i ran 3Dmark06 with the settings i posted before, and got 10604.

The thing is, during the cpu section i was getting 0-1 fps... Is that normal? my E6600 is running at 3.3GHz.

Comment welcome.

(i also tried running it with stock setting but it wouldnt let me upload it to get the results, does 3Dmark only let you submit 1 result or something unless you register?)

 

[Makunouchi]

It peaked 3 at one point!

 

[Makunouchi]

Well i've officially given up with GPU overclocking. I cant seem to get any sort of overclock truely stable, and now im getting crashes in games while running stock settings, no idea why thats happening.

Anyway, it seems that you get such a tiny tiny improvement from a lot of time invested compared to what you get from CPU overclocking. Guess i'll just wait for a new NVIDIA card to come out, or if i keep getting these crashes i might have to buy another card earlier than that.